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Angela Bruce was born in Leeds to an English mother and Trinidadian father. Despite an inauspicious start in life after her mother was forced to place her in a children's home, where the matron considered her "too coloured" to be adopted, her life changed dramatically at the age of three, when she chose the family she wanted to adopt her. Angela grew up as the only black child in a tiny mining village in the north-east of England and enjoyed an idyllic rough-and-tumble childhood climbing trees and riding horses. Raised by her adoptive family to be happy in her own skin, Angela came of age after a Cinderella-like break into show business when the musical Hair came to Newcastle and she was plucked from the audience to dance on stage and later audition for the show, joining the cast ten days later to tour the UK for two years. Soon after that, she joined the original cast of the Rocky Horror Show, with Tim Curry and Richard O'Brien.Since, then, in an acting career spanning five decades, Angela has played a myriad of characters on the stage, screen and radio. In 1975 she came to notice as the gutsy Sandra Ling, in the trailblazing BBC TV series Angels (1975) about nurses, and, three years later, was even more prominent as one half of a multiracial extramarital affair, the first of its kind, in Coronation Street (1960). Fittingly for an actress who began her television career playing a nurse, in 2005 she took the title role in the acclaimed TV drama-documentary Mary Seacole: The Real Angel of the Crimea (2005), Mary Seacole being a Jamaican 'doctress', a contemporary of Florence Nightingale's during the Crimean War who was famous for using herbal remedies to treat British soldiers, and Victorian Britain's first black celebrity.Among the many television roles she has played, Angela is popular among fans for her turns as prison warden Mandy Goodhue in Bad Girls, Brigadier Winifred Bambera in Doctor Who, Lister's female double in Red Dwarf and Councillor Murray in Only Fools and Horses. The Batman and Robin episode in which she starred attracted an audience of 22 million people, with one of her scenes being voted one of the funniest television moments of all time in a national poll. Her theatre roles include the eponymous heroine in Educating Rita and Polly Peachum in The Threepenny Opera. She presented the BBC educational series Science Challenge and an episode of the BBC Civilisations series about the Roman presence in north-east England. She was made an ambassador for Derwentside, an honour bestowed upon local people who have raised the profile of the north east. - IMDb Mini Biography By: AB Assistant

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