Patricia Lawlor Hayes(1909–1998), actress, was born on 22 December 1909 at 128 Sternhold Avenue, the daughter of George Frederick Hayes, an Irish protestant (who converted to Catholicism) working as a civil service clerk in the Admiralty, a job he hated, and his wife, Florence Alice Lawlor, a mother who was keen to achieve her own stage ambitions through her daughter. The family later lived at 129 Pathfield Road
Patricia Hayes studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where she won the Bancroft gold medal in 1928, her judges being Dame Edith Evans, Sir Gerald Du Maurier, and Frank Cellier.