Doris M.F. Bohnam

Born on 4th January 1932 Doris M.F. Bohnam first became interested in a life on the stage when she was just 4-years old. Her father a theatre manager used to take young Doris to the theatre with him on weeknights, it was there where she became fascinated with the glitz and glam of show business. When she was 17-years old Doris was asked to audition for the role of 'Christabel' in the play 'The Star-Wagon'. After 3-weeks on the stage Doris slipped and broke her back resulting in 6-years of rehabilitation and intensive surgeries. Doris would make a comeback to the stage when she was 28-years old as an understudy for actress Beryl Reid. However, in 1956, Doris would be offered the chance to go to Hollywood but at the same time her father became very ill and she stayed in the UK to care for him. With the death of her father in 1962 Doris soon hit the bottle and became entangled in the hippy movement sweeping the UK in the 1960s. Doris wouldn't be heard of again until the early 1980s when she resurfaced in small theatre productions in Northern theatres in the UK. In the late 1980s and early 1990s Doris would appear in a number of TV commercials and was offered a role in a Channel 4 soap opera. However, when producers found out that Doris had an affair with a prominent UK producer working for rival Granada TV, Doris would be dropped from the soap just days before her first day on set. Doris went into retirement in the early 2000s until being sought out by Cult Screenings UK ltd to star in the title role of their Dark Ditties Series 'Mrs. Wiltshire'. Filming her scenes in December 2017, 'Mrs. Wiltshire' was meant to be Doris' comeback role and after impressing the producers she was already inline to star in Dark Ditties Episode 4 'Band on the Run' in late-2018. However, on 2nd January 2018 at the age of 85, two days shy of her 86th birthday Doris suffered a major heart attack in her home in London and died three-hours later in hospital of heart failure. Doris was an exceptional performer who never got the break she deserved and died months before seeing her first starring role of 'Mrs. Wiltshire' being released.