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Linda as Queen Lucretia (2005)
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Born |
Linda Frances Elide Lusardi 18 September 1958 Wood Green, London, England |
Occupation | Actress |
Linda Frances Elide Lusardi (born 18 September 1958 in Wood Green, London) is an English actress, television presenter and former glamour model.
Born in Wood Green, London from a father of Italian heritage, Lusardi grew up in Palmers Green. In 1976, she began her modelling career in The Sun at the age of 18 and was voted the Best Page 3 Girl Of All Time in 2005.
As an actress, Lusardi has appeared in the drama series The Bill playing the girlfriend of corrupt officer DS Don Beech and also in Hollyoaks and Brookside. On 12 February 2007, she joined the cast of Emmerdale as Carrie Nicholls, an ex-girlfriend of Tom King and mother of his secret child, Scarlett. She left the programme after a year.
Lusardi has appeared in movies including Snappers,The Zero Imperative, Oh Minnie and Consuming Passions.
Lusardi has starred as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion at the Malvern Festival and toured in Happy as A Sandbag, Funny Peculiar, Bedside Manners, Not Now Darling, Rock with Laughter, No Sex Please We're British Doctor on The Boil. Lusardi took her own show the British Forces in Belize, the Falklands and Northern Ireland
She is a supporter of UK pantomime and often stars with her husband Sam Kane each Christmas at major theatres in the UK. Recent venues have been Woking, Southend, Plymouth, and Llandudno. Lusardi has starred in over 25 pantomimes