Jo Kendall

Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

She played Desdemona in a production of Othello at the Aide-de-Camp Theatre, Cambridge in 1962. In August 1963 she appeared in the West End in London, New Zealand and Broadway, in the Cambridge University revue Cambridge Circus directed by Humphrey Barclay, alongside Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, David Hatch and Chris Stuart-Clark. In 1978 she appeared in the comedy drama The Unvarnished Truth at London"s Phoenix Theatre with Royce Ryton, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden. Kendall has also appeared in "straight" drama. She appeared as Adelaide Palliser in The Pallisers (1974), as the matron, Mission Biggs, in the film version of Scum (1979), as Annie in the film adaptation of Howards End (1992), directed by James Ivory, and as a publican"s wife in another Merchant Ivory film The Remains of the Day in 1993. Among her television roles, she played Mistress Bardell in The Pickwick Papers (1985), Anne Stanhope in The Six Wives of Henry VIII and had a semi-regular part in Grange Hill in the 1980s as the mother of regular character Roland Browning. In addition, she played the abrasive Mission Elizabeth Wait in the British Broadcasting Corporation"s adaptation of the Vivien Alcock book The Cuckoo Sister (1986). She also played Peggy Skilbeck in the Independent Television series Emmerdale Farm and delivered the first ever line of the show. She lives in Suffolk, in the East of England.

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University of Cambridge.

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She played Desdemona in a production of Othello at the Aide-de-Camp Theatre, Cambridge in 1962. In August 1963 she appeared in the West End in London, New Zealand and Broadway, in the Cambridge University revue Cambridge Circus directed by Humphrey Barclay, alongside Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, David Hatch and Chris Stuart-Clark. In 1978 she appeared in the comedy drama The Unvarnished Truth at London"s Phoenix Theatre with Royce Ryton, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden.

Kendall has also appeared in "straight" drama.

She appeared as Adelaide Palliser in The Pallisers (1974), as the matron, Mission Biggs, in the film version of Scum (1979), as Annie in the film adaptation of Howards End (1992), directed by James Ivory, and as a publican"s wife in another Merchant Ivory film The Remains of the Day in 1993. Among her television roles, she played Mistress

Bardell in The Pickwick Papers (1985), Anne Stanhope in The Six Wives of Henry VIII and had a semi-regular part in Grange Hill in the 1980s as the mother of regular character Roland Browning. In addition, she played the abrasive Mission Elizabeth Wait in the British Broadcasting Corporation"s adaptation of the Vivien Alcock book The Cuckoo Sister (1986).

She also played Peggy Skilbeck in the Independent Television series Emmerdale Farm and delivered the first ever line of the show.

She lives in Suffolk, in the East of England.

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Moving to radio comedy she was a regular performer in the British Broadcasting Corporation"s I"m Sorry, I"ll Read That Again (with John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden and David Hatch), and a member of the panel in the very first edition of I"m Sorry I Haven"t A Clue. Kendall was also a regular team member of the popular radio comedy series The Burkiss Way and played Lady Cynthia Fitzmelton in the opening episode of The Hitchhiker"s Guide to the Galaxy.

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