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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 2, 1959
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Also Known As
- Gwynneth Strong
Gwyneth Strong
4.9 Popularity
Biography
Gwyneth Strong is an English actress. She is best known for her role in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses as Cassandra, the love interest and, later, wife of Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst). Strong's first acting appearance was in the Royal Court Theatre's production Live Like Pigs, when she was eleven. In 1973, whilst a pupil at Holland Park School, she appeared in the horror film Nothing But the Night as Mary Valley, and she was a regular in the children's TV series The Flockton Flyer between 1977 and 1979, as Jan Carter. As well as her prominent role in the later series of Only Fools and Horses, she has appeared in the "Observation" segment about Detective Samantha Smith made for the 1990 series of The Krypton Factor, the two-part drama serial The Missing Postman as WPC Rachel McMahon, the BBC drama Real Women from 1997 to 1998, as Hetty in ITV's Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married (1999), and in BBC drama Casualty in 2013 as Jim Brodie's wife, Elizabeth. Strong featured in the television film It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow (1975), written by Bernard Kops and directed by John Goldschmidt, depicting the real-life drama of the Bethnal Green tube disaster in the Second World War. She also appeared in the "True Confessions" two-part episode of the series A Touch of Frost, reuniting her on screen with her Only Fools and Horses co-star David Jason. She appeared on the West End stage in 2008, in the musical Our House, in which she played Kath Casey. In May 2010, Strong appeared in an episode of Midsomer Murders. On 16 September 2016, she joined the cast of the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders, in the recurring role of Geraldine Clough. Strong married former Footballers' Wives and Eldorado star Jesse Birdsall on 15 July 2000. They have one son Oscar (born 1988), and one daughter Lottie (born 1991) She now lives in Bexhill, East Sussex.
Known For
7.8
The Story of Only Fools And Horses
2017
7.0
Laura
In Love with Alma Cogan
2011
7.4
New Tricks
2004
7.0
The Story of Only Fools and Horses
2002
8.0
Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show
2000
🎬
0.0
Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
1999
6.5
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
1997
6.7
WPC Rachel McMahon
The Missing Postman
1997
5.0
WPC Rachel McMahon
The Missing Postman
1997
7.5
Katie Soper
Midsomer Murders
1997
Credits
The Story of Only Fools And Horses
2017
7.8
In Love with Alma Cogan
as Laura
2011
7.0
New Tricks
2004
7.4
The Story of Only Fools and Horses
2002
7.0
Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show
2000
8.0
🎬
Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
1999
0.0
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
1997
6.5
The Missing Postman
as WPC Rachel McMahon
1997
6.7
The Missing Postman
as WPC Rachel McMahon
1997
5.0
Midsomer Murders
as Katie Soper
1997
7.5
Crimetime
as Gwenda
1996
3.9
Silent Witness
1996
7.5
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
as Cynthia
1993
5.6
A Touch of Frost
1992
7.5
Nice Town
as Linda Thompson
1992
5.5
Only Fools & Horses - Miami Twice - The Movie
as Cassandra Trotter
1991
0.0
Afraid of the Dark
as Blind Mother with Baby
1991
5.4
Living with Dinosaurs
as Teacher
1990
7.3
Bosses From Hell
1989
0.0
Cry Freedom
as Girl at Funeral
1987
7.0
Casualty
as Elizabeth Brodie
1986
6.1
King of the Ghetto
as Sadie Deedes
1986
0.0
King of the Ghetto
as Sadie Deedes
1986
6.0
Parker
as Andrea
1985
5.3
White City
as Girlfriend
1985
0.0
Rainy Day Women
as Linda
1984
0.0
🎬
Mr. Right
as Gloria
1983
0.0
The Story of Ruth
as Sharon
1982
2.0
The Factory
as Penny Shepherd
1981
0.0
Only Fools and Horses
1981
8.0
Only Fools and Horses
as Cassandra Trotter (née Parry)
1981
8.0
Only Fools and Horses
as Cassandra Parry
1981
8.0
Electric in the City
as Kerwin's Follower
1980
0.0
Ladies
as Anne
1980
0.0
Bloody Kids
as Jan, Ken's Girlfriend
1980
6.4
🎬
Dark Water
as Jo
1980
5.0
Minder
as Juror
1979
6.8
No Mama No
as Girl junkie
1979
0.0
🎬
Age of Hypocrisy
as Madeleine & Tempe Iverson
1977
0.0
Early Struggles
as Carol
1976
0.0
It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow
as Jane Bell
1975
8.0
Shadows
as HoneyAnn
1975
5.7
Shadows
as Elizabeth
1975
5.7
Angels
1975
3.7
Playhouse
as Kerwin's Follower
1974
7.0
Nothing But the Night
as Mary Valley
1973
6.1
Play for Today
1970
6.3
Play for Today
as Anne
1970
6.3
Z-Cars
1962
7.0