Jean Heard has had a successful film, television, and theatre career She started work in summer shows and pantomimes with such stars as Jimmy Tarbuck and Cilla Black, she travelled to Sharjah and appeared in BBC’s “When I see an Elephant Fly” based on Gerry Cottle’s circus. She has appeared in theatre from Alan Ayckbourn’s Relatively Speaking, to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and played Susan in No Sex Please We’re British at The Strand in the West End. She toured in a 3 hander comedy sketch show called Mutton about menopausal women, which se co-wrote before the menopause becamefashionable! Jean’s one-woman show has also been ‘on Broadway.
West End actress Jean is best known to cruisers as the main presenter on the cruise TV channel Doris Visits which has had over two million views.
Jean played the character Doris in an e web series and she twice won the New York We Love Soaps number 1 actress award. Doris had a spin-off travel show, and she still presents Doris Visits. The films are ship tours and port guides on the Doris Visits Cruise TV Channel… if you have not subscribed, please pop over and have a look and save, like, feature, or make it a channel on your smart TV with the YouTube app. Jean has done a lot of film and TV and most of her time is now spent presenting shows and corporate films. She has twice played at the Edinburgh Festival and was in the Edinburgh Film Festival winner – the movie Grass Arena, with Oscar winner Mark Rylance. She has her own one-woman show, Royal Mistresses, which is often seen on ships. Let’s assume that makes them cruisers… more than a few times a year.
