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Frances Cuka (born 21 August 1936) is a British actress, principally on television, whose career has spanned over fifty years. Cuka (pronounced ''Chewka'') was born in London, England, the daughter of Letitia Alice Annie (née Francis), a tailor, and Joseph Cuka, a process engraver.〔http://www.filmreference.com/film/89/Frances-Cuka.html〕 The family subsequently moved to Hove. As a child she appeared on the radio, BBC's Children's Hour. She trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. After the Guildhall she joined the Theatre Workshop, where she performed in ''Macbeth'' and then in 1958 created the role of Jo in Shelagh Delaney's play ''A Taste of Honey'', continuing in the role when the play moved to the West End and Broadway. In between runs of ''A Taste of Honey'' she appeared in several plays at the Royal Court, including ''Endgame'' and ''Live Like Pigs''. In 1963 she played Becky Sharp in the musical ''Vanity Fair'', alongside George Baker and Sybil Thorndike. Cuka then moved into television. Subsequent television roles included ''Adam Adamant Lives'', ''Hammer Horror - "Charlie Boy"'', ''The Champions'' and ''Minder''. She also appeared as Doll Tearsheet in the BBC TV version of ''Henry IV, Part II''. She had recurring roles in the soap operas ''Crossroads'' and ''Coronation Street''. Film roles have included ''Scrooge'' (1970) as Bob Cratchit's wife, and ''Henry VIII and his Six Wives'' (1972) as Catherine of Aragon. From 2006 to 2009, she played the recurring role of a troublesome tramp called Mrs Bassey in the popular medical drama ''Casualty''. Her final appearance was in September 2009, when her character died from severe burns after being involved in an explosion at a shopping centre. In 2010, she played Lady Bracknell for Logos Theatre Company at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, in the unusual four-act version of ''The Importance of Being Earnest''. From March 2011, she appeared in the Channel 4 sitcom ''Friday Night Dinner'', as the grandma of the characters played by Simon Bird and Tom Rosenthal. Cuka was the second actress to play Peggy Mitchell in the BBC1 soap opera EastEnders in 1994. She had fimed several scenes of the character and was axed from the show and all her scenes were scrapped before casting Barbara Windsor. ==Selected filmography== * ''Over the Odds'' (1961) * ''Scrooge'' (1970) * ''Henry VIII and his Six Wives'' (1972) * ''Hide and Seek'' (1972) * ''The Watcher in the Woods'' (1980) * ''Mountains of the Moon'' (1990) * ''Afraid of the Dark'' (1991) * ''Snow White: A Tale of Terror'' (1997) * ''Swimming Pool'' (2003) * ''Oliver Twist'' (2005) * ''Closer to the Moon'' (2014) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frances Cuka」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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