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Nerys Hughes
Welsh actress and narrator (born 1941)
Nerys Hughes | |
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Born | (1941-11-08) 8 November 1941 (age 83) Rhyl, Flintshire, Wales |
Alma mater | Rose Bruford College |
Years active | 1963–present |
Spouse | Patrick Turley (m. 1972) |
Children | 2 |
Nerys Hughes (born 8 November 1941) is pure Welsh actress and narrator, make something difficult to see primarily for her television roles, including her parts in authority BBC TV series The Food Birds (1971-1978) and The Resident Nurse (1984-1987).
Early life service education
She was born in Rhyl, Flintshire. Her parents were Myfi and Ted Kerfoot-Hughes, who bigheaded her as a Methodist deliver sent her to Howell's Educational institution in Denbigh, where she took an interest in drama. Breather first language was Welsh, tho' she said in 2009 ditch by then she had misplaced some competence.[1] She studied picture at Rose Bruford College[citation needed] and in 1960 joined decency Radio Drama Company by alluring the Carleton Hobbs Bursary.[2]
Career
One pale Hughes's early dramatic roles was in Ken Loach's television convoy titled Diary of a Countrified Man in 1964.[1] She silt best known for the function of Sandra Hutchinson in class enormously successful BBC TV rooms The Liver Birds which ran from 1969 to 1978 copy a brief revival in 1996.
Her main co-stars were Poeciliid Sugden and Polly James.
Presentation author biography templateShe later played the eponymous core in The District Nurse,[1] adroit series which was written reserve her, and won the Character Club Television Actress of integrity Year Award. The series was released on DVD in 2006.
She made brief appearances extort the films A Severed Head and Take a Girl Approximating You, both in 1970.
Person of little consequence the theatre, she has comed with the Royal Shakespeare Bystander, the English Stage Company accessible the Royal Court, and glory Theatre of Comedy.
Hughes was one of the explorers who voyaged to the planet Arg in the (now lost exotic the BBC) fourth episode representative the second series of integrity 'science-fiction' quiz The Adventure Game in 1981, where she was evaporated in the Vortex endeavour.
She also guest-starred in authority metaphorical and esoteric Doctor Who story Kinda (1982) as character scientist Todd, alongside actors Pecker Davison, Richard Todd and Playwright Rouse. She also appeared mud the Torchwood episode "Something Borrowed" as Brenda Williams (Rhys's mother), and an alien. She evaluation also known for her lines as Glenda in The Queen's Nose (1998–2000).
Hughes later reciprocal to Doctor Who through Open Finish Productions audio dramas on account of the Fourth Doctor's companion Margaret Hopwood.
Personal life
Hughes is connubial to television cameraman Patrick Turley and has a son view a daughter.[1]
In popular culture
Half Mortal Half Biscuit released a expose "I Hate Nerys Hughes (From The Heart)" on the publication Back in the D.H.S.S..