Lynda Bellingham, OBE, was an English actress, broadcaster and author. She acted in television series such as All Creatures Great and Small, Doctor Who, Second Thoughts and Faith in the Future. She appeared as a panellist on the ITV lunchtime chat show Loose Women between 2007 and 2011. She died of cancer in 2014 at the age of 69, having been diagnosed with lung cancer in 2007.
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Lynda Bellingham, OBE, was an English actress, broadcaster and author. She acted in television series such as All Creatures Great and Small, Doctor Who, Second Thoughts and Faith in the Future. She was also known for her appearances as the mother in the long-running series of \”Oxo Family\” British TV advertisements between 1983 and 1999. She appeared as a panellist on the ITV lunchtime chat show Loose Women between 2007 and 2011. In 2009, Bellingham was one of the contestants in the seventh series of Strictly Come Dancing, where she was partnered with Darren Bennett. In 2010, she was the voice-over for the series Mirroring Life, a follow-up series of the same name in 2014. Bellingham’s son, actor Michael Peluso, played her character in a short film entitled Too Close for Comfort, playing the character of a mother to her real-life son. She died of cancer in 2014 at the age of 69, having been diagnosed with lung cancer in 2007.
She is survived by her son, Michael Pelo, and her mother, the former actress and TV presenter, Helen Herriot, who died in 2011. She also leaves behind a husband and two children. She made her television début as a nurse in an ITV afternoon soap opera of the 1970s, General Hospital. In 1981, she appeared in the ITV comedy-drama Funny Man set in the music hall of the late 1920s. She starred as Emily Marlowe in the film The Scarlet Tunic in 1998, and appeared in Gleb Panfilov’s The Romanovs: A Crowned Family as Empress Alexandra the following year. She had a recurring role in The Bill as villainess Irene Radford for several months in 2004. She played DCI Karen Hardwick in a 2007 episode of New Tricks. In 2012, she presented her own cookery series called My Tasty Travels with Lynda Bellingham.
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