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Profile of Ruth Madoc
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Ruth Madoc |
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16th April 1943 |
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Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK |
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Actress |
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Ruth Madoc (born 16 April 1943 in Norwich, Norfolk, England, brought up in Llansamlet in south Wales) is a British actress. She is probably most famous for her role as Gladys Pugh in the 1980s BBC television comedy Hi-De-Hi!, although appearances as Daffyd Thomas's mother in the second series of Little Britain have helped to maintain her profile much more recently.
Her parents travelled around Britain for much of her childhood, so she was brought up by her grandmother in Llansamlet near Swansea. She attended RADA and then worked in The Black and White Minstrel Show. She played Fruma Sarah in the film Fiddler on the Roof and Mrs Dai Bread Two in the film Under Milk Wood.
She is an experienced theatre actress who has appeared in many productions including the stage version of Under Milk Wood, Steel Magnolias, Agatha Christie thrillers (And Then There Were None...), the musical Annie and many pantomime parts.
In contrast with her stage career, many of her most high-profile television parts have been Welsh characters: in addition to Little Britain and Hi De Hi, she has also appeared in the Swansea-set Mine, All Mine. In 2002, she and her husband bought a home in Glynneath. In 2004 she appeared in the reality television programme Cariad@Iaith on S4C in which celebrities went on an intensive Welsh language course.
She has also appeared in the LivingTV reality show, I'm Famous and Frightened! which she eventually went on to win.
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