Gwyneth Strong
Gwyneth Strong is an English actress. She is best known for her role in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses as Cassandra, the love interest and, later, wife of Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst).
Strong's first acting appearance was in the Royal Court Theatre's production Live Like Pigs, when she was eleven. In 1973, whilst a pupil at Holland Park School, she appeared in the horror film Nothing But the Night as Mary Valley, and she was a regular in the children's TV series The Flockton Flyer between 1977 and 1979, as Jan Carter.
As well as her prominent role in the later series of Only Fools and Horses, she has appeared in the "Observation" segment about Detective Samantha Smith made for the 1990 series of The Krypton Factor, the two-part drama serial The Missing Postman as WPC Rachel McMahon, the BBC drama Real Women from 1997 to 1998, as Hetty in ITV's Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married (1999), and in BBC drama Casualty in 2013 as Jim Brodie's wife, Elizabeth.
Strong featured in the television film It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow (1975), written by Bernard Kops and directed by John Goldschmidt, depicting the real-life drama of the Bethnal Green tube disaster in the Second World War. She also appeared in the "True Confessions" two-part episode of the series A Touch of Frost, reuniting her on screen with her Only Fools and Horses co-star David Jason.
She appeared on the West End stage in 2008, in the musical Our House, in which she played Kath Casey. In May 2010, Strong appeared in an episode of Midsomer Murders.
On 16 September 2016, she joined the cast of the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders, in the recurring role of Geraldine Clough.
Strong married former Footballers' Wives and Eldorado star Jesse Birdsall on 15 July 2000. They have one son Oscar (born 1988), and one daughter Lottie (born 1991) She now lives in Bexhill, East Sussex.
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Films (27)
In Love with Alma Cogan
2011 · Laura
Mi Gran Boda Judía
2004 · Darren's Mum
More Great Comedy Moments
2003 · Cassandra Trotter (archive footage)
The Story of Only Fools and Horses
2002 · Self
The Missing Postman
1997 · WPC Rachel McMahon
Crime Time
1996 · Gwenda
Thin Ice
1995 · Cath
Injustes noces
1993 · Cynthia
Double vue
1992 · Blind Mother with Baby
Only Fools & Horses - Miami Twice - The Movie
1991 · Cassandra Trotter
Living with Dinosaurs
1990 · Teacher
Bosses From Hell
1989
Cry Freedom
1987 · Girl at Funeral
Parker
1985 · Andrea
White City
1985 · Girlfriend
Rainy Day Women
1984 · Linda
The Story of Ruth
1982 · Sharon
The Factory
1981 · Penny Shepherd
Electric in the City
1980 · Kerwin's Follower
Ladies
1980 · Anne
Bloody Kids
1980 · Jan, Ken's Girlfriend
Dark Water
1980 · Jo
No Mama No
1979 · Girl junkie
Age of Hypocrisy
1977 · Madeleine & Tempe Iverson
Early Struggles
1976 · Carol
It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow
1975 · Jane Bell
Nothing But the Night
1973 · Mary Valley
Séries (44)
Only Fools and Horses: The Lost Archive
2026 · Self
The Story of Only Fools and Horses
2017 · Self
The Great Train Robbery
2013 · Dorothy
Ash et Scribbs
2004 · Pat Dawson
New Tricks
2004 · Kim Newley
Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show
2000
Doctors
2000 · Dee
Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
1999 · Hetty
Forgotten
1999 · Denise Longden
Real Women
1998 · Janet Crossley
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
1997 · DI Richards
The Missing Postman
1997 · WPC Rachel McMahon
Inspecteur Barnaby
1997 · Katie Soper
Affaires non classées
1996 · Patricia Denning
Paul Merton in Galton & Simpson's
1996 · Joyce
99-1
1994 · Charlotte
Inspecteur Frost
1992 · DS Bailey
Nice Town
1992 · Linda Thompson
Shrinks
1991 · Sally Thornton
The Jim Henson Hour
1989 · Teacher
Paradise Postponed
1986 · Tina Kitson
Casualty
1986 · Elizabeth Brodie, Ceri Mayland, Catherine Caldwell, Margaret Collier
King of the Ghetto
1986 · Sadie Deedes
EastEnders
1985 · Geraldine Clough
Inside Out
1985 · Beverly Grabowski
Screen Two
1985 · Cynthia
The Bill
1984 · Mary Painter
Dramarama
1983 · Rachel's Sister
Spooky
1983 · Alice
Mr. Right
1983 · Gloria
Only Fools and Horses
1981 · Cassandra Parry
Minder
1979 · Juror
The Flockton Flyer
1977 · Jan
Jubilee 1977
1977 · Madeleine Iverson / Tempe Iverson
Just William
1977 · Lanky Girl
Shadows
1975 · HoneyAnn, Elizabeth
Angels
1975 · Evie
Edward the Seventh
1975 · Minny
Playhouse
1974 · Kerwin's Follower
Crown Court
1972 · Sandra Petrie
The Adventures of Black Beauty
1972 · Cicely Eglinton
Play for Today
1970 · Penny Shepherd, Anne, Carol, Linda
ITV Playhouse
1967 · Girl junkie
Z-Cars
1962 · Janet Hurst