Ladies of Minder
by thescouseassassin93 | created - 25 Dec 2021 | updated - 25 Dec 2021 | Public
1. Rula Lenska
Actress | Royal Flash
Rula Lenska was born on September 30, 1947 in St. Neots, Cambridgeshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Royal Flash (1975), Queen Kong (1976) and Seven Dials Mystery (1981). She was previously married to Dennis Waterman and Brian Deacon.
2. Suzi Quatro
Soundtrack | Cruella
Born in Detroit and grew up in the nearby suburb of Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Moved to England to pursue music career. Had tremendous success as a rock singer in Britain and worldwide, but only managed one hit in her native America. Was reportedly asked to audition for the part of Happy Days (1974)'...
3. June Whitfield
Actress | Absolutely Fabulous
June Whitfield had a long and successful career that has included musical theatre, films and numerous radio and television performances. Her mother was into amateur dramatics and June had elocution and dancing lessons from an early age. She attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked in ...
4. Samantha Womack
Actress | Kingsman: The Secret Service
Samantha Womack was born on November 2, 1972 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) and EastEnders (1985). She has been married to Mark Womack since May 17, 2009. They have two children. She was ...
5. Wanda Ventham
Actress | UFO
Wanda Ventham was born on August 5, 1935 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK. She is an actress, known for UFO (1970), Invasion: UFO (1974) and Sherlock (2010). She has been married to Timothy Carlton since April 1976. They have one child. She was previously married to James Tabernacle.
6. Gwyneth Strong
Actress | Only Fools and Horses
Gwyneth was born in London to English/Welsh parents who both worked for the BBC - her father, Colin, directed The Old Grey Whistle Test (1971) and Late Night Line-Up (1964) - but they weren't keen on her becoming an actress. She didn't go to drama school but had acting lessons at her school. She ...
7. Patricia Quinn
Actress | The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Patricia Quinn was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She was beginning to break into television when she was offered the role of "the Usherette/Magenta" in Richard O'Brien's "Rocky Horror Show", the role she would become best known for. Patricia continued to work hard after "Rocky Horror" and soon...
8. Natascha McElhone
Actress | Solaris
Natascha McElhone was born in Walton on Thames, London. She attended several schools, Camden School for Girls being the last.
Natascha McElhone established herself as a talented leading actress when she left drama school in 1993 to play the lead in her first film, Merchant Ivory's Surviving Picasso,...
9. Jan Francis
Actress | Dracula
Jan Francis was born on August 5, 1947 in Westminster, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Dracula (1979), Just Good Friends (1983) and The Good Companions (1980). She has been married to Thomas Ellice since 1977. They have two children.
10. Janet Fielding
Actress | Doctor Who
Janet Mahoney - now better known by her stage name of Janet Fielding - was born in Brisbane, Australia, in 1953. She gained A levels in Physics, Chemistry and Maths and joined Queensland University, where she first took up acting. After leaving university she worked with an English writer/director ...
11. Liza Goddard
Actress | Doctor Who
Liza Goddard was born on January 20, 1950 in Smethwick, Sandwell, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Doctor Who (1963), Woof! (1989) and The Intruders (1969). She was previously married to David Cobham, Alvin Stardust and Colin Baker.
12. Marina Sirtis
Actress | Star Trek: The Next Generation
Marina Sirtis was born in London, England, to Greek parents, Despina (Yianniri), a tailor's assistant, and John Sirtis. Her parents did not want her to become an actress. As soon as Marina completed high school, she secretly applied to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. After her graduation, ...
13. Beryl Reid
Actress | The Killing of Sister George
Beryl Reid was the daughter of Scottish parents and grew up in industrial Manchester, England. She left home at the age of 16 to go and work in a shop. She lasted 6 weeks. She applied for and was accepted in a revue in the Summer season in Bridlington. She had no formal training but joined the ...
14. Sheila Ruskin
Actress | Mackenzie
Sheila Ruskin was born on March 28, 1946. She is an actress and writer, known for Mackenzie (1980), Doctor Who (1963) and I, Claudius (1976). She was previously married to David Wood.
15. Orla Brady
Actress | The Foreigner
Irish-born Orla Brady studied acting at the Ecole Phillippe Gaulier in Paris. Upon returning to Dublin, she won the role of Adela in the House of Bernarda Alba at the Gate Theatre. Since then, she has been working on both sides of the Atlantic with a career mix of television, film, and stage to her...
16. Caroline Langrishe
Actress | Lovejoy
Caroline trained at Elmhurst Ballet School, and started working in film, theatre and television from the age of 17. She is probably best known for her roles as running characters: Charlotte Cavendish in 'Lovejoy', Georgina Channing in 'Judge John Deed' and Marilyn Fox in 'Casualty'. Caroline was ...
17. Sara Stewart
Actress | Batman Begins
Sara was born and raised in Edinburgh Scotland. After spending some time in England, she trained at The Central School of Speech and Drama in London, and made London her home. Her work has been diverse, ranging from classical tragic heroines like "Natalya Petrovna" in Turgenyev's "Month in the ...
18. Honor Blackman
Actress | Goldfinger
One of four children, Blackman was born in London's East End, to Edith Eliza (Stokes), a homemaker, and Frederick Thomas Blackman, a statistician employed with the Civil Service. She received elocution lessons for her 16th birthday (at her own request), and later attended the Guildhall School of ...
19. Amanda Pays
Actress | Leviathan
Born in London, England, Amanda Pays is the daughter of show business agent and actor Howard Pays and former actress Jan Miller. An aunt, Mandy Miller, won fame as a child star of the '50s film Crash of Silence (1952) . When she was eight, Pays started school at a nearby convent and it was there ...
20. Lynda Baron
Actress | Scoop
Lilian Ridgway, known professionally as Lynda Baron, was an English actress, best known for playing Nurse Gladys Emmanuel in the BBC comedy series Open All Hours (1976-1985) and its sequel, Still Open All Hours (2013-2016).
From 1993 to 1997, she played Auntie Mabel in BBC children's programme Come ...
21. Lesley Joseph
Actress | Birds of a Feather
Lesley Joseph was born on October 14, 1945 in Finsbury Park, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Birds of a Feather (1989), Night & Day (2001) and Celebrity Juice (2008).
22. Kika Markham
Actress | Killing Me Softly
Kika Markham was born in 1940 in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Killing Me Softly (2002), Outland (1981) and Franklyn (2008). She was previously married to Corin Redgrave.
23. Penny Downie
Actress | Invictus
Penny Downie was born in Australia. She was determined to make it overseas and her role in Minder (1979), with George Cole and Dennis Waterman, was her big break. She's never looked back, and is regularly seen in TV work. She was known to have a good ear and able to pick up accents, quickly. Her ...
24. Sharon Duce
Actress | Outland
Sharon Duce was born on January 17, 1950 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Outland (1981), Rogue Trader (1999) and Funny Man (1980).
25. Pam St. Clement
Actress | EastEnders
Pam St. Clement was born on May 11, 1942 in Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex, England, UK. She is an actress, known for EastEnders (1985), Hedda (1975) and Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time (1993). She was previously married to Andrew Gordon.
26. Rachel Davies
Actress | Doctor Who
Rachel Davies was born in Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK. She is known for Doctor Who (1963), Band of Gold (1995) and Midsomer Murders (1997).
27. Mel Martin
Actress | White Hunter Black Heart
Mel Martin was born on March 7, 1947 in Chelsea, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for White Hunter Black Heart (1990), Persuasion (1971) and Do You Remember? (1978). She has been married to John Duttine since 1998. She was previously married to Paul Ridley.
28. Carole Ashby
Actress | A View to a Kill
She had boarding school education and always wanted to act but her parents were against it.. She did a grooming course in modeling during school holidays and was subsequently offered a modeling course. Her parents refused to let her attend a drama school in London so she accepted the modeling ...
29. Kim Thomson
Actress | The Tall Guy
Born in Scotland, raised in Surrey by her Scottish grandparents. Kim was trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London. An early break came in playing the lead in the TV mini-series 'Cover Her Face'. First film credit was "Stealing Heaven". Kim has gone on to work extensively in film, ...
30. Amanda Burton
Actress | Marcella
Amanda Burton was born and raised in Derry, Northern Ireland. Leaving aged 18 to train as an actress at Manchester Polytechnic School of Theatre. Amanda has since become one of Britain's most respected and admired actresses often taking on leading strong roles in dramas. She is the mother of two ...
31. Susannah Doyle
Actress | Drop the Dead Donkey
Susannah Doyle (born 5 July 1966) is an English actress, playwright and film director, best known for her roles as Joy Merryweather in Drop The Dead Donkey and as Avril Burke in Ballykissangel.
The daughter of the Irish actor Tony Doyle, she realized that she wished to follow in his footsteps when, ...
32. Phyllida Law
Actress | The Time Machine
Phyllida Law was born on May 8, 1932 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for The Time Machine (2002), Much Ado About Nothing (1993) and The Winter Guest (1997). She was previously married to Eric Thompson.
33. Hilary Mason
Actress | Don't Look Now
Although a prolific television character actress for almost half a century, Hilary Mason will be best remembered on screen as the blind, psychic Heather in the macabre supernatural thriller Don't Look Now (1973). The 1973 film starred Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland as John and Laura Baxter, a...
34. Eileen Way
Actress | The Vikings
Eileen Way was born on September 2, 1911 in New Malden, Surrey, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Vikings (1958), Kidnapped (1960) and Sean's Show (1992). She was married to Felix Warden Brown. She died on June 16, 1994 in Canterbury, Kent, England, UK.
35. Christine Kavanagh
Actress | Doctor Who
Christine Kavanagh was born on March 24, 1957 in the UK. She is an actress, known for Doctor Who (1963), National Theatre Live: Man and Superman (2015) and A Very British Coup (1988). She has been married to Jack Ellis since 1983. They have two children.
36. Sarah Berger
Actress | An Inspector Calls
Sarah Berger was born in 1960 in the UK. She is an actress and producer, known for An Inspector Calls (1982), Minder (1979) and T. Bag and the Rings of Olympus (1991).
37. Fiona Mollison
Actress | The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Fiona Mollison was born on January 9, 1954 in Java, East Indies. She is an actress, known for The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015), Strangers (1978) and As Time Goes By (1992).
38. Diana Quick
Actress | The Duellists
Eclectic, spade-jawed, auburn-haired British classical stage actress Diana Quick, of Anglo-Indian descent, specialized in aristocratic ladies and played various members of royalty (queens, baronesses, etc.) throughout her career. Having worked with most of the prominent British theatre companies (...
39. Liz Fraser
Actress | I'm All Right Jack
Best known for playing the perpetually-ditzy blonde bimbo in several installments of the "Carry On" franchise, buxom Liz Fraser (born Elizabeth Joan Winch above a corner shop in south London) studied at RADA on a scholarship and first acted in repertory theatre and television before breaking into ...
40. Helen Masters
Actress | Wycliffe
Helen Masters was born in 1964 in England, UK. She is an actress, known for Wycliffe (1993), The Affair of the Necklace (2001) and Belonging (2004).
41. Deborah Grant
Actress | London Has Fallen
Deborah Grant was born on February 22, 1947 in London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for London Has Fallen (2016), Bouquet of Barbed Wire (1976) and Bergerac (1981). She was previously married to Gregory Floy and Jeremy Child.
42. Sherrie Hewson
Actress | Coronation Street
Sherrie Hewson was born on September 17, 1950 in Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Coronation Street (1960), In Loving Memory (1969) and Oh Doctor Beeching! (1995). She was previously married to Ken Boyd and Hector Blamey.
43. Janine Duvitski
Actress | The New World
Janine Drzewicki was born in the Lancashire town of Lancaster to an English mother and a Polish father. She attended school in Nottingham and later moved to London to train as an actress at the E 15 theatre school. Shortly after leaving she was given a couple of small roles in television dramas but...
44. Georgina Hale
Actress | Mahler
Georgina Hale was an accomplished stage actress who made many memorable forays in cinema, most notably in the films of Ken Russell, especially her performance as Alma Mahler, in a wonderful and visually rich biopic on composer Mahler (1974) which she won a BAFTA (British Academy Award) for. Two ...
45. Sue Holderness
Actress | Only Fools and Horses
Sue Holderness was born on May 28, 1949 in Hampstead, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Only Fools and Horses (1981), The Green Green Grass (2005) and Dear John.... (1986). She is married to Mark Piper. They have two children.
46. Sandy Ratcliff
Actress | EastEnders
Sandy Ratcliff was born on October 2, 1948 in Islington, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for EastEnders (1985), The Final Programme (1973) and Doll's Eye (1983). She was married to Peter Wright. She died on April 7, 2019 in London, England, UK.
47. Sara Sugarman
Director | Vinyl
Sara Sugarman was born in Rhyl, Denbighshire, Wales, UK. Sara is an actor and director, known for Vinyl (2012), Very Annie Mary (2001) and Sid and Nancy (1986). Sara was previously married to David Thewlis.
48. Geraldine Alexander
Actress | Bridgerton
Geraldine Alexander was born in 1960 in Leamington Spa, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Bridgerton (2020), The Child in Time (2017) and Extras (2005).
49. Sylvia Kay
Actress | Wake in Fright
Sylvia Kay was born on May 16, 1936 in Altrincham, Cheshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Wake in Fright (1971), Just Good Friends (1983) and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955). She was married to Christopher Douglas and Ted Kotcheff. She died on January 18, 2019 in London, England, ...
50. June Brown
Actress | EastEnders
June Brown served in the Wrens and was classically trained at the Old Vic Drama School. She enjoyed a long career in the theatre, television and the cinema. The actor Nigel Hawthorne described her as "one of the most beautiful creatures I've seen on stage" after seeing her performance as Ibsen's "...
51. Gina McKee
Actress | Notting Hill
She was born in Sunderland but raised just down the coast in Peterlee where she was educated at Peterlee Comprehensive. At 14 she joined the local drama group which led to a part in the children's tv series 'Quest of Eagles' and appeared in some television commercials including one as a shop ...
52. Linda Regan
Actress | Hi-de-Hi!
Linda was born in London. She is the daughter of a comedy magician, agent and comedy band leader. After leaving school at an early age, and a brief spell in club comedy Linda started her acting career in repertory theatre. She appeared in everything from Shakespeare to farce, in various theatre up ...
53. Susannah Corbett
Actress | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Susannah Corbett was born in 1968 in London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), First Knight (1995) and Peak Practice (1993).
54. Ann Lynn
Actress | Just Good Friends
Ann Lynn was born on November 7, 1933 in Fulham, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Just Good Friends (1983), A Shot in the Dark (1964) and Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973). She was married to Anthony Newley. She died on August 30, 2020 in Oxfordshire, England, UK.
55. Diane Keen
Actress | Sweeney!
Diane Keen was born on July 29, 1946 in London, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for Sweeney! (1977), Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987) and The Athena Syndrome.
56. Frances Cuka
Actress | Oliver Twist
Frances Cuka was born in 1936 in London, to Joseph and Letitia Cuka. The family eventually moved to Hove, where Frances was educated at Brighton and Hove High School. She trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, then made her stage debut in 1955 in 'Meet Mr. Callaghan' in Warrington. ...
57. Toyah Willcox
Actress | Jubilee
Toyah has successfully combined acting and singing for 40 years to critical acclaim. This year The Telegraph called her "absolutely brilliant!" in her latest film role as Barbara in Steve Oram's Aaaaaaaah! (2015). She has a passion for independent film and experimentation, having been a muse of the...
58. Vicki Michelle
Actress | 'Allo 'Allo!
Vicki trained at the Aida Foster Theatre School and quickly won a variety of roles in film, television and on stage but it was her portrayal of Yvette in the hit BBC series Allo Allo that gained her worldwide recognition. Vicki played Yvette for all nine series with the Allo Allo stage play taking ...
59. Hetty Baynes
Actress | Cordelia
Hetty Baynes was born in 1956 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for Cordelia (2019), The Casual Vacancy (2015) and The Hour (2011). She was previously married to Ken Russell.
60. Julia St John
Actress | The Brittas Empire
Julia St John was born on August 3, 1956 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for The Brittas Empire (1991), The Young Victoria (2009) and Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012). She has been married to Peter McEnery since 1997.
61. Jackie Collins
Actress | Danger Man
Jackie Collins was born on October 4, 1937 in London, England, UK. She was an actress and writer, known for Danger Man (1960), The Saint (1962) and The Stud (1978). She was married to Oscar Lerman and Wallace Austin. She died on September 19, 2015 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
62. Diana Malin
Actress | Minder
Diana Malin was born on June 19, 1957. She is an actress, known for Minder (1979), Play for Today (1970) and Fox Mystery Theater (1984).
63. Patricia Maynard
Actress | Doctor Who
Patricia Maynard was born on February 16, 1942 in Beighton, near Sheffield, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Doctor Who (1963), The Last of the Mohicans (1971) and Minder (1979).
64. Penny Morrell
Actress | The End of the Affair
Penny Morrell was born on February 4, 1938 in England, UK. She was an actress, known for The End of the Affair (1999), EastEnders (1985) and Armchair Theatre (1956). She was married to George Cole. She died on January 3, 2020 in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK.
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