Occupation Actor | Name Judy Bennett | |
Known for The ArchersThe PerishersDennis and Gnasher, Education | ||
Judy Bennett (born 1943) is a Liverpudlian voice actor whose career in radio began with the long-running soap opera The Archers, in which she has played the role of Shula Hebden Lloyd since 1971. She played Shula's twin brother Kenton and younger sister Elizabeth before assuming the role of Shula herself.
She has voiced characters in a number of cartoon series, including The Perishers (1979) and Dennis the Menace and Gnasher in the late 1990s.
She attended Notre Dame Mount Pleasant High School (a girls' catholic grammar school, now St Julie's Catholic High School) in Liverpool.
Bennett studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 1976 she married Canadian-English actor Charles Collingwood, who plays Archers character Brian Aldridge. Actress Jane Collingwood (b. 1979) is their daughter.
