Carmel Cryan is a British

United Kingdom

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  actress, best known for the role of Brenda Boyle in the BBC

BBC

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 soap opera

Soap opera

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, EastEnders

EastEnders

EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...

.

Life and career

Cryan was born in London. She was married to the actor Roy Kinnear

Roy Kinnear

Roy Mitchell Kinnear was an English character actor. He is best remembered for playing Veruca Salt's father, Mr. Salt, in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.-Early life:...

, until his death in 1988. They had three children together, including Rory Kinnear

Rory Kinnear

Rory Kinnear is an award-winning English actor who has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre.-Early life:...

, who is also an actor; and Kirsty who works as a casting assistant.

In June 2008, she was cast as Brenda Boyle in EastEnders a love interest for Charlie Slater, Cryan signed a six-month contract in August 2008 and she and the character of Charlie Slater

Charlie Slater

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 (actor Derek Martin

Derek Martin

Derek Martin is a British actor who is best known for his role as Charlie Slater in the British soap opera EastEnders which he played from 2000 to 2011.-Personal life:...

) took their relationship to the next level. Cryan was written out of EastEnders in August 2009 when Brenda emigrated to Madeira

Madeira

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 with Charlie.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role
1963	The Rag Trade The Rag Trade The Rag Trade was a British television sitcom broadcast by the BBC between 1961 and 1963 and by LWT between 1977 and 1978.The scripts were by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, who later wrote Wild, Wild Women, a period variation of The Rag Trade....	Gloria
1966	Thirty-Minute Theatre	Rose
1969	Fraud Squad
1970	Beyond Belief Beyond Belief Beyond Belief may refer to:In film, television and radio:* Beyond Belief , a short film featuring the band Petra* Beyond Belief , a documentary about two 9/11 widows...
1970	Catweazle Catweazle Catweazle was a British television series, created and written by Richard Carpenter which was produced and directed by Quentin Lawrence for London Weekend Television under the LWI banner, and screened in the UK on ITV in 1970 and 1971...	Audrey
1970	Steptoe and Son Steptoe and Son Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about two rag and bone men living in Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, London. Four series were broadcast by the BBC from 1962 to 1965, followed by a second run from 1970 to 1974. Its theme tune, "Old...	Muriel
1975	Within These Walls Within These Walls Within These Walls is a British television drama programme made by London Weekend Television for ITV and shown between 1974 and 1978. It portrayed life in HMP Stone Park, a fictional women's prison...	Mrs. Flower
1981	Partners Partners (TV series) Partners is an American sitcom that aired on FOX from 1995 to 1996.-Synopsis:The series centered a pair of young architects, Bob and Owen , and Owen's fiancée Alicia . Much of the show's humor derived from Bob's lack of success with women and his competition with Alicia for Owen's attention...	Gladys
1989	Ever Decreasing Circles Ever Decreasing Circles Ever Decreasing Circles is a British situation comedy which ran on BBC1 for four series from 1984 to 1989.It was written by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey, and reunited them with Richard Briers, the star of their previous hit show, The Good Life. It was much less brash than most situation comedies,...	Nina
1991	Lovejoy Lovejoy Lovejoy is a TV series about the adventures of Lovejoy, a British antiques dealer and faker based in East Anglia, a less than scrupulous yet likeable rogue. The episodes were based on a series of picaresque novels by John Grant...
1997	Rag Nymph
2002	The Bill The Bill The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...	Mrs. Hacker
2005	Life Begins Life Begins Life Begins is a British television drama first broadcast on ITV between February 2004 and October 2006, starring Caroline Quentin and Alexander Armstrong, Anne Reid and Frank Finlay.-History:...	Maureen Russell
2008–09	EastEnders EastEnders EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...	Brenda Boyle 18 episodes

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