Cherie Lunghi
| Cherie Lunghi | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Cherie Mary Lunghi 4 April 1952 Nottingham, England |
| Occupation | Actress, dancer |
| Years active | 1965–present |
| Spouse(s) | Ralph Lawson (union dissolved; no children) |
| Children | Nathalie Lunghi (daughter) |
Cherie Mary Lunghi (born 4 April 1952) is an English film, television, and theatre actress, known for her roles in many British TV dramas. Her international fame stems from her role as Guinevere in the 1981 film Excalibur. Her long list of screen, stage, and TV credits include football manageress Gabriella Benson in the 1990s television series The Manageress and a series of advertisements 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, Gladys Lee, was English. After her father returned to Italy, she was brought up in west London by her mother and aunts.
Educated at London's Arts Educational School, 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. She left the RSC to pursue a career in film, landing the role of Guinevere in the film Excalibur (1981).
She starred in the 1982 television serial Praying Mantis, based on the book (Les Mantes Religieuses) by Hubert Monteilhet. The thriller co-starred Pinkas Braun, Carmen du Sautoy, and Jonathan Pryce. In the mid-1980s, she relocated to Los Angeles for eight years, but returned to England to care for her mother. Lunghi has a daughter, actress Nathalie Lunghi (born 1986), from a relationship with director Roland Joffé. After the birth of her daughter and the end of her relationship with Joffé she took various short-term parts, including playing the band members' mutual love interest in the music video for Level 42's song "Something About You".
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