Doreen Hawkins

Doreen Mary Beadle (13 July 1919 – 15 June 2013), also known as Doreen Lawrence and by her married name Doreen Hawkins, was a British actress.

Life Hawkins was born in Southampton in 1919 and by the time she was four she had appeared on the stage. At the age of fifteen she was touring with an acting troupe where she was cast as the flirty teenager. She appeared under the name Doreen Lawrence. This was the start of her time in Repertory theatre where she would learn new parts and get regular work. When she was eighteen she was engaged to fellow actor Peter Cushing, but she decided not to marry him. She said that she broke off the engagement because he would bring his parents on dates and he was too easily moved to tears.

She belonged to an ENSA unit that was headed by Colonel Jack Hawkins.

The war ended in 1945 and she married Jack Hawkins.

Her husband died in 1973. and died in 2013. Hawkins and Doreen remained married until his death in 1973. Together they had three children, Caroline (b. 1955), Andrew (1950), and Nicholas (1948) Hawkins.