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Lynda Bellingham
Acting

Lynda Bellingham
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1948-05-31,Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Gender
Female
Biography
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.

Filmography

6.667

Sweeney!
1977-01-14

The Romanovs: A Crowned Family

5.167

The Romanovs: A Crowned Family
2000-07-19

9

Devil's Gate
2004-05-20

Stand up, Virgin Soldiers

4.571

Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
1977-04-04

An Audience with Ronnie Corbett

6.667

An Audience with Ronnie Corbett
1997-10-25

5.333

Riding High
1981-05-01

Don't Go Breaking My Heart

5.227

Don't Go Breaking My Heart
1999-02-12

4.25

Bodywork
2001-09-04

10

The Vision
1987-11-25

The Scarlet Tunic

5.125

The Scarlet Tunic
1998-06-12

Confessions of a Driving Instructor

4.556

Confessions of a Driving Instructor
1976-09-01

Doctor Who: The Mysterious Planet

6.2

Doctor Who: The Mysterious Planet
1986-09-27

Doctor Who: Mindwarp

7.7

Doctor Who: Mindwarp
1986-10-25

Doctor Who: Terror of the Vervoids

4.7

Doctor Who: Terror of the Vervoids
1986-11-22

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Foe

5.8

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Foe
1986-12-06

Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh

6.667

Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
1998-11-07

The Waterloo Bridge Handicap

8

The Waterloo Bridge Handicap
1978-12-31

Too Close for Comfort

0

Too Close for Comfort
2012-02-29

The Long Bank Holiday

8

The Long Bank Holiday
2004-02-20

Celebrity Naked Ambition

8

Celebrity Naked Ambition
2003-07-19

8

The Sweeney
1975-01-02

Midsomer Murders

7.487

Midsomer Murders
1997-03-23

5.217

This Morning
1988-10-03

Second Thoughts

6.667

Second Thoughts
1991-05-03

7.3

Blake's 7
1978-01-02

7.286

Z-Cars
1962-01-02

The Professionals

7.5

The Professionals
1977-12-30

Surprise, Surprise

6.6

Surprise, Surprise
1984-05-06

4.5

Mister Eleven
2009-12-11

Waking the Dead

7.25

Waking the Dead
2001-06-18

6.864

Robin Hood
2006-10-07

All Creatures Great and Small

7.75

All Creatures Great and Small
1978-01-08

Faith in the Future

7.25

Faith in the Future
1995-11-17

4.5

Angels
1975-09-01

7.349

New Tricks
2004-01-01

The Alan Titchmarsh Show

4.5

The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007-09-03

The Last Detective

7.818

The Last Detective
2003-02-07

0

One Life
2003-09-24

8

Tell Tarby
1973-10-29

0

Bonkers
2007-02-01

Junior Masterchef

5.5

Junior Masterchef
1994-08-14

6

Gibberish
1992-03-16

All Star Mr & Mrs

0

All Star Mr & Mrs
2008-04-12

The Pink Medicine Show

0

The Pink Medicine Show
1978-06-09

0

Odd One In
2010-07-17

6.25

Yus, My Dear
1976-01-11

An Audience with...

5.3

An Audience with...
1978-01-08

6.238

Casualty
1986-09-06

5.286

Wogan
1982-05-04

3.556

Loose Women
1999-09-06

Filthy Rich & Catflap

6.643

Filthy Rich & Catflap
1987-01-07

7.143

Screen Two
1985-01-06

9

The Misfit
1970-03-03

7.9

Doctor Who
1963-11-23

7

Mackenzie
1980-09-04

7.4

Shoestring
1979-09-30

Martin Chuzzlewit

8.4

Martin Chuzzlewit
1994-11-07

Murder in Suburbia

7.611

Murder in Suburbia
2004-03-13

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

7

ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969-01-11

At Home with the Braithwaites

6.5

At Home with the Braithwaites
2000-01-20