- Born
- Birth nameJudy Valerie Cornwell
- Height5′ 2½″ (1.59 m)
- Judy Cornwell is most famous for her supporting role as Daisy, the sister of Patricia Routledge's Hyacinth Bucket, in the hugely popular BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances (1990). She was born in London and grew up in England, where she attended a convent school before moving to Australia where her parents, Irene McCullen Cornwell and Darcy Nigel Barry, emigrated. A granddaughter of music-hall singer Sarah Bonner, Cornwell became a classical stage actress after having worked her way up to it from starting as a dancer and singer in pantomime, vaudeville, cabaret, and musical revues.
Cornwell has also authored a number of novels, including "Cow and Cow Parsley" (1985), "Fishcakes at the Ritz" (1989), "The Seventh Sunrise" (1994) and "Fear and Favour" (1996). According to Cornwell, John Nathan-Turner was hoping to make a film of "Fear and Favour" before his untimely death in 2002 at the age of 54.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous - According to an article about Judy published in early1985, she made her acting debut in pantomime aged fifteen in her home town of Brighton. Years later, she was to on the board of the management of the West Pier Trust. She is also on the board of Ceres House, a school for the mentally and physically handicapped, and Friends of MacKeith, connected to the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children in Brighton (having taken over the presidency of the East Sussex branch of the National Association of Deaf Children from the late Dame Flora Robson). She is also on the committees of the South Regional Arts Board and Equity, and, at one time, was the youngest person to be elected to the National Council on Alcoholism (now disbanded) and a member of the institute of Alcohol Studies .In early 1985, she was playing Ms Christmas, the house mother to 300 middle aged men playing elves (one being Dudley Moore) in Santa Clause the Movie.
- IMDb mini biography by: Tonyman 5
- SpouseJohn Kelsall Parry(December 18, 1960 - present) (1 child)
- ChildrenEdward Parry
- ParentsIrene McCullen CornwellDarcy Nigel Barry
- She loves mythology and incorporates it into her novels.
- She was a cast member of the radio comedy series "The Navy Lark", which starred Jon Pertwee, who also played the Third Doctor in Doctor Who (1963). She later appeared in the series when it starred the Seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy.
- She was a close friend of television producer Verity Lambert.
- Started running her own dancing school, then went on to be a comic feed to Nat Mills in variety, then did comedy routines with Ronnie Corbett and Victor Spinetti in strip clubs (she kept her clothes on). She finally moved to legitimate theatre through Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop.
- Love; there is so much love about life. I learned so much from nature and animals. Love is everywhere. There are seagulls by my house; I feed them in the morning. That makes me really happy. Life is actually very simple.
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