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'''Wendy Richard, [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]]''' (born '''Wendy Emerton''' on [[20 July]], [[1943]]) is an [[England|English]] [[actor|actress]] best known for playing Miss Brahms in ''[[Are You Being Served?]]'' and [[Pauline Fowler]] in ''[[EastEnders]]'' from [[1985]] to [[2006]]. |
'''Wendy Richard, [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]]''' (born '''Wendy Emerton''' on [[20 July]], [[1943]]) is an [[England|English]] [[actor|actress]] best known for playing [[Are_You_Being_Served%3F#Miss_Shirley_Brahms|Miss Brahms]] in ''[[Are You Being Served?]]'' and [[Pauline Fowler]] in ''[[EastEnders]]'' from [[1985]] to [[2006]]. |
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Wendy Richard, MBE (born Wendy Emertonon20 July, 1943) is an English actress best known for playing Miss BrahmsinAre You Being Served? and Pauline FowlerinEastEnders from 1985to2006.
Richard was educated at the Royal Masonic School for Girls in Rickmansworth before attending the Italia Conti Academy stage school. She first became familiar to TV audiences playing Joyce Harker, a regular in the BBC's 1960s soap opera, The Newcomers. She has also appeared in Dad's Army (asPrivate Walker's girl-friend Shirley), Up Pompeii, The Likely Lads and several of the Carry On films. In 1962, her distinct cockney vocals also helped get her to #1 on the UK singles chart — uncredited, on the single, Come Outside, by Mike Sarne.
Richard is best known for two roles:
Richard endured a long battle with breast cancer in the early 1990s[citation needed]; her cancer went into remission after years of treatment, but has since returned [2]. Articles about her departure from EastEnders suggest her health challenges may have had a role in her decision to leave the series.
Richard is from Middlesbrough, and was awarded an MBE in 1999.
