Mona Hammond

Birth : 1931-01-01, Clarendon, Jamaica, British West Indies [now Jamaica]

Death : 2022-07-04

History

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mavis Chin OBE (born January 1, 1931), known professionally as Mona Hammond is a Jamaican-British actress of Chinese descent and co-founder of the Talawa Theatre Company. Born in Jamaica, Hammond emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1959, where she has lived ever since. Hammond has had a long and distinguished stage career. She is best known for her work on British television, most notably playing Blossom Jackson in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mona Hammond, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Movies

Bucky

A story seen from the eyes of a five-year-old boy who, through no fault of his own, comes face to face with disaster.

10,000 BC

Old Mother

A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.

Kinky Boots

Pat

Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, central England, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Charles has a chance encounter with the flamboyant drag queen cabaret singer Lola and everything changes.

Imagine Me & You

Mrs Edwards

During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. The two women become close friends, and when Rachel learns that Luce is a lesbian, she realizes that despite her happy marriage to Heck, she is falling for Luce. As she questions her sexual orientation, Rachel must decide between her stable relationship with Heck and her exhilarating new romance with Luce.

Manderlay

Old Wilma

In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan sees a slave being punished at a cotton farm called Manderlay. Officially slavery is illegal and Grace stands up against the owners of the farm. She stays with some gangsters in Manderlay and tries to influence the situation. But when harvest time comes Grace sees the social and economic reality of Manderlay.

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

Louise the Maid

The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings as a comic performer on BBC Radio to his huge success as one of the greatest film comedians of all time; an obsessive artist so dedicated to his work that neglected his loved ones and sacrificed part of his own personality to convincingly create that of his many memorable characters.

White Teeth

Hortense

An adaptation of Zadie Smith's bestseller concerning the lives of two families from as far back as the 1800s and India to late 1990s Willesden.

Pure

Customer

A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.

Storm Damage

Agnes

Storm Damage is a 2000 British television drama film directed by Simon Cellan Jones, written by Lennie James, and starring Adrian Lester, Mona Hammond and Kate Ashfield. The film is about a young teacher who returns to the children’s care home where he grew up, and becomes involved with the lives of the troubled teenage children. It was broadcast by BBC Two on 23 January 2000.

When Love Dies

Bella

A young man looks back over his unhappy marriage and struggles to come to terms with his wife's suicide.

Playboy of the West Indies

Mama Benin

Based on J. M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World. Peggy Ford runs her father's rum bar in Mayaro, a quiet fishing village in Trinidad. Nothing much happens in Mayaro until a handsome young stranger appears and insists that he has just murdered his father.

Fords on Water

Winston's Mother

Influential, cult classic, UK buddy road movie about two friends, one white and one black, who bond over their desire to escape from boredom and unemployment in Thatcher's Britain.

Victims of Apartheid

Zazie

George, a black South African, finds it hard to settle down in London after his experiences in South Africa.

Club Havana

Mrs. Jordan

After 12 years away, Mrs Jordan’s son arrives in Birmingham from Jamaica. Writer Barry Reckord returns to the theme of an interracial relationship which causes conflict within a Jamaican family. Reconstructed from the surviving unedited studio footage by Simon Coward (Research Manager, Kaleidoscope). An episode of the BBC drama series Second City Firsts.