Lynda Bellingham played many roles during her five-decade professional career, but became synonymous with one. "Being a mum making gravy was not quite how I had seen my career advancing," she said once. But between 1983 and 1999 that's what she did in 42 "episodes" of an award-winning TV ad. Since the early 1980s, her name was rarely mentioned in print without it being prefaced with "Oxo mum".
During her career, though, she starred on TV as the ...
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Sweeney!
As Janice Wyatt
The Romanovs: A Crowned Family
As Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna
Devil's Gate
As Marlene
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
As Valerie
An Audience with Ronnie Corbett
Riding High
As Miss Mott
Don't Go Breaking My Heart
As Maxine
Bodywork
As Poppy Fields
The Vision
As Mary Morris
The Scarlet Tunic
As Emily Marlowe
Confessions of a Driving Instructor
As Mary Truscott
Doctor Who: The Mysterious Planet
As The Inquisitor
Doctor Who: Mindwarp
As The Inquisitor
Doctor Who: Terror of the Vervoids
As The Inquisitor
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Foe
As The Inquisitor
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
The Waterloo Bridge Handicap
Too Close for Comfort
As Mum
The Long Bank Holiday
As Councillor Marjorie Balsam
The Sweeney
As Nancy King
Midsomer Murders
As Jane Willows
This Morning
As Self
Second Thoughts
As Faith
The One Show
As Self
Blake's 7
As Vena
The Gentle Touch
Z-Cars
Shoestring
The Professionals
As Betty Hope
Surprise, Surprise
As Self
Mister Eleven
As Shirley
Dalziel & Pascoe
Waking the Dead
As Mary Mantel
Robin Hood
All Creatures Great and Small
As Helen Herriot
Hazell
Faith in the Future
Angels
New Tricks
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
As Self
The Last Detective
One Life
Within These Walls
Tell Tarby
Bonkers
Junior Masterchef
Gibberish
All Star Mr & Mrs
The Pink Medicine Show
Odd One In
My Uncle Silas
As Mrs. Gadsby
Yus, My Dear
As Carol
An Audience with...
As Self
At Home with the Braithwaites
As Pauline Farnell
Casualty
As Steph Yates
Wogan
As Self
Martin Chuzzlewit
As Mrs. Lupin
Doctor Who
As The Inquisitor
Loose Women
As Self
Filthy Rich & Catflap
As Ms Tomkins
Screen Two
As Mary Morris
The Misfit
As Wee Jeannie