ACTOR
Lynda Bellingham
- Known for
- All Creatures Great & Small (1978), Filthy Rich & Catflap (1987), At Home with the Braithwaites (2000), Sweeney! (1977)
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Lynda Bellingham is an actor best known for All Creatures Great & Small, Filthy Rich & Catflap and At Home with the Braithwaites.
All facts (19)
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In July 2013 she was diagnosed with colon cancer, and doctors gave her a good prognosis. However, in September 2014 she announced that the cancer had spread to her liver and lungs, and that she planned to stop chemotherapy in November.
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She was also known for playing the mother of the Oxo family in a series of advertisements.
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She was appointed OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2014 Queen's New Year Honours for her voluntary service to charitable giving in the United Kingdom.
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From 2007 to 2011 she was one of the regular panellists on the daytime talk show Loose Women (1999). She later regretted it, feeling it had led people to think of her as a TV personality rather than an actress.
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She was born in Canada to an unmarried teenager named Marjorie Hughes, and was later adopted at the age of 4 months by an English couple named the Bellinghams.
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Her adoptive parents, Donald and Ruth Bellingham, died in January 2005 and February 2005 respectively. Her biological mother, Marjorie Hughes Bond, died in February 2012.
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In 2009 she took part in the BBC reality dance show Strictly Come Dancing (2004), but she did not enjoy the experience.
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In the months before her death she was offered roles in The Syndicate (2012) and EastEnders (1985), but she was too ill to take them.
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She appeared in Calendar Girls on stage in London.
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She was considered for the role of Chancellor Thalia in Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity.
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On 6 April 1988 she gave birth to her second child, Robert Ciro Peluso, at the age of 39. The child's father is her current second ex-husband, Nunzio Peluso.
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She was the daughter of a farmer from Aylesbury.
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She was appearing alongside Alison Steadman in Losing Louis at Trafalgar Studios in London.
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On 13 April 1983 she gave birth to her first child, Michael Peluso, at the age of 34. The child's father is her current second ex-husband, Nunzio Peluso.
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Both of her sons were delivered by caesarean section because they were in the breech position.
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She wanted to follow her idol Julie Andrews and become a singer, but she stayed with acting.
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She was born in Montreal, and her family came to England when she was 6 years old.
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She toured in the play Castles in the Air alongside William Franklyn.
- #019
She was known for the role of the mother in the Oxo television advertisements.
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