Judy Bennett

Judy Bennett
Born 1943
Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Occupation Actor
Known for The Archers
Spouse(s) Charles Collingwood
Relatives

Judy Bennett (born 1943) is a Liverpudlian voice actor whose career in radio began with the long-running soap opera The Archers, in which she has played the role of Shula Hebden Lloyd since 1971.[2] She played Shula's twin brother Kenton and younger sister Elizabeth before assuming the role of Shula herself.[3]

She has voiced characters in a number of cartoon series, including The Perishers (1979) and Dennis the Menace and Gnasher in the late 1990s.[4]

She attended Notre Dame Mount Pleasant High School (a girls' catholic grammar school, now St Julie's Catholic High School) in Liverpool.

Bennett studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.[2] In 1976 she married Canadian-English actor Charles Collingwood,[5] who plays Archers character Brian Aldridge. Actress Jane Collingwood (b. 1979) is their daughter.[6]

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Notes

  1. 1 2 Copping, Jasper (2 January 2014). "All change in Ambridge as 'Tony Archer' retires". The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
  2. 1 2 "How We Met: Charles Collingwood and Judy Bennett". The Independent. 7 January 1996. Archived from the original on 2015-03-23. Retrieved 2013-01-06.
  3. ↑ Collingwood 2011, pp. 79–80.
  4. ↑ "The Voices of Judy Bennett". Behind the Voice Actors. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
  5. ↑ Collingwood 2011, p. 92.
  6. ↑ Collingwood 2011, p. 95.

References

  • Collingwood, Charles (2011). Brian and Me: Life on—and off—The Archers. London: Michael O'Mara Books. ISBN 978-1-84317-755-5. OCLC 763156121.
  • Judy Bennett on IMDb
  • "The Archers: Shula Hebden Lloyd". BBC Radio 4. BBC. Retrieved 7 September 2014.

Further reading

  • "What can The Archers tell us about changing accents?". abdn.ac.uk. University of Aberdeen. 10 February 2016. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
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