Cheryl Hall
Encyclopedia
Cheryl Hall is a British
actress.
She is best known for playing the role of Shirley, the girlfriend of Wolfie Smith in the British sitcom
Citizen Smith
.
She also appeared in Dear Mother, Love Albert playing Rodney Bewes' screen girlfriend.
She played an inmate in one episode of Within These Walls (1974).
She also had small roles in EastEnders
and in the Doctor Who
story Carnival of Monsters
in 1973. Film appearances included the Avarice segment of The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
.
She was married to the actor Robert Lindsay
from 1974 to 1980.
Cheryl stood for election as the Labour Party
parliamentary candidate for Canterbury
in the 1997 General Election.
She has recently said that she will be leaving Parkside [Chesterfield] on 6 November.
She also served as a member of Kent County Council
, holding the position of Leader of the Labour group for a period.
She still acts occasionally, most recently in The Bill
(2005), but her main job is now teaching.
United Kingdom
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actress.
She is best known for playing the role of Shirley, the girlfriend of Wolfie Smith in the British sitcom
British sitcom
A British sitcom tends, as it does in most other countries, to be based on a family, workplace or other institution, where the same group of contrasting characters is brought together in each episode. Unlike American sitcoms, where twenty or more episodes in a season is the norm, British sitcoms...
Citizen Smith
Citizen Smith
Citizen Smith is a British television sitcom. The show was written by John Sullivan, who later wrote Only Fools and Horses. The pilot was transmitted on 12 April 1977 in the Comedy Special series of one-off plays, and the series proper ran from 3 November 1977 to 31 December 1980.Citizen Smith...
.
She also appeared in Dear Mother, Love Albert playing Rodney Bewes' screen girlfriend.
She played an inmate in one episode of Within These Walls (1974).
She also had small roles in EastEnders
EastEnders
EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...
and in the Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
story Carnival of Monsters
Carnival of Monsters
Carnival of Monsters is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 27 January to 17 February 1973....
in 1973. Film appearances included the Avarice segment of The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a 1971 British comedy film directed and produced by Graham Stark. Its title is a conflation of The Magnificent Seven and the seven deadly sins. It comprises a sequence of seven sketches, each representing a sin and written by an array of British comedy-writing...
.
She was married to the actor Robert Lindsay
Robert Lindsay (actor)
Robert Lindsay is an English actor who is best known for his television work, especially his roles of Wolfie Smith in Citizen Smith, Michael Murray in G.B.H., Captain Sir Edward Pellew in Hornblower and Ben Harper in My Family which has been on television screens since 2000.-Early life:Lindsay was...
from 1974 to 1980.
Cheryl stood for election as the Labour Party
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
parliamentary candidate for Canterbury
Canterbury (UK Parliament constituency)
Canterbury is a county constituency which has been represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom since 1918. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....
in the 1997 General Election.
She has recently said that she will be leaving Parkside [Chesterfield] on 6 November.
She also served as a member of Kent County Council
Kent County Council
Kent County Council is the county council that governs the majority of the county of Kent in England. It provides the upper tier of local government, below which are 12 district councils, and around 300 town and parish councils. The county council has 84 elected councillors...
, holding the position of Leader of the Labour group for a period.
She still acts occasionally, most recently in The Bill
The Bill
The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...
(2005), but her main job is now teaching.
Selected filmography
- No Sex Please, We're BritishNo Sex Please, We're British (film)No Sex Please, We're British is a 1973 British comedy film directed by Cliff Owen and starring Ronnie Corbett, Ian Ogilvy, Susan Penhaligon and Arthur Lowe...
(1973) - The 14The 14The 14 is a 1973 British film directed by David Hemmings. It was also released as Existence and, in the USA, as The Wild Little Bunch. It was entered into the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear.-Cast:...
(1973)