Judy Bennett
British actress
- David Troughton (cousin)[1]
Judy Bennett (born 1943) is a British voice actress whose career in radio began with the long-running soap opera The Archers, in which she played the role of Shula Hebden-Lloyd from 1971 to 2022, reappearing in 2023 after a break.[2][3] She played Shula's twin brother Kenton and younger sister Elizabeth before assuming the role of Shula herself.[4]
She has voiced characters in a number of cartoon series, including The Perishers (1979) and Dennis the Menace and Gnasher in the late 1990s.[5]
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,[6] who plays Archers character Brian Aldridge. Actress Jane Collingwood (born 1979) is their daughter.[7]
See also
- List of The Archers characters
- List of voice actors
Notes
- ^ Davies, Keri (2 January 2014). "David Troughton is the new Tony Archer". BBC Archers. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
- ^ a b "How We Met: Charles Collingwood and Judy Bennett". The Independent. 7 January 1996. Archived from the original on 23 March 2015. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - The Archers - Half a century as Shula: Judy Bennett looks back at her time in The Archers". BBC. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
- ^ Collingwood 2011, pp. 79–80.
- ^ "The Voices of Judy Bennett". Behind the Voice Actors. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
- ^ Collingwood 2011, p. 92.
- ^ 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.
External links
- Judy Bennett at 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 3 May 2016.
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