Judy Bennett Explained

Judy Bennett
Birth Date:22 October 1943
Birth Place:Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Alma Mater:Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Occupation:Actress
Known For:The Archers
Spouse:Charles Collingwood
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Judy Bennett (born 1943) is a British voice actress whose career in radio began with the long-running soap opera The Archers, in which she played the role of Shula Hebden-Lloyd from 1971 to 2022, reappearing in 2023 after a break.[2] [3] She played Shula's twin brother Kenton and younger sister Elizabeth before assuming the role of Shula herself.

She has voiced characters in a number of cartoon series, including The Perishers (1979) and Dennis the Menace and Gnasher in the late 1990s.[4]

She attended Notre Dame Mount Pleasant High School (a girls' catholic grammar school, now St Julie's Catholic High School) in Liverpool.

Bennett studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.[2] In 1976 she married Canadian-English actor Charles Collingwood, who plays Archers character Brian Aldridge. Actress Jane Collingwood (born 1979) is their daughter.

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  1. Web site: David Troughton is the new Tony Archer. Davies . Keri . 2 January 2014 . BBC Archers . 21 February 2021.
  2. News: How We Met: Charles Collingwood and Judy Bennett . . https://web.archive.org/web/20150323211845/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/how-we-met-1322900.html . 23 March 2015 . . 7 January 1996 . dead . 6 January 2013.
  3. Web site: BBC Radio 4 - The Archers - Half a century as Shula: Judy Bennett looks back at her time in The Archers . 2023-03-07 . BBC . en-GB.
  4. Web site: The Voices of Judy Bennett . Behind the Voice Actors . 3 May 2016.