Grazyna Monvid is a British actress, author and award-winning playwright. [1]
As an actress Monvid has appeared in various British television dramas including The Liver Birds , Emmerdale Farm , Casualty , Game, Set and Match and Checking In, Checking Out.
In the 1980s, as a TV writer, she penned three series of ATV's schools series Starting Out , which starred Rolf Saxon, Ian Mercer, Joanna Lumley, Katharine Levy, Hywel Williams-Ellis, Amanda Noar and Kevin Lloyd, as well as episodes of Dramarama , [2] A Change in Time, Scene and EastEnders (1991). [3] [4]
As a playwright Monvid's works include The Enemy Within [5] and On Your Bike (1982) performed at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry.
Monvid studied at the University of Sussex. In 1965 she married Michael J. Yates at Northampton in Northamptonshire.
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