Jill Viola Gascoine was an English actress and novelist. She was Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes in the 1980s television series The Gentle Touch and its spin-off series C. A. T. S. Eyes. In October 2009, it was announced that she was joining the BBC One soap opera EastEnders as Glenda Mitchell, mother of Ronnie and Roxy. She withdrew from her filming commitments, as she felt that she lacked the right experience to film such a big continuing drama.
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Jill Viola Gascoine was an English actress and novelist. She was Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes in the 1980s television series The Gentle Touch and its spin-off series C. A. T. S. Eyes. In the 1990s, she also became a novelist and published three books. In October 2009, it was announced that she was joining the BBC One soap opera EastEnders as Glenda Mitchell, mother of Ronnie and Roxy. However, during her first day on set, she withdrew from her filming commitments, as she felt that she lacked the right experience to film such a big continuing drama.
In 1997, she was diagnosed with kidney cancer, though the disease was detected early and she made a full recovery in June 2013. She suffered from clinical depression for most of her life, which she believed stemmed from her time in a boarding school as a child. She married twice, first to hotelier Bill Keith in 1965 and then to actor Alfred Molina in 1986. She had two sons with her first husband, Bill Keith, before divorcing him in 1972.
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