Isabelle Lucas

Isabelle Harriet Lucas (3 December 1927 – 24 February 1997)[1] was a Canadian-born British actress and singer.

Isabelle Lucas was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to a chef from Barbados who worked on the Canadian Pacific Railway.

She appeared in film and television roles during the 1950s and 1960s, including Miracle in Soho (1957).

[1] Lucas's first major television role was in The Fosters (broadcast on ITV between 9 April 1976 and 9 July 1977), the first British sitcom to have an all-Black cast, in which she played the part of Pearl Foster, wife of Norman Beaton's lead character.

At the end of the 1980s she joined the long-running BBC Schools' show You and Me, and remained with it as a presenter until it finished in 1992.