Linda Robson
This year Linda is celebrating her 39th year in showbusiness, having started at a very early age! Linda was a founder member of the renowned Anna Scher theatre school in Islington when she first began making television appearances on Jackanory, The Likely Lads, Within These Walls, Softly Softly, Anoop and the Elephant, Junket89, The Tomorrow People, Pauline's Quirke’s The Battle of Billy's Pond, Play for the Day, Dick Turpin, Thomas and Sarah, The Survivors, the 80's saw her as Chris Adams in The Gentle Touch, Bessie in Cribb, playing Gerry in the TV series Going Out. Linda went on to play Theresa McCorrigan in the awarding winning series Harry's Game and Jenny in L for Lester. The popular Shine On Harvey Moon saw Linda in the role of Maggie Moon opposite Nigel Planer, The Agatha Christie Hour, Agony, A Pattern of Roses, episodes of The Bill and then there was Birds of a Feather which saw her reunited with her school pal Pauline Quirke which became the highest rated comedy series on BBC television running for 10 years and making Linda a household name.
Linda co-presented with Pauline Quirke in the hugely successful Jobs for the Girls which challenged Linda to tackle some of the most unlikely of jobs including taught by Lesley Garrett to be an opera singer and sing Rule Britannia at Kenwood festival with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Other jobs saw her becoming a photographer with a national newspaper standing outside Number 10 with the pack, showing a prize winning dog at Crufts and organising a charity party for Sarah Ferguson the Duchess of York.
Linda has presented many TV programmes including BBC's Inside OUT, Loose Talk, The London Programme, Feather Your Nest, Renovation Street. She has also appeared in A Home of their Own, The Green Programme, Come Dine with Me, and Posh Swop
Linda also enjoys her stage work and toured Australia in Kay Mellor's Passionate Woman. Here in the UK she has appeared in The Vagina Monologues and also at The Royal Court In Food Chain. Last year saw her tour and make her West End debut at the New Ambassadors Theatre in the part of Joe Meek's Landlady, Violet Shenton in Telstar with Con O'Neill. Earlier again this year Linda was back on stage touring in Grumpy Old Women. before she transferred with it to the Lyric theatre in Shaftsbury Avenue. later this spring she will do a short tour with grumpy old women in Australia Linda has been co-presenting the early morning radio show on BBC Radio London in January 2007
Linda is a very active Charity worker and is a trustee of Children with Leukaemia Linda also supports The Children's Society and has completed many charity walks for them including those in New York, New Zealand and the rainforests of Brazil. In between all this body of work Linda has raised her three children Lauren 23, her son Louis 14 and 10 year old daughter Bobbie . She and her husband Mark continue to live in Islington where Linda was born.
