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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.
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- wc Gender: Female
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1948-05-31
- event Death Date 2014-10-19
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 9.6
- info Birth Place Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Lynda Bellingham
6.8
Sweeney!
1977-01-14
5.1
The Romanovs: A Crowned Family
2000-07-19
0
Devil's Gate
2004-05-20
4.8
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
1977-04-04
6.5
An Audience with Ronnie Corbett
1997-10-25
4
Riding High
1981-05-01
4.9
Don't Go Breaking My Heart
1999-02-12
3.5
Bodywork
2001-09-04
10
The Vision
1987-11-25
4.5
The Scarlet Tunic
1998-06-12
4.9
Confessions of a Driving Instructor
1976-09-01
6.3
Doctor Who: The Mysterious Planet
1986-09-27
6.3
Doctor Who: Mindwarp
1986-10-25
7.3
Doctor Who: Terror of the Vervoids
1986-11-22
5.8
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Foe
1986-12-06
2
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
1998-11-07
7.7
The Sweeney
1975-01-02
7.6
Midsomer Murders
1997-03-23
5.7
This Morning
1988-10-03
6.6
Second Thoughts
1991-05-03
4.7
The One Show
2006-08-14
7.2
Blake's 7
1978-01-02
7.2
The Gentle Touch
1980-04-11
7
Z-Cars
1962-01-02
6.8
Shoestring
1979-09-30
7.5
The Professionals
1977-12-30
5.8
Surprise, Surprise
1984-05-06
1
Mister Eleven
2009-12-11
6.3
Dalziel & Pascoe
1996-03-16
7.3
Waking the Dead
2001-06-18
6.8
Robin Hood
2006-10-07
7.6
All Creatures Great and Small
1978-01-08
5.3
Hazell
1978-01-16
6
Faith in the Future
1995-11-17
3.7
Angels
1975-09-01
7.4
New Tricks
2004-01-01
3.7
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007-09-03
7.5
The Last Detective
2003-02-07
0
One Life
2003-09-24
5.3
Within These Walls
1974-01-04
0
Tell Tarby
1973-10-29
0
Bonkers
2007-02-01
5
Junior Masterchef
1994-08-14
0
Gibberish
1992-03-16
0
All Star Mr & Mrs
2008-04-12
0
The Pink Medicine Show
1978-06-09
0
Odd One In
2010-07-17
7
My Uncle Silas
2001-10-28
5.5
Yus, My Dear
1976-01-11
5.3
An Audience with...
1978-01-08
6.5
At Home with the Braithwaites
2000-01-20
6
Casualty
1986-09-06
4.5
Wogan
1982-05-04
7.5
Martin Chuzzlewit
1994-11-07
7.9
Doctor Who
1963-11-23
3.4
Loose Women
1999-09-06
3.4
Loose Women
1999-09-06
6.6
Filthy Rich & Catflap
1987-01-07
6.8
Screen Two
1985-01-06