Cindy O'Callaghan
Cindy O'Callaghan | |
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Born | Child psychologist | 18 October 1956
Years active | 1971–2001 |
Children | 1 |
Cindy O'Callaghan is an
child psychologist
.
Career
O'Callaghan played Carrie Rawlins in Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), where she starred opposite Angela Lansbury and David Tomlinson. She has appeared in numerous television programmes throughout the 1970s, '80s, '90s and early 2000s, including ITV's The Bill, Casualty, Specials, Boon, Rumpole of the Bailey, Woof! and as Linda Kennedy in the BBC soap opera Triangle, among others. She has appeared in films, including Hanover Street and I.D.
More recently she is known for her role as
Ashraf Karim
— from 1989-90.
O'Callaghan attended university in 2000, and in 2004 it was reported that she had given up acting to become a
child psychologist. However, O'Callaghan has appeared on television since this time, in the 2005 documentary The 100 Greatest Family Films, where she discussed the movie Bedknobs and Broomsticks, along with co-stars Angela Lansbury and Ian Weighill, who played Charlie Rawlins in the film.[citation needed
]
Selected filmography
Film credits include:
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
- Hanover Street (1979)
- Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective (1981)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983)
- I.D. (1995)
Television credits include:
- Thursday's Child(1972-1973)
- Target(1978)
- Play For Today(1979)
- Angels (1980)
- Fox (1980)
- Triangle (1981)
- Gems (1985-1986)
- No Place Like Home (1986)
- Rockliffe's Babies(1988)
- Rumpole of the Bailey (1988)
- Boon (1989)
- Specials (1991)
- Bergerac (1991)
- Virtual Murder (1992)
- Love Hurts (1993)
- Woof! (1997)
- Casualty (1993; 1995)
- EastEnders (1989–1990; 1994–1995; 1999)
- The Bill (1992; 1999; 1997; 2001)
References
- ISBN 978-0-563-55178-2.
External links
- Cindy O'Callaghan at IMDb