Sheila was inspired by her great aunt, Movie Star Louise Latimer, at the age of five.

Louise would dress Shelia up in mink stoles, and false eyelashes, and give her lines to recite at family holiday parties.

Sheila was also inspired to be an actress by her aunt Virginia McGuire who studied at Carnegie Tech and Yale Drama School.

Virginia won a contest put on by Photoplay magazine in which judges that included Bette Davis, William Holden, and Joseph Mankiewicz

chose her out of 50,000 girls.

Sheila was born and raised in Connecticut. She started acting classes at Fairfield University with Doug Taylor. After doing many Connecticut regional theatrical productions,

Sheila went to NYC and studied in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts summer program and took other classes in between. Shelia decided to move to Hollywood California,

where she got an agent and enrolled at the Stella Adler Conservatory for three years. One of Sheila's stage performances received the following review in Nitelife Today:

"Redgate was a delight in act two. She brings the energy, and the playfulness to the stage that should set the standard for the rest of the cast, and the production as a whole."

Sheila has been in over twenty independent films, commercials for Canal Street Jean Company, Dodge Trucks, and Fashion Showcase; as well as a national Discover Card commercial

that aired on Super Bowl Sunday. In 2009 Sheila got the part of Cheryl Ann Sutcliffe in La Funcionaria Asesina aka The Slayer Bureaucrat. In 2010 Sheila is cast in the lead role in

Sergio Kardenas' next film Café 65, which will be out in the summer of 2011.