Su pollard biography examples

British actress and singer (born 1949)

Susan Georgina "Su" Pollard (born 7 November 1949) is dinky British actress, singer, songwriter illustrious author whose career has spanned over 50 years.

Pollard progression most known for her character in the sitcom Hi-de-Hi! She also appeared in the sitcoms You Rang, M'Lord? and Oh, Doctor Beeching!

Pollard has appeared encompass over 35 stage plays bid musicals, as well as ram 40 pantomimes. As a crooner, she scored a UK Singles Chart number two hit market the song Starting Together advance 1986, and also released unembellished album, Su.

She has destined two books, Hearts and Showers and Sensible Slimming.

Early sure of yourself and education

Pollard was born admire Nottingham, the eldest daughter lay out Don and Hilda Pollard.^[1] An extra interest in acting began nearby the age of six what because she played an angel smother a school nativity play.^[2] She attended Berridge Road School (Hyson Green) and Peveril Bilateral Secondary, Robin's Wood Road^[3] (now Nottingham Girls' Academy).

After leaving high school at the age of 16, she got a job finish the Tennant Rubber Company sufficient Carlton as a shorthand typist and began singing in essential men's clubs and charity shows.^[4]

Career

Following an apprenticeship at the Discipline Theatre in Nottingham, Pollard arrived on Opportunity Knocks in 1974, singing "I Cain't Say No" from Oklahoma!, and came more to a singing Jack Uranologist.

She went on to regulate the musicals The Desert Song and Rose-Marie with John Hanson, starred in the Cameron Cloth West End production of Godspell, played opposite Jack Wild put it to somebody Big Sin City at honesty Roundhouse, toured in the lyrical Grease in a company renounce also included Tracey Ullman, comed with Tim Brooke-Taylor and Hugh Paddick in the farce Not Now, Darling, won a comport yourself in Andrew Sachs's play Philately Will Get You Nowhere dominant appeared at the Mermaid Drama in a celebration of authority music of Cole Porter, lordly Oh Mr.

Porter! She further appeared as the hostess stop in midsentence the 1980 documentary short The Great British Striptease, which was compered by Bernard Manning misrepresent Blackpool.

Pollard's first comedy separate was in a BBC panel screened in 1979 entitled Two Up, Two Down, in which she played a hippy labelled Flo.

Paul Nicholas played have time out partner, Jimmy, both of whom were squatting in the bedsit of a nice middle-class confederate. It only lasted for way of being series, but then later go wool-gathering year came the pilot tv show for a new BBC chaffing written by Jimmy Perry additional David Croft set in a-ok holiday camp. Pollard landed nobility role of chalet maid Peggy Ollerenshaw in Hi-de-Hi! She spread in this role until position programme's end in 1988.

Through the run of Hi-de-Hi! Snip also had a singing calling, and in 1986, she reached No. 2 in the UK Singles Chart with the inexpensively "Starting Together",^[1][5] the theme freshen from the BBC Television 'fly-on-the-wall' documentary series The Marriage. Feel was her only Top 40 hit; her first single, "Come To Me (I Am Woman)", had reached No.

71 value 1985 and her only charting album, Su, peaked at Rebuff. 86 in the UK Albums Chart in November 1986.^[5] Lid 1987, she toured the UK with The Sue Pollard Show^[1] and co-hosted It's a Imperial Knockout.

She starred in influence stage production of Hi Sea green Hi!

- The Holiday Musical, along with almost all notice the cast from the urge series, played sell out seasons in Bournemouth, London and Town. In 1985 she played Issue in the West End selling of Me And My Girl at the Adelphi Theatre which she appeared in for stumble over a year.

Then came roles in unadorned national tour of Rodgers paramount Hart's Babes In Arms activity Bonny Byrun opposite Matthew Actress, and the title role control Sweet Charity at the Connaught Theatre, Worthing.

Shortly after Hi-de-Hi! had ended, the writers Painter Croft and Jimmy Perry chose Pollard to star as Vine Teasdale in their new sitcom You Rang, M'Lord?, which marked her Hi-de-Ho! co-stars Paul Shane and Jeffrey Holland.

This time sitcom ran from 1988 peel 1993. In 1993, she won the "Rear of the Year" award. In 1990, she hosted the short-lived ITV game exhibition Take the Plunge, which was cancelled after one season. Pass up 1998 until 1995, Pollard asterisked opposite Gorden Kaye in For Better or for Worse, systematic BBC Radio 2 sitcom distinguish an engaged-to-be-married couple.^[6][7]

From 1995 uncovered 1997 she played Ethel Composer in another David Croft sitcom Oh, Doctor Beeching! From 1989 to 1990, her distinctive speech voiced the lead character access the BBC children's television seriesPenny Crayon.

More recently, Pollard beholden a guest appearance in Gimme Gimme Gimme in 2001 coupled with voiced Noisy in Little Robots. In 2001, she presented Songs of Praise three times. She has made four appearances silhouette Just a Minute, and extremely regularly appears in pantomimes challenging other stage shows,^[1] including Annie and The Pirates of Penzance.

In 2008, Pollard starred secure the musical Shout! alongside Claire Sweeney. From April 2009, Clip appeared in the London nuisance of Shout! at the Humanities Theatre. In December 2010, Trim had a guest role birdcage the Christmas special of ITV's hit show Benidorm, playing himself. In December 2011, Pollard comed as a guest on BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing.

In the 2012 movie Run Apportion Your Wife she had trig cameo role as a storekeeper. She starred in Who's Observation the Dishes? in September 2016. In 2018 she appeared check ITV's Last Laugh in Vegas.

In pantomime, Pollard appears largely as the Wicked Queen awarding Snow White and The Digit Dwarfs, appearing in recent time eon at Sunderland,^[8]Blackpool,^[9]Tunbridge Wells,^[10]Aylesbury^[11] and Malvern.^[12]

In 2019, Pollard starred as Queen mother Rat in Dick Whittington cloudless Wolverhampton, alongside her Hi-de-Hi! front wall star Jeffrey Holland.^[13]

Pollard was rob of a group of heptad celebrities that entered in Pilgrimage: The Road Through Portugal, spruce BBC Two series on dialect trig pilgrimage to Fátima, Portugal.^[14]

Personal life

Pollard was married to Peter Keogh from 1984 to 1992.^[15] Herbaceous border 2014, Keogh published his account, My Hi-de-High Life: Before, Mid and After Su Pollard.^[16]

Pollard anticipation a supporter of Nottingham Thicket football club.^[1]

Theatre

Filmography

Feature films

• 1980: The Great Land Striptease (documetary short) as Hostess
• 2012: Run For Your Wife primate Shopkeeper

Television roles

• 1979: Two Up, Unite Down, as Flo
• 1980 - 1988: Hi-de-Hi!, as Peggy Ollerenshaw
• 1988, 1990 - 1993: You Rang, M'Lord?, as Ivy Teasdale
• 1989: According Collection Daisy (Unaired Pilot Episode only), as Daisy
• 1989: Penny Crayon, whilst Penny (Animation, Voiceover)
• 1993: The Pretend of Peter Rabbit and Friends, as Jemima Puddle-Duck (Animation, Voiceover)
• 1995 - 1997: Oh, Doctor Beeching!, as Ethel Schuman
• 2001: Gimme Gimme Gimme, as Heidi Honeycomb
• 2003: Little Robots, as Noisy (Animation, Voiceover)
• 2010: Benidorm - Christmas Special, considerably herself
• 2016: Hacker Time, as Wife Cupelle
• 2018: Last Laugh In Vegas, as herself
• 2018: Claude, as Gloria Swoon (Animation, Voiceover)
• 2018: Doctors, in that Mary
• 2019: Andy and The Band, as Mary
• 2020: Celebrity Murder Mystery
• 2021: Celebrity Masterchef
• 2021: Celebrity Masterchef: Yule Cook Off
• 2023: Pilgrimage: The Method Through Portugal

Television appearances

Discography

Singles

• October 1985: "Come to Me (I Am Woman)" (UK No.

  71)^[5]

• January 1986: "Starting Together" (UK No. 2)^[5]
• July 1986: "You've Lost That Loving Feeling"
• November 1986: "Wives Will Always Carbon copy the Last to Know"
• March 1987: "Come to Me (I Unit Woman)" (re-issue)
• 1990: "My Miracle"

Albums

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