Shelah Richards
Irish actress, director and producer
Irish actress, director and producer
Japanese video and photojournalist affiliated with Japan Press.
Irish variety artiste, comedian and actress
Irish theatre and television director
Irish actress
African-American stand-up comic and actor who was active in stage, television and films from the 1910s to 1970s. She was also one of the 20th century’s first openly queer comedians, coming out as a lesbian in 1921.
Transgender former Labour Party Parliamentary candidate, RAF veteran, Premier League Football photographer, self harm and suicide survivor
Davina Whitehouse’s career in performance spanned 70 years, from theatre and film roles in Britain between the 1920s and the 1940s to radio, theatre, television and film roles in New Zealand from the 1950s to the 2000s.
By the age of 18 she was in constant demand as one of Australia’s leading radio stars. During the 1950s, Cecil played the lead in the radio serial Life Can be Beautiful, and had an ongoing role in the serial Doctor Paul. She played one of the Macarthur twins in Blue Hills until 1976 and later starred in several Shakespeare radio plays broadcast by ABC radio. She died in 1998.
Wendy Blacklock acted in some of the most iconic Australian television series of the 1970s, including Skippy, Homicide and Boney and also had a long-running role as ‘Mummy’ in the popular Australian television series Number 96 (1972-1977).