Lynda Bellingham
Biografia
Lynda Bellingham played many roles during her five-decade professional career, but became synonymous with one. "Being a mum making gravy was not quite how I had seen my career advancing," she said once. But between 1983 and 1999 that's what she did in 42 "episodes" of an award-winning TV ad. Since the early 1980s, her name was rarely mentioned in print without it being prefaced with "Oxo mum". During her career, though, she starred on TV as the vet's wife Helen Herriot in All Creatures Great and Small in the 80s and as one of two divorcees trying to forge a relationship in the 90s sitcom Second Thoughts, opposite James Bolam. On stage she was best known for playing the lead in a touring production of Calendar Girls between 2008 and 2012. She was also, for four years between 2007 and 2011, a regular member of the team on Loose Women, the daytime TV chat show. She had few regrets about how her career turned out, summarising its trajectory thus on her website: "Arrived in London at the Central School [for Speech and Drama] in 1966 and never looked back. I had a ball!" Bellingham, though, knew that gravy, like Lady Macbeth's damned spot, left an indelible mark. "In many ways I was very proud of what we did, but there is no doubt that my credibility as an actress was knocked," she reflected. "Certain people in the industry would never employ me as a serious actress after it. On the other hand, it gave me the financial security to go off and work in the theatre for very little money." Her performances as Mrs Oxo were reportedly responsible for a 10% increase in stock cube sales.
Filmografia
Filmy i seriale od najnowszych
Too Close for Comfort
Film • 2012
jako Mum
Odd One In
Serial • 2010
Mister Eleven
Serial • 2009
jako Shirley
All Star Mr & Mrs
Serial • 2008
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
Serial • 2007
jako Self
Bonkers
Serial • 2007
jako Mrs Wadlow
Robin Hood
Serial • 2006
Devil's Gate
Film • 2004
jako Marlene
Murder in Suburbia
Serial • 2004
jako Milly Goodman
The Long Bank Holiday
Film • 2004
jako Councillor Marjorie Balsam
New Tricks
Serial • 2004
One Life
Serial • 2003
Celebrity Naked Ambition
Film • 2003
jako Self (archive footage)
The Last Detective
Serial • 2003
Bodywork
Film • 2001
jako Poppy Fields
Waking the Dead
Serial • 2001
jako Mary Mantel
Романовы: Венценосная Семья
Film • 2000
jako Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna
Reach for the Moon
Serial • 2000
jako Penny Martin
At Home with the Braithwaites
Serial • 2000
jako Pauline Farnell
Loose Women
Serial • 1999
jako Self
Don't Go Breaking My Heart
Film • 1999
jako Maxine
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
Film • 1998
The Scarlet Tunic
Film • 1998
jako Emily Marlowe
An Audience with Ronnie Corbett
Film • 1997
Morderstwa w Midsomer
Serial • 1997
jako Jane Willows
Dalziel and Pascoe
Serial • 1996
jako Jess Pitman
Faith in the Future
Serial • 1995
Martin Chuzzlewit
Serial • 1994
jako Mrs Lupin
Junior Masterchef
Serial • 1994
Gibberish
Serial • 1992
Second Thoughts
Serial • 1991
jako Faith
This Morning
Serial • 1988
jako Self
The Vision
Film • 1987
jako Mary Morris
Filthy Rich & Catflap
Serial • 1987
jako Ms Tomkins
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Foe
Film • 1986
jako The Inquisitor
Doctor Who: Terror of the Vervoids
Film • 1986
jako The Inquisitor
Doctor Who: Mindwarp
Film • 1986
jako The Inquisitor
Doctor Who: The Mysterious Planet
Film • 1986
jako The Inquisitor
Casualty
Serial • 1986
jako Steph Yates
Screen Two
Serial • 1985
jako Mary Morris
Surprise, Surprise
Serial • 1984
jako Self
Wogan
Serial • 1982
jako Self
Riding High
Film • 1981
jako Miss Mott
Funny Man
Serial • 1981
jako Gwen
Mackenzie
Serial • 1980
jako Ruth Isaacs
Shoestring
Serial • 1979
jako Nicola
The Waterloo Bridge Handicap
Film • 1978
jako Likely Lady (Miss Beamish)
The Pink Medicine Show
Serial • 1978
Wszystkie stworzenia duże i małe
Serial • 1978
jako Helen Herriot
An Audience with...
Serial • 1978
jako Self
Blake's 7
Serial • 1978
jako Vena
The Professionals
Serial • 1977
jako Betty Hope
Cottage to Let
Serial • 1977
jako Barbara
Don't Forget to Write!
Serial • 1977
jako Angela
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
Film • 1977
jako Valerie
Sweeney!
Film • 1977
jako Janice Wyatt
Confessions of a Driving Instructor
Film • 1976
jako Mary Truscott
Yus, My Dear
Serial • 1976
jako Carol
Angels
Serial • 1975
The Sweeney
Serial • 1975
jako Nancy King
Tell Tarby
Serial • 1973
jako Nurse Norma Snockers
The Misfit
Serial • 1970
jako Wee Jeannie
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Serial • 1969
jako Nurse Mary Tiller
Doctor Who
Serial • 1963
jako The Inquisitor
Z-Cars
Serial • 1962