Shakespeare’s play from start to Benedick’s exit. Cherie Lunghi is such a fine Beatrice!. If only we could have the cast of this TV broadcast with the sumptuous production and costumes of the Kenneth Branagh film version… Lee Montague … Leonato Tim Faulkner … Messenger Cherie Lunghi … Beatrice Katharine Levy … Hero Jon Finch … Don Pedro Robert Lindsay … Benedick Robert Reynolds … Claudio cut and pasted from various websites: Cherie Lunghi was born April 4, 1952 in London. She is the mother of Nathalie Lunghi (full name Nathalie Kathleen Lunghi-Joffé, born 26 August 1986). Her father (Alessandro Lunghi) was Italian, who abandoned the family, and her English mother and aunts raised the kids in west London. Leading ingénue at the Royal Shakespeare Company in the late 70s (Perdita, Cordelia, Viola), then left to portray Guinevere in Excalibur (1981) and pursue a film career. In 1995 she was placed 92nd in the “100 Sexiest Women in the World” by the publishers of FHM magazine. In addition to her varied film and television work, she is perhaps best known for appearing in a long-running advertising campaign on British television for Kenco coffee in the 1990s. Went to America in 1995, and came back in 1999. Presenter of Green Apple Environment Awards at the Café Royal, London 1 August 2000 Appeared at the King Arthur Exhibition Edinburgh, November 2001. Now married to Simon Woodroffe founder of the Yo! Sushi food chain …….. questions from the audience on BBC …
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