Gwyneth Powell is a white who held from Britain and was born on July 5, 1946. She was an English actress who is best known for her portrayal of headmistress Bridget McCluskey in the BBC television series Grange Hill for eleven series between 1981 and 1991.
Gwyneth Powell children: Did Gwyneth Powell have kids?
Gwyneth is not known to have children because she has never mentioned anything of such. However, she was a married woman who got married to actor Alan Leith and lived in Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex, where she was a patron of a local drama group, the Hurstpierpoint Players. The couple were married for more than a decade now before meeting her death. She died from complications of surgery for a perforated colon in Brighton, on 8 September 2022, at the age of 76.
Gwyneth’s first major television role was in the 1971 LWT dystopian drama series, The Guardians. She was a regular, if minor, a player in many television dramas until being cast in Grange Hill, in which she played the “firm but fair” headmistress Bridget (“The Midget”) McClusky for eleven years. Of her role, she said in 2008:
At first, Mrs McClusky was written as a ‘twin set and pearls’ role but I was quite young at the time and didn’t want to play it like that. We started with the clothes and she was quite fashion-conscious and chic. I was told by lots of people she was a great fillip to young women teachers who started applying for headships. The show had repercussions in all kinds of ways and the character did too. My period did coincide with the Thatcher years. I think Mrs McClusky became memorable because we had a prime minister like that.
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