Amanda Barrie: Amanda Barrie. Actress: Carry on Cleo. This feisty and very funny British comedienne and musical revue vet with the trademark 60s brunet page-boy haircut, pronounced jaw, and arguably the largest, Bette Davis-like eyes in London was born Shirley Anne Broadbent in Ashton-under-Lyne, Cheshire on September 14, 1935. The daughter of Hubert Howath Broadbent, an accountant, and wife Connie (Pyke) Broadbent, who greatly prodded her young daughter into becoming a performer,...
Known For: Carry on Cleo (Cleopatra), Bad Girls (Beverley Tull), Ooh La La! (ArmandinePepita Lamballe), Coronation Street (Alma BaldwinAlma SedgewickAlma Halliwell)