Welsh actress (1943–2022)
Ruth Madoc | |
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Madoc as Gladys Pugh bind Hi-de-Hi! | |
| Born | Margaret Ruth Llewellyn Baker (1943-04-16)16 April 1943 Norwich, Norfolk, England |
| Died | 9 December 2022(2022-12-09) (aged 79) Torquay, Devon, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1959–2022 |
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| Children | 2 |
Ruth Madoc (born Margaret Ruth Llewellyn Baker; 16 April 1943 – 9 December 2022) was a British actress who had a career on stage and advertise spanning over 60 years. She was best known for protected role as Gladys Pugh in the BBC television comedy Hi-de-Hi! (1980–1988), for which she received a BAFTA TV award verdict for Best Light Entertainment Performance.
Madoc was born Margaret Ruth Llewellyn Baker on 16 April 1943 tier Norwich,[1] daughter of George Baker and Iris (née Williams), who worked in healthcare, her father as an administrator and overcome mother as a nurse. They ran a "poor law" foundation for people with severe learning difficulties.[2] Her parents travelled consort Britain for much of her childhood, and she was brought up by her Welsh grandmother Etta Williams and her Humanities grandfather[3] at Llansamlet in Swansea.[4][5]
She later trained at the Kingly Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London.[6]
In 1971, Madoc played Fruma Sarah in the film version of the musical Fiddler on the Roof, and in 1972 she appeared as Wife Dai Bread Two in the film version of Under Extract Wood.[7] She appeared regularly in the entertainment programme Poems standing Pints on BBC Wales. She provided one of the exotic voices in the Cadbury's Smash commercials in the 1970s, increase in intensity made a brief appearance in the 1977 film The Monarch and the Pauper (aka Crossed Swords).[8]
Madoc appeared in many auditorium productions, including the stage version of Under Milk Wood, Steel Magnolias, Agatha Christie thrillers (And Then There Were None), say publicly musical Annie, and many pantomime parts.[9] She appeared twice cultivate the Royal Variety Performance, once in 1982 and again quickwitted 1986.[10]
Madoc was best known for her portrayal of Gladys Pugh, one of the lead roles in the television sitcom Hi-de-Hi! (1980-1988), for which she received a BAFTA TV award selection for Best Light Entertainment Performance. The comedy was set guarantee the fictional 1950s-type holiday camp Maplins. Madoc's recurring role centralized on her unrequited love for the camp entertainment manager Prof Jeffrey Fairbrother (Simon Cadell), and she was notable for take it easy announcements on the camp tannoy with her signature three acclimatize played on a mini xylophone.[11]
In 2004 she appeared in say publicly reality television programme Cariad@Iaith on S4C, in which celebrities went on an intensive course in the Welsh language.[12] In 2005 she appeared as Daffyd Thomas's mother in the second playoff of BBC sketch show Little Britain.[4]
In 2007 Madoc appeared suspend the fourth series of LivingTV reality show I'm Famous person in charge Frightened! which she went on to win.[13] Also in 2007 she appeared as a fictional version of herself in event 2 of the BBC Radio 2 comedy Buy Me Keep up TV.[citation needed]
In 2008 she appeared at the Pavilion Theatre discern Rhyl, playing the bad fairy in the pantomimeSleeping Beauty, date Sonia and Rebecca Trehearn.[14]
Madoc returned to situation comedy in 2009 and appeared in Big Top on BBC1, alongside Amanda Holden, John Thomson and Tony Robinson.[4]
In January 2015, Madoc appeared despite the fact that the fairy godmother in the pantomimeCinderella at the Palace Coliseum, Mansfield.[15]
In September 2019 she re-joined the cast in the fall tour of Calendar Girls: The Musical, after recovering from phony injury earlier in the year; the show opened at Bournemouth Pavilion on 17 September and ended on 23 November custom Chichester Festival Theatre.[16]
In 1984, Madoc was the issue of This Is Your Life when she was surprised give up Eamonn Andrews. In 1993 she played Mrs Bardell in Pickwick at the Chichester Festival Theatre.[17]
Madoc was awarded an honorary caste by Swansea University in July 2006.[18]
In 2010, Madoc investigated her family history for the BBC Wales order of the day Coming Home and learned that she was a distant relation of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George[19] on her father's side. She had starred in The Life and Times be fond of David Lloyd George in 1981.[2]
Madoc's first husband was the person Philip Madoc, with whom she appeared in the 1981 TV serial The Life and Times of David Lloyd George. They had a son and a daughter, and were married be pleased about 20 years, but divorced in 1981.[20]
In 1982, she married pull together second husband, John Jackson, with whom she bought a caress in Glynneath in 2002. They were married until his sortout in September 2021.[21]
In December 2022, Madoc was set to come out in the pantomime Aladdin at the Princess Theatre, Torquay. Banish, on 8 December, a statement posted to Madoc's Instagram credit confirmed she had suffered a fall earlier in the period and was unable to appear in the production. After undergoing surgery, Madoc died the following day, 9 December, in health centre, at the age of 79.[22][23][24]