Gillian Taylforth
Gillian Taylforth was born in Islington, England, United Kingdom on August 14th, 1955 and is the Soap Opera Actress. At the age of 68, Gillian Taylforth biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Gillian Taylforth (born 14 August 1955) is an English actress.
She is best known for her appearances on BBC soap opera EastEnders as Kathy Beale, and she has also appeared on ITV's Footballers' Wives as Jackie Pascoe (2002–2006), and more recently as Sgt.
In the Film version of ITV's The Bill (2006–08), Nikki Wright.
She has appeared in film during her youth, has appeared on ITV's Loose Women, and appeared on Strictly Come Dancing in 2008. She was a contestant in Celebrity Big Brother in January 2013.
Sandy Roscoe appeared on Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks in May 2013, but she left in July 2014 and moved to Joe Roscoe in January 2015.
Despite her EastEnders character being presumed dead after being killed off-screen in 2006, Taylforth's return to the show in February 2015 as part of the 30th anniversary series was a shock.
Kathy's role was reprised by the BBC later this year, and she appeared on television more often from August 2015.
Personal life
Kim Taylforth, a teen actress, is the niece of actress Kim Taylforth. She dated her fellow castmate Nick Berry, who played Simon Wicks, during her time in EastEnders. In the late 1980s, she began a friendship with Geoff Knights. The couple lived in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, and later in Arrington, Cambridgeshire. In 1992, she gave birth to their first child. She suffered a miscarriage in 1996 and doctors informed her a year later that the baby she was carrying had serious anomalies and she was advised to avoid pregnancy." For the second time, she became a mother in 1999.
Knights and Taylforth also had a long tradition of tabloid journalism. Taylforth was involved in a high-profile court case when she sued The Sun newspaper for libel after they ran a story claiming that she and the Knights had carried out sexual assaults on a slip road in their Range Rover in January 1994. Taylforth said that her partner had a serious pancreatitis outbreak and she was simply massaging his stomach to ease his abdominal pain; however, a police officer reported that she was actually performing fellatio. During a court hearing, George Carman QC, The Sun's defence counsel, introduced a 35-minute home video of Taylforth "suggestively posing with a large sausage [...] graphically simulating masturbation with a wine bottle" and boasting to the camera, "I give a good head." The occurrence gave rise to the sarcastic term "Taylforth Sausage."
The jury delivered a 10-2 majority verdict in favour of The Sun, following which Taylforth collapsed and was taken away by an ambulance.
Kathy and Me, Taylforth's first autobiography, chronicles her childhood, her teenage years, her first forays into acting, and her lifestyle.
Early life and career
Taylforth attended William Tyndale Junior School, Barnsbury Secondary School for Girls, Kingsway College of Further Education, and the Anna Scher Theatre School in London. She began her acting career in the 1970s and spent time as a secretary in a variety of small capacities before gaining her big break. Included roles in BBC comedy Hi-Deay!, Shelley, Play for Today, On Safari, Minder, Sink or Swim, and The Rag Trade are among the early television appearances. In the 1980 gangster film The Long Good Friday, Sherry played Sherry.