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Amanda Barrie (born Shirley Anne Broadbent on 14 September 1935 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire) is an English actress. Amanda Barrie, in an interview from 2000. ...
Coronation Street is an award winning British soap opera. ...
is the 257th day of the year (258th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ...
is the 257th day of the year (258th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ...
Ashton-under-Lyne is a town in Greater Manchester with a population of 44,400 (2001 estimate). ...
Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ...
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Career
Barrie is probably best known for her role as a café proprietor's wife, Alma Sedgewick (later Baldwin), on the British soap opera Coronation Street. She was a bit player in the early to mid 1980s before she was offered a contract in 1988 where she became a very well-known character. She played the role until she decided to retire in 2001. In the story, Alma was diagnosed with terminal cervical cancer which later caused her death. Alma Halliwell previously Alma Baldwin and Alma Sedgewick, played by Amanda Barrie, was a fictional character on the soap opera Coronation Street. ...
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Coronation Street is an award winning British soap opera. ...
Cervical cancer is a malignant cancer of the cervix. ...
Barrie has acted in a number of British television and film roles in the 1960s and 1970s. She was also in two of the Carry On films which was an extensive series of British comedy films, perhaps most notably in the title role of Carry on Cleo. British television broadcasting has a range of different broadcasters, broadcasting multiple channels over a variety of distribution media. ...
The United Kingdom has been influential in the technological, commercial and artistic development of cinema. ...
The Carry On films were a long-running series of British low-budget comedy films, directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rogers. ...
The word comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humor with an intent to provoke laughter in general). ...
Carry On Cleo is the tenth film in the Carry On film series. ...
Since leaving Coronation Street, she has continued to act in the popular ITV1 prison series, Bad Girls, playing inmate Bev Tull from the fifth series to the last, along with Phyl Oswyn played by Stephanie Beacham. The characters together were known as "The Costa Cons". She also became one of the celebrities who took part in Hell's Kitchen; a popular ITV1 "reality TV" series which screened in 2004. While on the show, she became so frustrated with Gordon Ramsay, that she tried to slap him across the face. ITV1 is the name, in England, Wales and the Scottish borders, for a terrestrial, free-to-air television channel, broadcast in the United Kingdom by the ITV network. ...
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Stephanie Beacham (born 28 February 1947) is an English actress who has had an extensive acting career. ...
Hells Kitchen is a British cookery-based ITV reality show. ...
Reality television is a genre of television programming in which the fortunes of real life people (as opposed to fictional characters played by actors) are followed. ...
Gordon James Ramsay OBE (born November 8, 1966 in Johnstone, Scotland) is a Scottish celebrity chef and currently one of only three chefs in the UK whose restaurant is rated at three Michelin stars. ...
From November to January 2006, Amanda took a starring role in the pantomime adaption of Jack and the Beanstalk in Canterbury, Kent. The Christmas Pantomime colour lithograph bookcover, 1890 Pantomime (informally, panto) refers to a theatrical genre, traditionally found in Great Britain, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and Ireland, which is usually performed around the Christmas and New Year holiday season. ...
Illustration by Arthur Rackham from a 1918 English Fairy Tales, by Flora Annie Steel Jack and the Beanstalk is an English fairy tale, closely associated with the tale of Jack the Giant Killer. ...
Canterbury is a cathedral city in east Kent in South East England and is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Primate of All England, head of the Church of England and of the worldwide Anglican Communion. ...
The Kent coat of arms For other uses, see Kent (disambiguation). ...
Personal life She was married to the theatre director Robin Hunter (1967-2004).
Amanda's autobiography It's Not a Rehearsal has become a best seller since it was published in 2003. Having kept her personal life very private, Amanda decided in her autobiography to be more open about being a bisexual. [1] In human sexuality, bisexuality describes a man or woman having a sexual orientation to persons of either or both sexes (a man or woman who sexually likes both sexes; people who are sexually and/or romantically attracted to both males and females). ...
Selected filmography Carry on Cabby is the seventh Carry On film. ...
Carry On Cleo is the tenth film in the Carry On film series. ...
Ive Gotta Horse was Liverpool pop sensation Billy Furys first smash hit feature film. ...
Are You Being Served? was a long-running British sitcom broadcast from 1972 to 1985. ...
Coronation Street is an award winning British soap opera. ...
Dick Whittington is a character in British pantomime, very loosely based on the real-life Richard Whittington. ...
Hells Kitchen is a British cookery-based ITV reality show. ...
It has been suggested that Pat Kerrigan be merged into this article or section. ...
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