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    Carmen Munroe

    British actress (born 1932)

    Dame Carmen Esme Munroe (born 12 November 1932)[1] is a British actress who was born in Berbice, British Guiana (now Guyana), and has been a resident of the UK since the early 1950s. Munroe made her West End stage debut in 1962 and has played an instrumental role in the development of black British theatre and representation on small screen. She has had high-profile roles on scen and television, perhaps best known from the British TV sitcom Desmond's as Shirley, wife of the eponymous barber played bygd Norman Beaton.

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    Carmen Esme Steele was born in New Amsterdam, Berbice, British Guiana, one of nine children.[2] Her eldest sister Daphne Steele became the first BlackMatron in the National Health Service in Britain.[3] Her mother Maude was a piano teacher and her father worked as a pharmacist who travelled around the colony to work.[4] Steele was educated at Enterprise High Sc

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    Born in Berbice, Guyana in 1932. Since the early 1950s she has been a resident of the UK. She made her West End stage debut in 1962 and has since played an instrumental role in the development of black British theatre and representation on small screen. She has had high-profile roles on television in The Fosters (1976-77), Mixed Blessings (1978-80) both on ITV and on stage in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, Alice Childress's Trouble in Mind and James Baldwin's The Amen Corner. She is however best known for her role as Shirley, the wife of eponymous barber Desmond Ambrose, played by Norman Beaton, in the British TV sitcom Desmond's (1989 to 1994). She was awarded the O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2007 Queen Elizabeth's Birthday Honors List for her services to drama.

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    Carmen Munroe was born on 12th November 1932 in the Guyanese port town of New Amsterdam. Since moving to Britain in 1951, she has led an illustrious and trailblazing career, though her first jobs were as an ophthalmic optician and a librarian.

    Munroe gained early acting experience with the West Indian Students’ Drama Group, notably in an all-Black production of Anna Christie (1959). By 1962, she had made her professional stage début, with her first television credits coming the following year. Work included Emergency – Ward 10 (1966) and the Doctor Who serial The Enemy of the World (1967), in which she played Ramón Salamander’s conspiring food taster, Fariah.

    With the dawn of a new decade, Munroe started to take leading roles. On stage, she was Orinthia in The Apple Cart (1970), the first time she had been cast in a role not specifically written for a Black actress, and played a nurse working to rehabilitate a car crash victim in the ITV televised play Ted (