Polly James

Polly James, born as Pauline Devaney, is an English actress with a career in theatre, film, television and radio.Born in Blackburn, Lancashire, after graduating from RADA, Jamess TV career began in BBC2s Thirty-Minute Theatre, followed by the role of a drug addict in Z-Cars in 1967. She played Audrey Hargreaves in Coronation Street in 1967.She is best known for her role as Beryl Hennessey in the first four series of the British sitcom The Liver Birds (1969–74), with Nerys Hughes (from the second series onwards). The series had started in April 1969 as an episode of Comedy Playhouse, the BBCs breeding ground for sitcoms. She played Cicely Courtneidge in the biographical musical of the actress Once More with Music in 1976, appeared as a soubrette in Alan Clarkes 1982 production of Baal, and in Doctor Who in 1984. She appeared, too, in the West End musicals, I and Albert and Anne of Green Gables. In 1971, James appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company in The Merchant of Venice with Judi Dench.She is married and has one child, the actor Adam James.

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