Linda Robson

She is best known for playing Tracey Stubbs in the sitcom Birds of a Feather (1989–1998, 2014–2020) and her appearances as a weekly panellist on the ITV series Loose Women (2012–2018, 2020–present).

As a founder student of Anna Scher's Theatre School, Robson had a significant number of appearances on screen as a child actor.

In 2020 Robson took an extended hiatus from Loose Women after suffering with a serious bout of "OCD", she returned to the show as a guest in 2020 then a full-time panellist the following week.

Linda Patricia Mary Robson was born on 13 March 1958 in Islington, London to an English father and an Irish mother.

[5] Robson had a minor role as Barbara, a young girl amidst a group of roaming teenagers, in the second series of the original BBC Survivors drama aired in 1976.

Robson played Tracey Stubbs in the BBC sitcom Birds of a Feather from 1989 to 1998, starring with Pauline Quirke and Lesley Joseph.

In July 2010, Robson made a guest appearance in BBC drama series Casualty, playing the mother of a young man with bipolar disorder.

Robson made her debut as a guest panellist on Loose Women on 19 August 2003, appearing alongside Kaye Adams, Carol McGiffin & Terri Dwyer.

[11] In November 2014, Robson was a part of Gareth Malone's 'All Star Choir',[12] who released a cover version of Wake Me Up to raise money for the BBC's Children in Need.

In 2022, Robson appeared on the seventh series of Celebrity Coach Trip alongside her Birds of a Feather co-star Lesley Joseph.

In October 2013, Robson voiced an interactive video campaign for the British Lung Foundation aiming to ban smoking in cars with children on board in the United Kingdom, in memory of her father.