Su Pollard

Susan Georgina "Su" Pollard (born 7 November 1949) is a British actress, singer, songwriter and author whose career has spanned over 50 years.

As a singer, she scored a UK Singles Chart number two hit with the song "Starting Together" in 1986, and also released an album, Su.

After leaving school at the age of 16, she got a job at the Tennant Rubber Company in Carlton as a shorthand typist and began singing in working men's clubs and charity shows.

She went on to direct the musicals The Desert Song and Rose-Marie with John Hanson, starred in the Cameron Mackintosh West End production of Godspell, played opposite Jack Wild in Big Sin City at the Roundhouse, toured in the musical Grease in a company that also included Tracey Ullman, appeared with Tim Brooke-Taylor and Hugh Paddick in the farce Not Now, Darling, won a role in Andrew Sachs's play Philately Will Get You Nowhere and appeared at the Mermaid Theatre in a celebration of the music of Cole Porter, titled Oh Mr. Porter!

She also appeared as the hostess in the 1980 documentary short The Great British Striptease, which was compered by Bernard Manning in Blackpool.

Pollard's first comedy role was in a BBC series screened in 1979 entitled Two Up, Two Down, in which she played a hippy named Flo.

Paul Nicholas played her partner, Jimmy, both of whom were squatting in the house of a nice middle-class couple.

It only lasted for one series, but then later that year came the pilot programme for a new BBC comedy written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft set in a holiday camp.

- The Holiday Musical, along with almost all of the cast from the television series, played sell out seasons in Bournemouth, London and Blackpool.

From 1993 until 1996, Pollard starred opposite Gorden Kaye in For Better or for Worse, a BBC Radio 2 sitcom about an engaged-to-be-married couple.

In December 2010, Pollard had a guest role in the Christmas special of ITV's hit show Benidorm, playing herself.

In pantomime, Pollard appeared regularly as the Wicked Queen in Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs, in 2014 in Sunderland,[8] 2015 in Blackpool,[9] Tunbridge Wells in 2016,[10] Aylesbury in 2017[11] and in Malvern in 2018.