Gwyneth Strong (born 2 December 1959) is an
EnglishEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
actress. Her first appearance was in Royal Court's production "Live Like Pigs", when she was eleven. In 1973 she appeared in the horror film
Nothing But The Night as Mary Valley, and she was a regular in the children's TV series
The Flockton FlyerThe Flockton Flyer was a children's TV series made by Southern TV for the ITV network. There were two series, each of six episodes. Series 1 was first transmitted in spring, 1977 and Series 2 followed in early 1978. Programmes were shown at 4.45 pm on Monday afternoons...
in 1977/78 as Jan Carter.
Her best known role is in the popular
BBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation, usually referred to by its abbreviation as the "BBC", is the longest established and largest broadcaster in the world...
sitcom
Only Fools and HorsesOnly Fools and Horses is a British television sitcom, created and written by John Sullivan, and made and broadcast by the BBC. Seven series were originally broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom between 1981 and 1991, with sporadic Christmas specials until 2003.Set in Peckham in south London,...
as
CassandraCassandra Louise Trotter is a fictional character from the BBC television sit-com Only Fools and Horses...
, married to Del Boy's brother Rodney.
She has appeared in the "Observation" segment about Detective Samantha Smith made for the 1990 series of
The Krypton FactorThe Krypton Factor is a British game show. The show originally ran from 1977 to 1995, and was produced by Granada Television, hosted by Gordon Burns and usually broadcast on the ITV network on Mondays at 7pm. Contestants from across the United Kingdom and Ireland competed in a series of rounds that...
and also starred in two part drama serial
The Missing PostmanThe Missing Postman is a two-part comedy drama originally broadcast on BBC One on the consecutive evenings of 29 March and 30 March 1997. Adapted from the Mark Wallington novel, it received the award for Best BBC Comedy Drama at the British Comedy Awards in 1997.-Synopsis:When Clive Peacock is...
as WPC Rachel McMahon, as Hetty in ITV's
Lucy Sullivan Is Getting MarriedLucy Sullivan Is Getting Married is an international best selling 1996 novel by Irish author, Marian Keyes. It chronicles the life of Lucy Sullivan, a 26-year-old perpetually broke, unlucky-in-love office worker from London, who has a penchant for bad boys, a needy, alcoholic and flawed father, a...
(1999), and in
BBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation, usually referred to by its abbreviation as the "BBC", is the longest established and largest broadcaster in the world...
drama
CasualtyCasualty, styled as CASUAL
+Y, is the longest running emergency medical drama series in the world, and the second-longest-running medical drama in the world behind America's General Hospital. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast in 1986 and transmitted in the UK...
in 2003 as Jim Brodie's wife, Elizabeth
She also starred in the much acclaimed but little seen TV Film "It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow" Written by Bernard Kops, directed by John Goldsmidt, depicting the real-life drama of the Bethnal Green Tube Disaster in WW2.
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Gwyneth Strong (born 2 December 1959) is an
EnglishEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
actress. Her first appearance was in Royal Court's production "Live Like Pigs", when she was eleven. In 1973 she appeared in the horror film
Nothing But The Night as Mary Valley, and she was a regular in the children's TV series
The Flockton FlyerThe Flockton Flyer was a children's TV series made by Southern TV for the ITV network. There were two series, each of six episodes. Series 1 was first transmitted in spring, 1977 and Series 2 followed in early 1978. Programmes were shown at 4.45 pm on Monday afternoons...
in 1977/78 as Jan Carter.
Her best known role is in the popular
BBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation, usually referred to by its abbreviation as the "BBC", is the longest established and largest broadcaster in the world...
sitcom
Only Fools and HorsesOnly Fools and Horses is a British television sitcom, created and written by John Sullivan, and made and broadcast by the BBC. Seven series were originally broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom between 1981 and 1991, with sporadic Christmas specials until 2003.Set in Peckham in south London,...
as
CassandraCassandra Louise Trotter is a fictional character from the BBC television sit-com Only Fools and Horses...
, married to Del Boy's brother Rodney.
She has appeared in the "Observation" segment about Detective Samantha Smith made for the 1990 series of
The Krypton FactorThe Krypton Factor is a British game show. The show originally ran from 1977 to 1995, and was produced by Granada Television, hosted by Gordon Burns and usually broadcast on the ITV network on Mondays at 7pm. Contestants from across the United Kingdom and Ireland competed in a series of rounds that...
and also starred in two part drama serial
The Missing PostmanThe Missing Postman is a two-part comedy drama originally broadcast on BBC One on the consecutive evenings of 29 March and 30 March 1997. Adapted from the Mark Wallington novel, it received the award for Best BBC Comedy Drama at the British Comedy Awards in 1997.-Synopsis:When Clive Peacock is...
as WPC Rachel McMahon, as Hetty in ITV's
Lucy Sullivan Is Getting MarriedLucy Sullivan Is Getting Married is an international best selling 1996 novel by Irish author, Marian Keyes. It chronicles the life of Lucy Sullivan, a 26-year-old perpetually broke, unlucky-in-love office worker from London, who has a penchant for bad boys, a needy, alcoholic and flawed father, a...
(1999), and in
BBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation, usually referred to by its abbreviation as the "BBC", is the longest established and largest broadcaster in the world...
drama
CasualtyCasualty, styled as CASUAL
+Y, is the longest running emergency medical drama series in the world, and the second-longest-running medical drama in the world behind America's General Hospital. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast in 1986 and transmitted in the UK...
in 2003 as Jim Brodie's wife, Elizabeth
She also starred in the much acclaimed but little seen TV Film "It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow" Written by Bernard Kops, directed by John Goldsmidt, depicting the real-life drama of the Bethnal Green Tube Disaster in WW2. See www.stairwaytoheavenmemorial.org for more info.
She married former
Footballers Wives and
EldoradoEldorado was a British soap opera that ran for only one year, from 6 July 1992 to 9 July 1993. Set in Coín on the Costa Del Sol and based around the lives of British and European expats, the BBC hoped it would be as successful as EastEnders and replicate some of the sunshine and glamour of imported...
star
Jesse BirdsallJesse Birdsall is a British actor, known in the UK for his starring roles in several high-profile, popular television programmes, particularly in Bugs as Nick Beckett and later in The Bill as a character named Ron Gregory, a convicted paedophile.He first came to public attention in the serial...
on 15 July 2000 and they have 2 children together.