Biography
Angela Bruce (born 6 May 1951) is an English actress, noted for her television work. Bruce was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire to a West Indian father and white mother, but was put up for adoption aged three, and brought up in Craghead, County Durham.
Bruce made her screen debut in the 1973 film Man at the Top, and on the London stage she was the second actress to play Magenta in the original production of The Rocky Horror Show, succeeding Patricia Quinn. Regular or recurring roles in television series include Sandra Ling in Angels (1975β83), Janice Stubbs in Coronation Street (1978) and reporter Chrissie Stuart in Press Gang (1989β90). In 1980, she appeared in "Charlie Boy", an episode of Hammer House of Horror.
Bruce is also recognisable to sci-fi fans for her performance as Brigadier Winifred Bambera in the 1989 Doctor Who serial Battlefield, her female Lister in Red Dwarf and her portrayal of Dayna Mellanby in the Blake's 7 audio drama The Syndeton Experiment.
Her other notable credits include Prime Suspect and Only Fools and Horses in which she played Councillor Murray. She also appeared as prison officer Mandy Goodhue in the popular ITV1 prison drama series Bad Girls; this was the second time she had appeared in a British women's prison drama series, having played tough inmate Bobbie in an episode of Within These Walls titled "The Good Life".
Bruce played Gina in the 2002 film Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War and in 2008 she guest-starred in the Sapphire & Steel audio dramas Second Sight and Zero. She also guest-starred in Old Wounds, a 2015 episode of Vera in which she played Beryl Doyle, mother of a murder victim found buried, having gone missing 30 years earlier. In June 2020, she appeared in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors as Carmen Few.
Filmography
all 31
TV Shows 21
Movies 10
self 2
Silver Haze (2023)
Doctor Who Am I (2022)
HIM (2016)
Death in Paradise (2011)
Vera (2011)
Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War (2003)
Spooks (2002)
Waking the Dead (2001)
The Ghost Hunter (2000)
Bad Girls (1999)
Keeping Mum (1997)
Our Friends in the North (1996)
Red Dwarf: Smeg Outs (1995)
Takin' Over the Asylum (1994)
Waiting for God (1990)
The Upper Hand (1990)
Doctor Who: Battlefield (1989)
Press Gang (1989)
South Of The Border (1988)
Red Dwarf (1988)
Up Line (1987)
Lovejoy (1986)
Dempsey and Makepeace (1985)
Hammer House of Horror (1980)
Rock Follies (1976)
Matchfit (1976)
Through the Night (1975)
Lucky (1974)
Man at the Top (1973)
Van der Valk (1972)
Doctor Who (1963)
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GenderFemale
Birthday1951-01-01 (73 years old)
Birth PlaceLeeds, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
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