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Cherie Lunghi

 
Actor: Cherie Lunghi
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  • Born: 1953 in England
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '80s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Drama
  • Career Highlights: Excalibur, Letters to an Unknown Lover, Much Ado About Nothing
  • First Major Screen Credit: Prince Regent (1979)

Biography

British leading lady Cherie Lunghi got her movie career off to a splendid start with a plum "legendary" role. In 1981's Excalibur, Lunghi was awarded with several ethereal close-ups by virtue of her portrayal of Lady Guenevere. Four years later, she was cast as Michal, first wife of the title character (played by Richard Gere) in King David (1985). Other period assignments in Cherie Lunghi's repertoire include the Sherlock Holmes escapade The Sign of Four (1983) and the World War II-era romantic drama Letters to an Unknown Lover (1985). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Cherie Lunghi
Born 4 April 1952 (1952-04-04) (age 57)
Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
Occupation Actress
Years active 1965-present

Cherie Lunghi (born 4 April 1952) is a British film, television and theatre actress. She is probably best known for her role as Guinevere in the 1981 film Excalibur, as football manageress Gabriella Benson in the 1990s television series The Manageress and for starring in a series of adverts for Kenco coffee.[1] She also competed in the 2008 series of Strictly Come Dancing.[2] She is the mother of the actress Nathalie Lunghi.

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Life and career

Lunghi was born in Nottingham.[3] Her father, Alessandro Lunghi, was Italian[4] and her mother was English.[5][6] After her father returned to Italy, she was brought up in west London by her mother and her aunts.[7]

Educated at the Arts Educational School in Hyde Park,[disambiguation needed][8] Lunghi played Hedvig in The Wild Duck and Alice in Alice in Wonderland on BBC radio while still at school. After graduating from Homerton College, Cambridge and London's Central School of Speech and Drama, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in the late 1970s, taking leading roles such as Perdita, Cordelia and Viola.[8]

Lunghi left the RSC to pursue a career in film, with probably her best known role as Guinevere in the 1981 film Excalibur. After the birth of her daughter Nathalie and the breakdown of her relationship with Nathalie's father,[7] she took various short term parts, including playing the band members' mutual love interest in the music video for Level 42's song "Something About You." In the mid-1980s she relocated to Los Angeles for eight years, but returned to support her mother, and took on the lead role in football drama The Manageress. As a result, 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 from the late 1990s onwards.[7]

In 2006, Lunghi appeared on television in Casualty 1906, as Matron Eva Luckes, and had a recurring guest role in the regular Casualty series as Professor Camille Windsor, the mother of junior doctor Toby Da Silva.

Strictly Come Dancing

In 2008 Lunghi competed in the sixth series of BBC television's Strictly Come Dancing(14 week run), partnered by James Jordan.[9] After her first dance, the Foxtrot on the Ladies Night in Week 2, she scored the highest points of the first two weeks (33). She beat this score with another series best score of 35/40 for the Rumba to finish week 4 top of the remaining 12 contestants with an average score of 34/40. The score for her third dance, the American Smooth was an impressive 34 to maintain her average, though she slipped to 31/40 for the Paso Doble, and further to 26/40 on her fifth outing, in the Salsa. She returned to form the following week with a Waltz, scoring 36/40 and was joint first on the leaderboard. She was voted off the competition on 16 November 2008,(Week 9) losing by 3 votes to 1 in the dance-off against model Lisa Snowdon after performing a Cha Cha Cha.[10] In the January/February 2009 Strictly Tour Cherie danced an American Smooth and a Rumba with James Jordan.

Personal life

Lunghi was briefly married to South African student Ralph Lawson after the pair met while studying at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama.[4] The 1975 marriage was one of convenience, conducted so that Lawson could remain in the UK.[11]

She is the mother of Nathalie Lunghi from her relationship with the director Roland Joffé.[4]

Filmography

Television

References

  1. ^ Hardy, Rebecca (5 June 2009). "Cherie Lunghi: Why can't I find a man?". Mail Online. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1190344/Cherie-Lunghi-Why-I-man.html. Retrieved 9 June 2009. 
  2. ^ Midgley, Neil (18 September 2008). "Cherie Lunghi: Strictly Come Dancing". Daily Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3560918/Cherie-Lunghi-Strictly-Come-Dancing.html. Retrieved 9 June 2009. 
  3. ^ General Registry
  4. ^ a b c "Cherie Lunghi: I have 'seduced' so many men". Daily Express. 14 October, 2008. http://express.co.uk/posts/view/66086/Cherie-Lunghi-I-have-seduced-so-many-men-. Retrieved 2008-11-19. 
  5. ^ "A faded alcoholic beauty". Mail Online. 5 June 2003. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=183616&in_page_id=1773. Retrieved 2008-09-17. 
  6. ^ "'I'm content with myself'". Mail Online. 18 March 2004. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-299997/Im-content-myself.html. Retrieved 2008-09-07. 
  7. ^ a b c "Cherie Lunghi: Strictly single - and loving it!". Mail Online. 10 October 2008. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1076053/Cherie-Lunghi-Strictly-single--loving-it.html. Retrieved 2008-11-19. 
  8. ^ a b Butler, Robert (14 November 1993). "Show People: Scoring a different goal: Cherie Lunghi". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/show-people-scoring-a-different-goal-cherie-lunghi-1504309.html. Retrieved 9 June 2009. 
  9. ^ "Strictly Come Dancing stars unveiled". Mirror.co.uk. 28 August 2008. http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/2008/08/28/strictly-come-dancing-stars-unveiled-including-jodie-kidd-rachel-stevens-jessie-wallace-and-lisa-snowdon-115875-20714972/. Retrieved 2008-09-09. 
  10. ^ "Cherie No More!". Daily Express. 17 November 2008. http://express.co.uk/posts/view/71526/Cherie-no-more-. Retrieved 2008-11-19. 
  11. ^ "Strictly Come Dancing's Cherie Lunghi had sham marriage". Mirror.co.uk. 11 October 2008. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/10/11/strictly-come-dancing-s-cherie-lunghi-had-sham-marriage-115875-20794916/. Retrieved 2008-11-19. 

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