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Faith Brown
British entertainer (born 1944) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.[citation needed]
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, Summertime Special, Live From Her Majesty's, 3-2-1, The Grumbleweeds and The Little and Large Show.
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 credits include the roles of Flast in the Doctor Who serial Attack of the Cybermen (1985) and Anne Bradley in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside (1996).
On stage, she played Norma Desmond in the 2001-2002 UK tour of Sunset Boulevard.[4] Her musical theatre credits also include the roles of Miss Hannigan in Annie at Guildford and Portsmouth,[5] Stella Winters in the 1996 stage adaptation of Summer Holiday at the Opera House, Blackpool,[6] Sister Mary Regina in the 2004 UK tour of Nunsense,[7] and Diana Diamonte in Boys in the Buff at the Edinburgh Festival (2007).[8]
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Albums
With The Carrolls:
- 1967: "The Carrolls", Electrecord
Singles
With The Carrolls:
- 1966: "Surrender Your Love" / "The Folk I Love", Polydor Records
- 1968: "So Gently Falls The Rain" / "Nice To See You Darling", CBS Records
- 1968: "Ever Since" / "Come On", CBS Records
- 1968: "Lemon Balloon And A Blue Sky" / "Make Me Belong To You", CBS Records
- 1969: "We're In This Thing Together" / "We Know Better", CBS Records
Solo Recordings:
- 1970: "Lock Me In" / "The Game Of Love", CBS Records
- 1971: "Any Way That You Want Me" / "City Wine", Penny Farthing Records
- 1972: "Take Me with You" / "If We Only Have Love", Regal Zonophone Records
- 1973: "Stone The Crows" / "Turn On The Light", Pye Records
- 1974: "Your Love's An Illusion" / "Right Between The Eyes", Pye Records
- 1975: "Bingo" / "Saturday Night Is The Night For A Party", Pye Records
As Featured Artist:
- 1985: "Doctor in Distress" (as part of Who Cares?), Record Shack Records
Cast Recordings
- 2001: "Songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard" (with Earl Carpenter), Really Useful Records
Compilations
- 2000: "You Are Awful... But We Like You! (Showbiz Comedy Titbits Of The 60's and 70's)" (Track: "Stone The Crows"), Sequel Records
- 2009: "The Girls Are At It Again: UK Beat Girls 1964-1969" (Track: "Surrender Your Love"), Universal Music
- 2022: "...But I Like You: Celebrities in the Studio" (Track: "Bingo"), Countdown Media
- 2023: "Let's Go Disco: Britain's Dancing Years" (Track: "Your Love's An Illusion"), Countdown Media
- 2024: "Denim Disco: The World of Glam Pop Floorfillers" (Track: "Right Between The Eyes"), Countdown Media
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