Poly Styrene(1957-2011)

Actress
Soundtrack

Poly Styrene was born on 3 July 1957 in Bromley, Kent, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Sid and Nancy (1986), Freaks of Nature (2015) and The Handmaid's Tale (2017). She died on 25 April 2011 in St. Leonards-on-Sea, East-Sussex, England, UK.

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Known for

Sid and Nancy

7.0

Soundtrack

1986

Freaks of Nature

5.9

Soundtrack

2015

The Handmaid's Tale

8.3

TV Series

Soundtrack

Fast Color

6.1

Soundtrack

2018

Credits

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Actress

X-Ray Spex: Identity
Music Video
- Poly Styrene
- 1978

Soundtrack

Black British Music at the BBC: Volume 1
7.2
TV Special
- writer: "Oh Bondage Up Yours!"
- 2026
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4
7.1
Video Game
- writer: "Identity"
- 2025
Polite Society
6.6
- writer: "Identity"
- 2023
Wendell & Wild
6.4
- writer: "Germfree Adolescence"
- writer: "I Am a Poseur"
- 2022
Titans
7.4
TV Series
- writer: "Oh Bondage Up Yours!" (uncredited)
- 2021
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
7.1
- performer: "Germ Free Adolescents", "Artificial", "Identity", "I Am a Poseur", "Oh Bondage Up Yours", "I Live Off You", "Highly Inflammable", "Let's Submerge", "Sky Diver", "The Day the World Turned Day-Glo", "Sub-Tropical", "Translucence", "Crystal Clear", "Virtual Boyfriend", "I Am a Cliché", "India", "Electric Blue Monsoon"
- writer: "Germ Free Adolescents", "Artificial", "Identity", "I Am a Poseur", "Oh Bondage Up Yours", "I Live Off You", "Highly Inflammable", "Let's Submerge", "Sky Diver", "The Day the World Turned Day-Glo", "Sub-Tropical", "Translucence", "Crystal Clear", "Virtual Boyfriend", "I Am a Cliché", "India", "Electric Blue Monsoon"
- 2021
White Riot
7.2
- writer: "Warrior in Woolworths", "Oh Bondage! Up Yours"
- 2019
Banana Split
6.2
- writer: "Obsessed with You", "I Am a Cliché"
- 2018
The Handmaid's Tale
8.3
TV Series
- writer: "Oh Bondage, Up Yours!"
- 2018
Fast Color
6.1
- writer: "Germfree Adolescents"
- 2018
Seventeen
5.6
TV Mini Series
- writer: "Oh Bondage! Up Yours!"
- 2017
Limitless
7.6
TV Series
- writer: "Oh Bondage, Up Yours!" (uncredited)
- 2016
Freaks of Nature
5.9
- writer: "Germ Free Adolescents"
- 2015
Halt and Catch Fire
8.4
TV Series
- writer: "Germ Free Adolescents" (uncredited)
- 2014
Top of the Pops: The Story of 1978
7.3
TV Movie
- writer: "The Day the World Turned Day-Glo"
- 2013

Personal details

Alternative names
- Polystyrene
Born
- July 3, 1957
- Bromley, Kent, England, UK
Died
- April 25, 2011
- St. Leonards-on-Sea, East-Sussex, England, UK(breast cancer)
Publicity listings
- 1 Biographical Movie
- 1 Article

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Trivia
Mother was Scottish-Irish, her father Somalian.

Quotes
I was never happy at school. Playground politics always disturbed my concentration and I wasn't particularly good with authority. Mum taught me to type and I soon realised that it would be either school or the office. Neither option filled me with much enthusiasm.

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