Faith Brown

Faith Brown
Born	Eunice Irene Caroll (1944-05-28) 28 May 1944 (age 80) Liverpool, England, UK
Occupation(s)	Actress, singer, comedian, impressionist

Faith Brown (born Eunice Irene Carroll; 28 May 1944) is an English actress, singer, comedian and impressionist. She was a star of the ITV impressions show Who Do You Do?, and was The Voice in the TV show Trapped!.

Brown was born in Liverpool and attended St Francis De Sales School, Walton. She was a singer in a vocal group (the Carrolls) with her brothers, and was then for a time a solo singer, before using her talent for mimicry to switch to comedy impressions.

Her comedy special, The Faith Brown Awards,^[1] produced by London Weekend Television for the ITV network, received an audience of 9.8 million viewers when it was broadcast in September 1978.^[2] This was followed by the six part series, The Faith Brown Chat Show, in January 1980. She won a TV Times award for 'Funniest Woman on TV' in the same year.^[3]

She has appeared as a guest star performing songs and impressions on several TV variety shows, including The Cannon and Ball Show (1980), Summertime Special (1981) and Live From Her Majesty's (1983).

She was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1982 when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews while appearing as a guest on the ITV entertainment show Game For A Laugh.

She has appeared as a panelist on Celebrity Squares, Give Us A Clue, Blankety Blank, Punchlines, New Faces and Win, Lose or Draw plus several other TV entertainment shows, and the reality show I'm a Celebrity…Get Me out of Here! (2006).

As an actress, her television roles include the Doctor Who serial Attack of the Cybermen (1985) and Anne Bradley in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside (1996).

On stage, she played the role of Norma Desmond in the first UK touring production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard (2001-2002). Her stage work also includes Summer Holiday at the Opera House Theatre, Blackpool (1996), the UK touring production of Nunsense (2004), and Boys in the Buff at the Edinburgh Festival (2007).

Selected television credits

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1975–1976	For My Next Trick	Herself, Resident Singer	14 episodes, BBC
1976	Ken Dodd's World of Laughter	Cast Member	BBC
	Who Do You Do?	Various Impressions	8 episodes, LWT
1977-1978	Celebrity Squares	Panelist	Episodes: 2.38, 2.41 & 3.9
1978	The Faith Brown Awards	Various Impressions	LWT Special
1979	Blankety Blank	Panelist	Episodes: 1.7 & 1.11
1980	The Faith Brown Chat Show	Various Impressions	6 episodes, LWT
	Cannon and Ball for Christmas	Special Guest	LWT Special
1981	Summertime Special	Guest - various impressions	1 episode, BBC
1983	Live From Her Majesty's	Musical Guest	1 episode, LWT
1983–1984	Punchlines	Herself	8 episodes, LWT
1984-1985	Blankety Blank	Panelist	Episodes: 7.13, 8.1 & 9.13
1985	Doctor Who	Flast	Guest Star, Attack of the Cybermen Part II, BBC
1986	I Feel Fine	Various Impressions	Granada TV Special
	Cinderella: The Shoe Must Go On	Fairy Godmother	Central Independent Television Special
1989	The Little and Large Show	Guest Star	Episode 9.8
1992–1996	Win, Lose or Draw	Guest Panellist	15 episodes, Scottish Television
1996	Brookside	Anne Bradley	7 episodes, Mersey Television
2006	I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!	Herself	Contestant, Series 6
2008–2010	Trapped!	The Voice	39 Episodes, CBBC

Selected theatre credits

Year	Title	Role	Venue
1987	Beauty is the Business[4]		UK Tour
1996	Summer Holiday[5]	Stella Winters	Opera House Theatre, Blackpool
2001–2002	Sunset Boulevard[6]	Norma Desmond	UK Tour
2004	Nunsense[7]	Sister Mary Regina	UK Tour
2007	Faith Brown: Up Front[8]	Herself	UK Tour
	Boys in the Buff[9]	Diana Diamonte	Edinburgh Festival Fringe
2009	The Best of British Variety Tour[10]	Herself	UK Tour

References

1. "The Faith Brown Awards". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 16 April 2023. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
2. Barfe, Louis (January 2013). Turned Out Nice Again: The Story of British Light Entertainment. ISBN 9781848877573. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
3. ITV (1982). Who's Who On Television. ITV Books / Michael Joseph. ISBN 0900727950.
4. "Beauty is the Business". chesterfieldtheatrefriends.co.uk. Archived from the original on 14 January 2020. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
5. "Faith's Hope". theboltonnews.co.uk. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
6. "Faith Brown to star as Norma Desmond". reallyuseful.com. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
7. "Nunsense". UK Theatre Web. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
8. "Faith Brown: Up Front Review". The Stage. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
9. "Faith Brown and Her Boys in the Buff". broadwaybaby.com. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
10. "The Best of British Variety Tour 2009". tdpromo.com. Retrieved 10 May 2016.

External links

• Faith Brown at IMDb
• 45cat discography