Tessie O’Shea was born in Cardiff in 1913. At a young age she became a performer in British music halls. She performer in Blackpool in the 1930′s. She began appearing in movies in 1948 with “Holidays With Pay”. Her other films include “The Shiralee” which was made in Australia in 1957 with Peter Finch. Noel Coward brought her to Broadway in 1963 to star in “The Girl Who Came to Supper” for which she won a Tony for feature player. The following year she appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, the night the Beatles made their U.S. television debut. In 1966 she was cast in the U.S. film “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming” as the town postmistress. Her last film was the Disney musical “Bedknobs and Broomsticks” with Angela Lansbury in 1971. Tessie O’Shea died in Florida in 1995 at the age of 82.