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Carmen Munroe OBE (born 12 November 1932)〔("Carmen Monroe, Actress & Officer of the Order of the British Empire Awardee" ), Guyanese Girls Rock, 8 November 2012.〕 is a British actress who was born in Berbice, Guyana, and has been a resident of the UK since the early 1950s. Munroe made her West End stage debut in 1962 and has played an instrumental role in the development of black British theatre and representation on small screen. She has had high-profile roles on stage and television, perhaps best known from the British TV sitcom ''Desmond's'' as Shirley, wife of the eponymous barber played by Norman Beaton. ==Career== Munroe first appeared on the West End stage in 1962 at London's Wyndham's Theatre in Tennessee Williams’s ''Period of Adjustment'', and went on to leading roles in other West End productions,〔Marjorie H. Morgan, ("Biography - Carmen Munroe" ), ''Caribbean Britain: The Cultural and Biographical Directory'', 2013 (via Historical Geographies).〕 such as Alun Owen’s ''There’ll Be Some Changes Made'' (1969), Jean Genet’s ''The Blacks'' (1970), and as Orinthia in George Bernard Shaw’s ''The Apple Cart'' (1970).〔 She also acted in such notable plays as Lorraine Hansberry's ''A Raisin in the Sun'', Alice Childress's ''Trouble in Mind'' and James Baldwin's ''The Amen Corner''. She directed James Saunders' play ''Alas, Poor Fred'' for the Umoja Theatre, and also the British premiere of ''Remembrance'', by Derek Walcott at London's Art Theatre in 1987.〔Seb Whyte, ("Munroe, Carmen (1932-)" ), BFI Screenonline.〕 Her work for television has encompassed being for a time a presenter of ''Play School'' as well as the BBC's lunchtime children's programme ''How Do You Do'', and a wide variety of acting appearances. These include a part in the 1967 ''Doctor Who'' story ''The Enemy of the World''; a part in ''General Hospital'', in ''The Persuaders'' (1971), Barry Reckord's ''In the Beautiful Caribbean'' (BBC 1972), Alfred Fagon's ''Shakespeare Country'' (BBC 1973), ''The Fosters'' (LWT, 1976–77), Michael Abbensetts' ''Black Christmas'' (BBC, 1977), ''Mixed Blessings'' (1978–80), Horace Ové's ''A Hole in Babylon'' (BBC, 1979), and Caryl Phillips' ''The Hope and the Glory'' (BBC, 1984). She became best known, however, for her regular appearances between 1989 and 1994 in the Channel 4 sitcom ''Desmond's'' (written by Trix Worrell) as Shirley, wife of the eponymous barber Desmond Ambrose, played by Norman Beaton. Her film career included roles in ''Naked Evil'' (1966), ''All Neat in Black Stockings'' (1968) and ''The Chain'' (1984). She is one of the founders of Talawa, the UK's leading black theatre company, which she established in 1985 together with Mona Hammond, Inigo Espegel and Yvonne Brewster.〔("Talawa Turns 25" ), ''The Voice'', 9 October 2011.〕 In 2005/06 Munroe acted in a series of three African-American plays at the Tricycle Theatre, Kilburn. The plays were ''Walk Hard'', written by Abram Hill and directed by Nicholas Kent, followed by ''Gem of the Ocean'', written by August Wilson and directed by Paulette Randall, where Munroe acted in the role of Aunt Esther Tyler, and finally Lynn Nottage's ''Fabulation'', directed by Indhu Rubasingham. Most recently, she acted in Allister Bain's play ''Catalysta'', directed by Robert Icke, receiving rave reviews for her performance as Eartha. In 2013, Munroe appeared in the CBBC children's comedy/drama show ''The Dumping Ground'' (sequel to ''Tracy Beaker Returns'') as Gina's mother Hattie. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carmen Munroe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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