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Wendy Richard MBE
(born Wendy Emerton on July 20 1943) is a British actress from the East End of London.
She first became familiar to TV audiences playing Joyce Harker, a regular in the BBC's 1960s soap opera, The Newcomers, but found fame in the 1970s sitcom Are You Being Served? as Shirley Brahms, a slow-witted sales representative with a heavy Cockney accent. Richard continued to remain popular as Pauline Fowler on the BBC soap opera EastEnders, a role she has played since the first episode in 1985.
She has also appeared in Dad's Army
, The Likely Lads
and some Carry On films. In 1962 her distinct cockney vocals helped get her to #1 on the UK singles chart - uncredited, on the single,
Come Outside, by Mike Sarne.
She endured a long battle with breast cancer in the early 1990s; her cancer went into remission after years of treatment. Richard was awarded an MBE by the British Government in 1999.
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