About
Lynda Bellingham played many roles during her five-decade professional career, but became synonymous with one. "Being a mum making gravy was not quite how I had seen my career advancing," she said once. But between 1983 and 1999 that's what she did in 42 "episodes" of an award-winning TV ad. Since the early 1980s, her name was rarely mentioned in print without it being prefaced with "Oxo mum". During her career, though, she starred on TV as the vet's wife Helen Herriot in All Creatures Great and Small in the 80s and as one of two divorcees trying to forge a relationship in the 90s sitcom Second Thoughts, opposite James Bolam. On stage she was best known for playing the lead in a touring production of Calendar Girls between 2008 and 2012. She was also, for four years between 2007 and 2011, a regular member of the team on Loose Women, the daytime TV chat show. She had few regrets about...
Known for
Midsomer MurdersSeries • 1997
Doctor WhoSeries • 1963
CasualtySeries • 1986
Z-CarsSeries • 1962
Screen TwoSeries • 1985
Waking the DeadSeries • 2001
New TricksSeries • 2004
The ProfessionalsSeries • 1977
Dalziel and PascoeSeries • 1996
All Creatures Great and SmallSeries • 1978
ITV Saturday Night TheatreSeries • 1969
Blake's 7Series • 1978
The SweeneySeries • 1975
AngelsSeries • 1975
Robin HoodSeries • 2006
ShoestringSeries • 1979
Murder in SuburbiaSeries • 2004
Filthy Rich & CatflapSeries • 1987
Confessions of a Driving InstructorMovie • 1976
Sweeney!Movie • 1977