Linda Lusardi
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Born | Linda Frances Ethel Lusardi 18 September 1958 Wood Green, London |
Occupation | Actress |
Linda Frances Ethel Lusardi (born 18 September 1958 in Wood Green, London[1]) is an English actress, television presenter and former glamour and nude model.
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Career
Modelling
Born in Wood Green, London from a father of Italian heritage, Lusardi grew up in Palmers Green. In 1976, she began her modelling career in The Sun at the age of 18 and was voted the Best Page 3 Girl Of All Time in 2005.[2] In 1977 she posed fully nude for the British pornographic magazines Fiesta and Mayfair using the name Suzanne. The photographs can be found at venus observations.
TV Acting
As an actress, Lusardi has appeared in the drama series The Bill playing the girlfriend of corrupt officer DS Don Beech and also in Hollyoaks and Brookside. On 12 February 2007, she joined the cast of Emmerdale as Carrie Nicholls, an ex-girlfriend of Tom King and mother of his secret child, Scarlett. She left the programme after a year.[3][4]
Film
Lusardi has appeared in movies including Snappers,[5] The Zero Imperative, Oh Minnie and Consuming Passions.
Stage
Lusardi has starred as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion at the Malvern Festival and toured in Happy as A Sandbag, Funny Peculiar, Bedside Manners, Not Now Darling, Rock with Laughter, No Sex Please We're British Doctor on The Boil. Lusardi took her own show the British Forces in Belize, the Falklands and Northern Ireland
She is a supporter of UK pantomime and often stars with her husband Sam Kane each Christmas at major theatres in the UK. Recent venues have been Woking, Southend, Plymouth, and Llandudno.[6] Lusardi has starred in over 25 pantomimes
Other television work
Lusardi appeared in two series of A Kind of Magic, as assistant to Wayne Dobson on ITV, and a season of Loose Women in 2002. She later returned in 2014 to present and made a few guest panellist appearances. She regularly presented Wish You Were Here...?, Miss Northern Ireland, chat show It's Bizarre, Film Review[disambiguation needed] and No Smoking[disambiguation needed] on ITV. Lusardi took part in the reality show The Games in 2004, ITV daytime programme Have I Been Here Before? and BBC One's Hole in the Wall in 2009. She also sells Lusardi My Miracle, a range of skin-care products,[7] on shopping television channel Ideal World. In 1992, she appeared in the "Dead Ringer" observation round of The Krypton Factor and appeared in a special edition of Bullseye presented by Jim Bowen. Lusardi appeared on Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway on ITV and in The Royal Variety Performance, as well as Celebrity Eggheads and Pointless Celebrities on the BBC
Reality TV
In January 2008, Lusardi joined ITV's Dancing On Ice, finishing in sixth place. Her professional skating partner was Daniel Whiston, who temporarily moved into her family home to make training more convenient. Lusardi had to catch up with her fellow skaters after falling and breaking a bone in her foot during her first hour on the ice.[8] She also won the Channel 4 show Celebrity Come Dine With Me in 2008. In the show, she was voted the best dinner host by her fellow contestants Abi Titmuss, Rodney Marsh, Lesley Joseph and Paul Ross. Lusardi participated in the 2011 series of Celebrity Masterchef, where she reached the final five.
Personal life
During the 1980s, Lusardi married a builder named Terry Bailey and they were often featured in the News of the World's Sunday supplement magazine, "Sunday". They divorced in 1996. In 1998, Lusardi married actor Samuel Kane and they have two children, son Jack and daughter Lucy. She is patron of two charities, The Willow Foundation and The Rhys Daniels Trust.[9][10][11]
References
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External links
- Linda Lusardi at the Internet Movie Database
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- Linda Lusardi's Official Website
- Linda Lusardi's Official Blog
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- 1958 births
- Living people
- Dancing on Ice participants
- English female adult models
- English television actresses
- English television personalities
- People from Palmers Green
- English people of Italian descent