Judy Loe
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Judith M. "Judy" Loe is an English
actress. She was the widow of actor Richard Beckinsale
and is now married to director Roy Battersby
. She is the mother of actress Kate Beckinsale
.
, Manchester
, Lancashire
, the daughter of Norman Scarborough Loe, who worked in equipment business, and a mother who was a department store worker and model. She attended Urmston Grammar School
and the University of Birmingham
, where she graduated with a BA degree in English and Drama. She then acted in repertory theatres in Crewe and Chester.
. In 1970 she made her debut on British television and her first role was in the ITV Thames television programme Ace of Wands
broadcast 1970-72 as Lillian 'Lillu' Palmer. Following this Loe made guest appearances on other shows such as Z-Cars
, Dixon of Dock Green
, Man at the Top
, Armchair Theatre
and ITV Playhouse.
In 1973 Loe was cast in the role of Alice Lee in a short-lived 5-part BBC Television programme Woodstock, however the show lasted only a single 5 episode series. The same year she gave birth to actress Kate Beckinsale
and in 1974 took time off acting to look after her then baby daughter. In 1975 after a couple months of Loe appeared in the role of Princess May in the ATV
Drama programme Edward the Seventh (1975),
Following this Judy Loe began guest appearing on Comedy & Sitcom when she guest appeared in sitcoms such as Ripping Yarns
, Robin's Nest
, The Upchat Line and Miss Jones and Son
. In 1978 Low appeared in an episode of the television drama Crown Court
shortly before landing the role of Dr Helen Sanders in the final two series of the television drama General Hospital
playing the role from 1978 until 1979.
In 1980 Loe appeared in an episode of Heartland and The Gentle Touch
each before appearing in two episodes of Sunday Night Thriller and three episodes of When the Boat Comes In
(1981), Loe carried on guest appearing in drama programmes right up to 1985 shortly before landing the role of Diane in the television programme Yesterday's Dreams in 1987. In 1988 Loe gained the role of Pamela in the Yorkshire Television
sitcom Singles
with Roger Rees
, this was the first sitcom which Loe had ever starred in and this lasted three series until 1991. In 1990 she took a regular role in The Chief, playing Dr Elizabeth Stafford from 1990 to 1993.
In 1998 she played Commander Kathryn MacTiernan in Space Island One
.
Between 1995 and 2003 played Jan Goddard in both Casualty
and its spin off Holby City
from 2001 to 2003. In 2009 Loe appeared in the medical drama Doctors.
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
actress. She was the widow of actor Richard Beckinsale
Richard Beckinsale
Richard Arthur Beckinsale was an English actor, best known for his roles as Lennie Godber in the popular BBC sitcom Porridge and Alan Moore in the British sitcom Rising Damp....
and is now married to director Roy Battersby
Roy Battersby
Roy Battersby is a British TV director, noted for his work in drama productions such as Between The Lines, Inspector Morse, Cracker and A Touch of Frost. Early in his career he made documentary features for the BBC programmes Tomorrow's World and Towards Tomorrow...
. She is the mother of actress Kate Beckinsale
Kate Beckinsale
Kathryn Bailey "Kate" Beckinsale is an English actress. After some minor television roles, she made her film debut in Much Ado About Nothing while still a student at Oxford University...
.
Early life
Loe was born in UrmstonUrmston
Urmston is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of around 41,000. Historically a part of Lancashire, it lies about six miles to the southwest of Manchester city centre. The southern boundary is marked by the River Mersey and the...
, Manchester
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
, Lancashire
Lancashire
Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...
, the daughter of Norman Scarborough Loe, who worked in equipment business, and a mother who was a department store worker and model. She attended Urmston Grammar School
Urmston Grammar School
Urmston Grammar, known as Urmston Grammar School until September 2010, is a co-educational grammar school in Urmston, Greater Manchester, England. It is a state school within Trafford Local Authority. The school was assessed as "outstanding" in its 2008 Ofsted report...
and the University of Birmingham
University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Birmingham Medical School and Mason Science College . Birmingham was the first Redbrick university to gain a charter and thus...
, where she graduated with a BA degree in English and Drama. She then acted in repertory theatres in Crewe and Chester.
Television fame
Loe was in the original British cast of the rock musical HairHair (musical)
Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement...
. In 1970 she made her debut on British television and her first role was in the ITV Thames television programme Ace of Wands
Ace of Wands
Ace of Wands is a fantasy-based British children's television show broadcast on ITV between 1970 and 1972, created by Trevor Preston and Pamela Lonsdale and produced by Thames Television. The title, taken from the name of a Tarot card describes the principal character, called "Tarot" who combined...
broadcast 1970-72 as Lillian 'Lillu' Palmer. Following this Loe made guest appearances on other shows such as Z-Cars
Z-Cars
Z-Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby in the outskirts of Liverpool in Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.-Origins:The series was developed by...
, Dixon of Dock Green
Dixon of Dock Green
Dixon of Dock Green was a popular BBC television series that ran from 1955 to 1976, and later a radio series. Despite being a drama series, it was initially produced by the BBC's light entertainment department.-Overview:...
, Man at the Top
Man at the Top (TV series)
Man at the Top was a British television series originally aired on ITV lasting for 23 episodes between 1970-1972 . The series depicted the character of Joe Lampton, the protagonist of John Braine's novel Room at the Top and two films Room at the Top and Life at the Top...
, Armchair Theatre
Armchair Theatre
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series, which ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television after 1968....
and ITV Playhouse.
In 1973 Loe was cast in the role of Alice Lee in a short-lived 5-part BBC Television programme Woodstock, however the show lasted only a single 5 episode series. The same year she gave birth to actress Kate Beckinsale
Kate Beckinsale
Kathryn Bailey "Kate" Beckinsale is an English actress. After some minor television roles, she made her film debut in Much Ado About Nothing while still a student at Oxford University...
and in 1974 took time off acting to look after her then baby daughter. In 1975 after a couple months of Loe appeared in the role of Princess May in the ATV
Associated TeleVision
Associated Television, often referred to as ATV, was a British television company, holder of various licences to broadcast on the ITV network from 24 September 1955 until 00:34 on 1 January 1982...
Drama programme Edward the Seventh (1975),
Following this Judy Loe began guest appearing on Comedy & Sitcom when she guest appeared in sitcoms such as Ripping Yarns
Ripping Yarns
Ripping Yarns is a British television comedy series, shown on BBC 2 from 1976 to 1979. It was written by Michael Palin and Terry Jones of Monty Python fame...
, Robin's Nest
Robin's Nest
Robin's Nest is a British sitcom starring Richard O'Sullivan as Robin Tripp, one of the lead characters in the sitcom Man About the House, which had ended in 1976. Robin's Nest aired for six series from 1977 to 1981, and co-starred Tessa Wyatt as Robin's girlfriend and later wife and Tony Britton...
, The Upchat Line and Miss Jones and Son
Miss Jones and Son
Miss Jones and Son was a comedy series first broadcast on ITV in 1977. It starred Paula Wilcox, Christopher Beeny, Charlotte Mitchell and Norman Bird...
. In 1978 Low appeared in an episode of the television drama Crown Court
Crown Court
The Crown Court of England and Wales is, together with the High Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal, one of the constituent parts of the Senior Courts of England and Wales...
shortly before landing the role of Dr Helen Sanders in the final two series of the television drama General Hospital
General Hospital (UK TV series)
General Hospital is a British daytime soap opera produced by ATV which ran on ITV from 1972 to 1979. It was modelled after the American drama of the same name....
playing the role from 1978 until 1979.
In 1980 Loe appeared in an episode of Heartland and The Gentle Touch
The Gentle Touch
The Gentle Touch is a British police drama television series made by London Weekend Television for ITV which ran from 1980-1984. Commencing transmission on 11 April 1980, the series is notable for being the first British series to feature a female police detective as its leading character, ahead of...
each before appearing in two episodes of Sunday Night Thriller and three episodes of When the Boat Comes In
When the Boat Comes In
When the Boat Comes In is a British television period-drama produced by the BBC between 1976 and 1981.The series stars James Bolam as Jack Ford, a First World War veteran who returns to his poverty-stricken town of Gallowshield in the North East of England in the 1920s.The memorable traditional...
(1981), Loe carried on guest appearing in drama programmes right up to 1985 shortly before landing the role of Diane in the television programme Yesterday's Dreams in 1987. In 1988 Loe gained the role of Pamela in the Yorkshire Television
Yorkshire Television
Yorkshire Television, now officially known as ITV Yorkshire and sometimes unofficially abbreviated to YTV, is a British television broadcaster and the contractor for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network...
sitcom Singles
Singles (TV series)
Singles is a British sitcom set in a singles bar produced by Yorkshire Television with the 1984 Pilot Episode produced by Thames Television and aired for 3 series and 22 episodes on the ITV network between 1988 and 1991.- Cast :Pilot :...
with Roger Rees
Roger Rees
Roger Rees is a Welsh actor. He is best known to American audiences for playing the characters Robin Colcord on the American television sitcom show Cheers and Lord John Marbury on the American television drama The West Wing...
, this was the first sitcom which Loe had ever starred in and this lasted three series until 1991. In 1990 she took a regular role in The Chief, playing Dr Elizabeth Stafford from 1990 to 1993.
In 1998 she played Commander Kathryn MacTiernan in Space Island One
Space Island One
Space Island One is a British/German science fiction television series that ran for 26 episodes beginning in 1998. A co-production between the UK's Sky One channel and the German Vox channel, it starred Judy Loe as Kathryn McTiernan, the commander of the multinational crew of the space station...
.
Between 1995 and 2003 played Jan Goddard in both Casualty
Casualty (TV series)
Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...
and its spin off Holby City
Holby City
Holby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999...
from 2001 to 2003. In 2009 Loe appeared in the medical drama Doctors.
Television roles
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 to 1991 | Singles Singles (TV series) Singles is a British sitcom set in a singles bar produced by Yorkshire Television with the 1984 Pilot Episode produced by Thames Television and aired for 3 series and 22 episodes on the ITV network between 1988 and 1991.- Cast :Pilot :... |
Pamela |
Personal life
She has married twice:- First to Richard BeckinsaleRichard BeckinsaleRichard Arthur Beckinsale was an English actor, best known for his roles as Lennie Godber in the popular BBC sitcom Porridge and Alan Moore in the British sitcom Rising Damp....
, from 1977 until his death in 1979 - Second to TV director Roy BattersbyRoy BattersbyRoy Battersby is a British TV director, noted for his work in drama productions such as Between The Lines, Inspector Morse, Cracker and A Touch of Frost. Early in his career he made documentary features for the BBC programmes Tomorrow's World and Towards Tomorrow...
, since 6 March 1997