Overview
- The Royal Variety Charity announced her passing and said she would be missed by the wider theatrical family, with no cause disclosed.
- Actor Peter Kosta remembered his close friend as "very funny" and "very feisty" and recalled her generosity early in his career.
- Bernette was a regular on the BBC’s The Good Old Days from 1968 to 1983 and appeared in the 1970 Royal Variety Performance.
- She played Sister Delaney in Coronation Street in 1973 across six episodes, treating Elsie Tanner after she was hit by a car.
- Born Sheila Poncini in London in 1931, she later appeared in CBBC’s Hotel Trubble (2008–2011) and made her final film appearance in Driving Aphrodite (2009).