Brenda Longman

Brenda Longman is an English actress and voice artist best for playing the voice of Soo (the British glove puppet and TV character from the Sooty show) since the 1980s.

Longman has played the voice of Soo in the live action shows since 1981. When the then new owners of Sooty Hit Entertainment, overhauled the series, Sheila Clark took over and became the voice in the second and third series of the Sooty Heights re-vamp shortened to just Sooty from 2002 - 2004. This was the first time she had been replaced since the cartoon series of sooty entitled Sooty's Amazing Adventures. Brenda was brought back to voice Soo in 2007, and has continued to do so ever since.

Brenda has also made many appearances throughout Sooty's run on TV. Her most notable character being 'Mo' (often known as "Mo from t' Market") in the long-running Sooty & Co. series from 1993-1998. Longman re-introduced the character in the straight to DVD release 'Sooty Big Day Out' in 2008. There were plans to revive Mo in the new series but this never came to pass. She also plays minor, background roles in the latest series of Sooty. In the first season of the 2011 series of Sooty, she can be seen attending Sooty and Soo's imaginary wedding in the episode, The Wedding. In The Great Race, she lends Richard and Sweep her mobility scooter and in The Runaway Bath she can be seen moving out of the way of Sweep's runaway bath with Wink Taylor. In the second series, she provided the scream at the end of Fitness Funatic, was seen in person when she attended the grand opening of the new toilet in The New Building and played a lady with an ice-cream twice; first in Five Star Fish alongside Wink Taylor and again in The Genie this time alongside Brian Sandford. She was also a customer for Sooty, Sweep and Soo's spicy soup stall in Fireworks and took part in the dog show in It's a Dog's Life. She also voices the telephone operators when Richard enquiries about his luxury holiday in Some Holiday. All these roles are uncredited. She did receive credit for her role in Sooty's ABC Adventure.

Other Credits

Longman played a small role in the BBC TV film 'Tomorrow La Scala'.

In The Sooty Show series, she played a few minor roles such as a bowls player and a dinnerlady.^[1]

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