Article: Men, Marlon and me; STEPHANIE BEACHAM played the tough schemer in Dynasty, but off stage it was close friend Marlon Brando who protected her from the Hollywood snakepit. She tells DAVID WIGG why other men have failed to match up.

Byline: DAVID WIGG

Stephanie Beacham first appeared on our TV screens as the tough but glamorous Sable Colby in Dynasty 15 years ago.

Brought in as a rival to Joan Collins' wicked Alexis, the role turned Stephanie into a TV diva. Since then, she has become the top dog Phyl Oswyn in ITV's award-winning prison drama series Bad Girls, in which her character is serving five years for fraud. This month she plays another manipulative hostess extraordinaire in the play Dinner, a black comedy which also stars Gaby Roslin and Louise Jameson. 'I do feel that I have another venomous creature in me,' she says.

'This one I'm playing is desiccated and rude, ...

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