Linda Henry Movies and Career Information

Linda Henry (born 1 January 1963) is an English actress, best known for her roles as Yvonne Atkins in the ITV television drama Bad Girls and Shirley Carter in the BBC's soap opera EastEnders. Henry was brought up in Peckham, London. She spent some time with the 'Old Vic Youth Theatre', and at sixteen was in the same acting group as Rowan Atkinson at Edinburgh. At seventeen she went to the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.Henry later set up a production company, Buster, which still exists although she is no longer involved with it. As well as her role in Bad Girls she is also remembered for her role as Sandra in the film Beautiful Thing, and has appeared in the British television programmes The Bill, Birds of a Feather, Touching Evil, Cracker, A Touch of Frost, Trial and Retribution as Marilyn Spark and EastEnders, where she played Lorraine Salter, the prostitute mother of the teenage tearaway Mandy (Nicola Stapleton). (Henry and Stapleton both appeared in Bad Girls, although not in the same time, as Henry's character had been killed off by the time Stapleton arrived.) She had a minor role in British film The Business as a character called Shirley, which also starred Danny