Liza Goddard

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Liza Goddard
Born
Louise Elizabeth Goddard

(1950-01-20) 20 January 1950 (age 74)
Smethwick, Staffordshire [1] England
OccupationActress
Years active1966–present
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    (m. 1995;died 2018)​
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Louise Elizabeth Goddard (born 20 January 1950), professionally known as Liza Goddard, is an English television and stage actress, best known for her work in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Early life

Goddard was born in Smethwick, Staffordshire. [1] She is the daughter of David Goddard (1925–1992), who produced and directed numerous TV shows and programmes. She attended Farnham Girls' Grammar School, before her father moved the family to Australia, when she was 15, upon his appointment as Head of Drama at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Career

Goddard made early television appearances in Australia, including episode 100 of Homicide ("The Traveller", 1966), and the ABC drama play Romanoff & Juliet (1967), and a brief (non-speaking, uncredited) appearance in the feature film They're A Weird Mob (1966). However, she is best remembered in Australia for her role as Clarissa "Clancy" Merrick in Skippy the Bush Kangaroo , in which she appeared in the first two series and 48 episodes. [2] [3] [4]

After returning to the UK in 1969 as an adult, she was cast as Victoria Edgecombe, the character created by Terence Brady and Charlotte Bingham in Take Three Girls (1969), [3] later appearing in its sequel Take Three Women (1982). She also had a supporting role in the 1972 comedy film Ooh… You Are Awful , starring Dick Emery. Her career breakthrough was as April in The Brothers (1972–76), which also featured her first husband, Colin Baker. She also appeared as Jocelyn in "National Pelmet", the Series 2 opener of the ITV drama Minder .

A comedy role alongside Donal Donnelly in Yes, Honestly (1976–77), by Terence Brady and Charlotte Bingham followed, as did a role with Christopher Biggins in a BBC1 sitcom Watch This Space (1980), by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe. This was followed by Pig in the Middle (1980–83) also written by Terence Brady and Charlotte Bingham.

Goddard was one of the 'explorers' who were 'evaporated' in a (now missing) episode of the BBC science fiction quiz programme The Adventure Game (1980), played a space pirate in the Doctor Who story Terminus (1983), and appeared in Roll Over Beethoven (1985), opposite Nigel Planer. She played Barbara Colport in the Tales of the Unexpected (TV series) episode (9/6) "Wink Three Times" (1988). She also played a humanist in the 1988 biographical film Testimony , starring Ben Kingsley. She then appeared in Woof! , a Children's ITV programme first broadcast in 1989. Her third husband, producer and director David Cobham, created this series. She had earlier appeared in the TV adaptation of Brendon Chase , also produced and directed by Cobham.

For many years, she was also the female team leader on the long-running quiz/panel show Give Us A Clue , replacing Una Stubbs in the role.[ citation needed ]

She was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1984 when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the Ambassador's Theatre in London for the shows recording nearby, at the Regent Theatre. [5] [6]

Goddard appeared as Laurel Manasotti in the ITV sitcom That's Love .[ citation needed ]

She later had a recurring role as Philippa Vale in Bergerac (featuring in four series between 1984 and 1989) and alongside Dawn French and Catherine Tate in Wild West (2002). In 2007 she appeared in the Midsomer Murders episode "A Picture of Innocence", reuniting her with Bergerac star John Nettles. In 2012 she had a cameo role in the all-star comedy film Run for Your Wife , and in 2013 she toured with the official Agatha Christie Theatre Company in Go Back for Murder , an adaptation of the book Five Little Pigs .

In September 2016, Goddard played the guest role of Gloria Francis in the BBC1 drama series Casualty . [7] In March 2023 she again appeared in Casualty, this time playing Christine Robinson in the series 37 episode "No Regrets". In July 2023 Goddard was announced as taking the role of Dotty Otley in a national tour of Michael Frayn's farce Noises Off , directed by Lindsay Posner, following its run at the Phoenix Theatre, London. [8]

Personal life

Goddard's first marriage was to Dr Who actor Colin Baker. [9]

In 1981 she married Bernard William Jewry, the pop star Alvin Stardust. [10] Goddard's daughter from her marriage with Jewry, Sophie Jewry, was critically injured at the age of two months after she fell down a set of stairs and suffered a severe fracture of the skull. She later recovered from her injuries. [10]

Goddard's third marriage was to producer and director David Cobham. [9]

In 2004, Goddard was locked in a giant kennel along with MPs Paul Burstow, Evan Harris and Ivan Henderson and BBC Newsround presenter Lizzie Greenwood, TV presenter Liz Bonnin and DJ Becky Jago in a stunt to launch the annual RSPCA Week to raise awareness and funds. [11]

As of 2021, she lives near Dereham, [12] Norfolk and also works with the RSPCA, amongst other charities. She recovered from breast cancer in 1997. [13] She has two children. [9]

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  1. 1 2 Before 1 April 1974 Smethwick was in Staffordshire
  2. ↑ Newcomb, Horace (2004). Encyclopedia of television. CRC Press. p. 2108. ISBN   1-57958-411-X.
  3. 1 2 Falk, Quentin; Falk, Ben (2005). Television's Strangest Moments: Extraordinary But True Tales from the History of Television. Franz Steiner Verlag. p. 78. ISBN   1-86105-874-8.
  4. ↑ "Liza Goddard - Filmography by TV series". IMDb.com. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  5. ↑ Liza Goddard recalls This Is Your Life , retrieved 2 November 2023
  6. ↑ "Regent Theatre, London | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
  7. ↑ "BBC One - Casualty, Series 37, No Regrets". BBC . Retrieved 28 September 2023.
  8. ↑ "Noises Off UK Tour announces full casting starring Liza Goddard, Matthew Kelly and Simon Shepherd". Theatre Weekly. 27 July 2023. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
  9. 1 2 3 Goddard, Liza (12 May 2011). The Autobiography of Liza Goddard: Working with Children and Animals. Andrews UK Limited. ISBN   978-1-908382-03-0.
  10. 1 2 "Singer's baby recovers after fall down stairs". The Herald. Glasgow. 22 December 1981. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
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