Lucinda Gane

Lucinda Gane (20 October 1949 – 6 October 2005)[1] was a British actress, known for her role as the absent-minded science teacher Miss Terri Mooney in the children's television serial Grange Hill; a role she played from 1980 to 1983. In 1985–1986 she played Georgie Pillson's trusty housemaid Foljambe in two series of Mapp and Lucia, adapted by London Weekend Television from the novels of E. F. Benson. She also appeared in Thomas and Sarah, a spin-off from Upstairs, Downstairs, playing Emily Rudge.

Lucinda Gane
Born
Lucinda Catherine Gane

(1949-10-20)20 October 1949
South Africa
Died6 October 2005(2005-10-06) (aged 55)
Camden, London, UK
OccupationActress
Years active1975–1998
Spouse(s)David Cann (1972–??; divorced)
Christopher Reid (1976–2005; her death)

She married David Cann in 1972, before divorcing him and remarried the poet Christopher Reid. After Gane's death from brain cancer in 2005, Reid began writing a collection of poems in tribute to his late wife. Titled A Scattering, this volume won the £30,000 Costa Book Award in 2010.

References
  1. Craig, Olga (10 January 2010). "Daily Telegraph". The Daily Telegraph. London.


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