Polly James (born 8th July, 1941) is a British actress best known for her role as Beryl Hennessey in the BBC situation comedy The Liver Birds. In 1967 she played Audrey Hargreaves on Coronation Street, and her other credits include Doctor Who and Casualty.
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| - Polly James (born 8th July, 1941) is a British actress best known for her role as Beryl Hennessey in the BBC situation comedy The Liver Birds. In 1967 she played Audrey Hargreaves on Coronation Street, and her other credits include Doctor Who and Casualty.
- She is the mother to actor Adam James, who appeared in Planet of the Dead.
- After graduating from RADA, her TV career began in BBC2's Thirty minute theatre , followed by the role of a drug addict in Z Cars in 1967. She played Audrey Hargreaves in Coronation Street in 1967. She is best known for her role as Beryl Hennessey in the first four series of the British sitcom The Liver Birds (1969-74), with Nerys Hughes (from the second series onwards). The series had started in April 1969 as an episode of Comedy Playhouse, the BBC's breeding ground for sitcoms. She played Cicely Courtneidge in the biographical musical of the actress Once More with Music in 1976, appeared as a soubrette in Alan Clarke's 1982 production of Baal, and in Doctor Who in 1984. She appeared, too, in the West End musicals, I and Albert and Anne of Green Gables.
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| - After graduating from RADA, her TV career began in BBC2's Thirty minute theatre , followed by the role of a drug addict in Z Cars in 1967. She played Audrey Hargreaves in Coronation Street in 1967. She is best known for her role as Beryl Hennessey in the first four series of the British sitcom The Liver Birds (1969-74), with Nerys Hughes (from the second series onwards). The series had started in April 1969 as an episode of Comedy Playhouse, the BBC's breeding ground for sitcoms. She played Cicely Courtneidge in the biographical musical of the actress Once More with Music in 1976, appeared as a soubrette in Alan Clarke's 1982 production of Baal, and in Doctor Who in 1984. She appeared, too, in the West End musicals, I and Albert and Anne of Green Gables. In conjunction with her acting career, Polly James developed her directing and teaching skills both in the London theatre and in drama-based development workshops with the internationally renowned Skyros community.
- Polly James (born 8th July, 1941) is a British actress best known for her role as Beryl Hennessey in the BBC situation comedy The Liver Birds. In 1967 she played Audrey Hargreaves on Coronation Street, and her other credits include Doctor Who and Casualty.
- She is the mother to actor Adam James, who appeared in Planet of the Dead.
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