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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 January 2025. British actress and screenwriter (born 1959) Not to be confused with Emma Thomas. For the Australian cricketer, see Emma Thompson (cricketer). Dame Emma Thompson DBE Thompson in 2022 Born (1959-04-15) 15 April 1959 (age 65) London, England Alma mater Newnham College, Cambridge (BA ...
Violet Helen Carson (1 September 1898 – 26 December 1983) was a British actress of radio, stage and television, and a singer and pianist, who had a long and celebrated career as an actress and performer during the early days of BBC Radio, and during the last two decades of her life as the matronly Christian widow, town gossip and elderly battle-axe Ena Sharples in the ITV television soap ...
Jennifer Jane Saunders (born 6 July 1958) is an English actress, comedian, singer, and screenwriter. Saunders originally found attention in the 1980s, when she became a member of The Comic Strip after graduating from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with her best friend and comedy partner, Dawn French.
Dame Maggie Smith was a British actress who worked in theatre, television and film. She made her professional theatre debut in 1956 playing Viola in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at the Oxford Playhouse. She made her Broadway debut in musical revue New Faces of 1956 (1956).
Russell also sang the theme tune to the BBC sitcom, Red Dwarf, with her version of the song being used in all series of the show. Russell began her career as an understudy for Eponine and Fantine and later took over Fantine in Les Misérables and performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) for the first portion of her career.
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Anna Dawson (born 27 July 1937) is an English actress and singer.. Born in Bolton, Lancashire, Dawson spent part of her childhood in Tanganyika, where her father worked.She attended the Elmhurst Ballet School and after training at the Central School of Speech and Drama she learned her craft by playing in repertory theatre companies.
As an actress, she appeared in Doctor Who (in the story Destiny of the Daleks), [10] Hammer House of Horror, Morecambe and Wise, Tales of the Unexpected and became a frequent contributor to the Mike Yarwood series on ITV during the early 1980s, portraying Diana, Princess of Wales, opposite Yarwood's impersonation of Prince Charles.