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Linda Henry
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Linda Virilis, known professionally by her maiden name, Linda Henry is an English actress, known for her roles as Yvonne Atkins in the Independent Television television drama Bad Girls and Shirley Carter in the British Broadcasting Corporation soap opera EastEnders, a role she has played since 2006.
Career
She had previously appeared in Eastenders as the original Lorraine Salter, the mother of Mandy Salter from 1991 to 1992. Her other television credits include Cracker (1995), Prime Suspect (1997) and Trial & Retribution (1998). She has also appeared in the films Beautiful Thing (1996) and The Business (2005).
Henry was brought up in Peckham, London.
She spent some time with the "Old Vic Youth Theatre", and at seventeen she went to the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Artist Henry later set up a production company, Buster, which still exists although she is no longer involved with lieutenant
As well as her role in Bad Girls she is also remembered for her role as Sandra in the film Beautiful Thing and has appeared in the British television programmes The Bill, Birds of a Feather, Touching Evil, Cracker, A Touch of Frost, Trial & Retribution as Marilyn Spark and EastEnders, where she played Lorraine Salter, the prostitute mother of the teenage tearaway Mandy Salter (Nicola Stapleton). She had a minor role in British film The Business as the character Shirley, which also starred Danny Dyer as the main character.
Shirley arrived in Walford in December 2006.
Henry took part in the 2008 "WestEnders" Children in Need appeal where she sang alongside other EastEnders cast members. She also took part in a 2008 EastEnders edition of The Weakest Link and appears in the 2010 spin-off series EastEnders: E20. In 2009, her co-star in Beautiful Thing, Tameka Empson (she played next-door neighbour Leah Russell to Henry"s Sandra Gangel) would join EastEnders herself, as Kim Fox.
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2003 (aged 40)