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Subject: Actress Barbara Ferris 1939-2025 Author: jlp [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 06/ 3/25 8:07:21am / R.I.P: It was said that actress Barbara Ferris, who died aged 85 on May 23, 2025, was the only one of Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Royal Stratford East actresses who started out working-class and ended up middle-class. • Barbara, the daughter of a milkman, was born in London on July 27, 1939, just a few weeks before the outbreak of World War II. After studying at the Italia Conti stage school she started out modelling and dancing. She appeared in “The Pajama Game”, Bob Fosse’s first show as a choreographer at the London Coliseum in 1954-55. She made her Theatre Royal Stratford East debut in 1960 in “Sparrers Can’t Sing”. • She soon added television roles to her resume, appearing in the iconic soap opera “Coronation Street” for 10 episodes as cockney barmaid Nona Willis. In 1966 she starred opposite Donald Sinden in the long-running London West End hit “There’s a Girl in My Soup” – her role in the subsequent film was taken by Goldie Hawn. • A year earlier she joined Ian Hendry and “Children of the Damned”, in which a group of children brought to London by UNESCO turned out to be humans advanced by a million years. Next came John Boorman’s first feature film, “Catch Us If You Can” (1965) with the Dave Clark Five. In 1968 she appeared in “Interlude” playing an arts reporter involved in a disruptive affair with a married maestro played by Oskar Werner. • Barbara wasn’t afraid of tackling controversial roles and in 1965 appeared in Edward Bond’s “Saved” which was produced at the Royal Court theatre under club conditions as the Lord Chamberlain had censored it. She played the unaffectionate mother whose baby is stoned to death. • Further theatrical roles included parts in the Jacoben comedy “A Chaste Maid in Cheapside” (1966); David Hare’s first major success, “Slag” (1971); and Mrs. Elvsted in John Osborne’s adaption of “Hedda Gabler”. Her last major West End appearance was as a dance teacher in “Stepping Out” in 1984. • Barbara, who was a keen golfer, married film director and producer John Quested in 1960. She is survived by her husband and their three children, Nicholas, Christopher and Catherine. • •https://www.instagram.com/p/DKbUVsrMHT2/ [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date CONFIRMED: Barbara Ferris: Coronation Street actor dies, aged 85 StanZbornak 06/ 3/25 10:20:30am