Roberta Taylor

Roberta Taylor

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Roberta Taylor (born 1948 in London), is an English actress.She is best known for the roles of Irene Raymond in "EastEnders", and Inspector Gina Gold in "The Bill".

Before becoming a household name thanks to her appearances on television, she worked in the theatre and appeared at the Glasgow Citizens Theatre from 1980 to 1992. During that period, she played La Duchesse de Guermantes in a stage adaptation of Marcel Proust's "A la recherche du temps perdu" ("Remembrance of Things Past") entitled "A Waste of Time", in which Rupert Everett and Gary Oldman were also in the cast. She was also seen in Noel Coward's "Design for Living", Oscar Wilde's "A Woman of No Importance" and "An Ideal Husband". She was the Princess Kosmonopolis in Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth" in 1992, and in 1995 played the Nurse in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" at the Lyric Hammersmith.

She has also appeared in episodes of the television series "Doctors", "Holby City", "Silent Witness", "Inspector Morse". She has appeared as a guest on "The Paul O'Grady Show" and in the films "The Witches" (1990), "Tom & Viv" (1994), and "The Turnaround" (1994).

In 2005, she played Mrs Pardiggles in the BBC's drama serial adaptation of Charles Dickens' "Bleak House". She has been married to the actor Peter Guinness since September 1996, he has also appeared in a few episodes of "The Bill", to which she is a regular cast member in, Peter actually played her lover, ironic as he's also her real-life lover and husband.

She has been arachnophobic since the age of 12.Fact|date=July 2007

A strong rumour, circulating online in the spring of 2007, has it that the new play "Mrs Radcliffe" is to be offered to Ms Taylor. Fact|date=May 2007it was annouced in September 2008 that Roberta would be leaving the ITV 1 show the bill

Biography

Her first book, "Too Many Mothers", a memoir of an East London childhood, was published in October 2005.

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