Mary Steele was an English actress, was born was born in Hampstead and was evacuated to Cornwall during the war, where she went to school. After matriculating, she went to ballet school then to the Bristol Old Vic and five other repertory companies before graduating into films and the West End theatre. Aged 29, slender, with brown hair and blue eyes, Mary Steele played Jane Harris, a psychiatric welfare worker in The Human Jungle (1963), as well as other roles in Girls at Sea (1958) and The Inbetween Age (1958). She was previously married to Australian writer and director, Don Sharp.