Mona Hammond OBE was a Jamaican-British actress and co-founder of the Talawa Theatre Company. Born in Tweedside, Jamaica, Hammond emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1959, where she lived for the rest of her life. Hammond had a long and distinguished stage career.
Mona Hammond Health: What Disease Did Mona Hammond Have?
Actress Mona Hammond passed away at the age of 91, she was born on the 1st of January 1931 in Clarendon, Jamaica. Tributes are flooding in for the “trailblazer” star. However, the cause of her death has not been revealed to the public yet.
There were no reports of Mona suffering from illness before her death, so it is unclear at the moment what was the cause of the actress’s death.
Mona started her acting career on stage, playing Lady Macbeth in an all-Black ensemble and starring in several plays by aspiring Black playwrights including Sweet Talk & Josephine House.
Additionally, she worked on stage for two years with The Crucible, Peer Gynt, and Fuente Ovejuna for the Royal National Theatre. Before switching to EastEnders, she first worked on the television shows The Sweeney, Juliet Bravo, & Coronation Street.
Along with Holby City, she has appeared in shows including Death in Paradise, Doctor Who, The Bill, and Last of the Mohicans. She originated the character of Susu in Desmond’s cast and reprised it in the Porkpie spin-off of the series. On BBC’s The Archers, the late celebrity played Mabel Thompson, which was broadcast on television.
