UK stars pay tribute to legendary Cork-born drama teacher Anna Scher

Born and schooled in Cork, the Jewish actress and mentor came from a family of well-known Leeside dentists 
UK stars pay tribute to legendary Cork-born drama teacher Anna Scher

Cork-born Anna Scher with pupils outside her community-based drama school, The Anna Scher Children's Theatre, on Barnsbury Road, London, in 1977. Picture: Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Anna Scher, the Cork-born founder of the Anna Scher Theatre arts school in Islington, London, passed away in the early hours of Monday morning. 

Born in 1944, and a former pupil of St Angela's College, Ms Scher was a member of Cork's small Jewish community. 

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