Cleo Rocos
| Cleo Rocos | |
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| Born |
24 July 1962 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Cleo Rocos (born 24 July 1962,Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a UK-based comedy actress, producer, presenter and businesswoman, who starred alongside Kenny Everett on The Kenny Everett Television Show.
Due to her father's work in shipping, Rocos was born in Brazil of a Greek father and an English mother. She came to England as a child to attend school. She took acting classes whilst at school and a chance meeting with BBC director Alan Bell and Head of Light Entertainment Jim Moir led to an audition for a new television show.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, Rocos appeared regularly on television, from a minor role in the TV adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to being a roving reporter for the consumer affairs show That's Life!. She was most frequently seen in Kenny Everett's BBC series The Kenny Everett Television Show, in which her glamorous and curvaceous figure was often used to comic effect – a role echoed by her similar appearances in the 1985 TV sketch series Assaulted Nuts. She also appeared alongside Everett in BBC1 science quiz series Brainstorm, playing a white-coated lab assistant and ran for one series in 1988.
In the late 1980s to the early 1990s, Rocos starred in a Welsh comedy show on S4C called Pobol y Chyff. Rhys Ifans and Meirion Davies played the main characters.
An occasional sidekick to 'shock jock' DJ James Whale on late-night ITV in the early 1990s, she fulfilled a similar role with TV critic Garry Bushell on ITV nocturnal TV-review series Bushell on the Box. She also made a few appearances in the Ugly Bloke slot, as an incongruously glamorous escort to physically unattractive males, on Chris Evans' Channel 4 series TFI Friday in about 1996.
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