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Able to bend steel bars, having developed her grip with martial arts.

Live Marple in Cheshire.

Forsyth played the cello from the age of nine, but abandoned it once she went to drama school; her ability was employed when, in 2004, she was cast in the lead role in Cello and the Nightingale, a play about internationally known cellist Beatrice Harrison that premiered at York Theatre Royal and in Killing Time (2019), an off-Broadway production in which she played the instrument and wrote the music.

Forsyth's best-known television work was Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? as Thelma Chambers / Thelma Ferris (1972-74).

Children: Zoe Mills, and Ben.

Met Brian in 1972 when she was in Adam Smith which he directed.

Son born 1978 and daughter Zoe born 1980.

Her grandfather was a doctor in the town and delivered her.

In 2003 she made her first appearance at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in their production of High Society, directed by Ian Talbot.

Perhaps best known as Madge in the BBC comedy Still Open All Hours.

Trained as a secretary before enrolling at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she won the Emile Littler Award.

A talented musician, Brigit played the cello, sang and composed.

Separated from her husband in 1999 but they remained friends and never divorced.

In 2013, Forsyth appeared as Mrs. Jennings in Helen Edmundson's BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility and as the recurring character of Pearl in Ed Reardon's Week.

In 2013, Forsyth appeared as Mrs. Jennings in Helen Edmundson's BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility[12] and as the recurring character of Pearl in Ed Reardon's Week.