Cherie Lunghi Movies and Career Information

Cherie Lunghi (born 4 April 1952) is an English film, television and theatre actress. She is probably best known for her role as Guinevere in the 1981 film Excalibur, as football manageress Gabriella Benson in the 1990s television series The Manageress and for starring in a series of adverts for Kenco coffee. She also competed in the 2008 series of Strictly Come Dancing. She is the mother of the actress Nathalie Lunghi. Lunghi was born in Nottingham. Her father, Alessandro Lunghi, was Italian and her mother was English. After her father returned to Italy, she was brought up in west London by her mother and her aunts. Educated at the Arts Educational School in London, Lunghi played Hedvig in The Wild Duck and Alice in Alice in Wonderland on BBC radio while still at school. After graduating from Homerton College, Cambridge and London's Central School of Speech and Drama, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in the late 1970s, taking leading roles such as Perdita, Cordelia and Viola. Lunghi left the RSC to pursue a career in film, with probably her best known role as Guinevere in the 1981 film Excalibur. After the birth of her daughter Nathalie and the breakdown of her