Roberta Taylor

Born out of wedlock to Robert Alexander Archer, an already married bus conductor, Taylor was brought up by her mother Winifred Roberts, aunts, and grandmother.[7]^[3][8]

She married Victor Taylor on 1 April 1966.^[9][1] The couple had a son but divorced in the early 1970s.^[10] Taylor met actor Peter Guinness while working with the Glasgow Citizens Theatre. They married in September 1996 after having been together for twenty years. Guinness appeared in a few episodes of The Bill as her lover in 2007.^[10]

Books

Alongside her acting career, Taylor is an author. Her first book, Too Many Mothers, a memoir of her childhood, was published in October 2005. She was criticised by two cousins for some of the content in the book, with one of the cousins claiming that she was "too flippant about traumatic events in his difficult past". She refused to remove any of the content prior to publication, and later walked away from one of them at a book signing.^[7] Her first novel, The Reinvention of Ivy Brown, was published in November 2008.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

• Luther – Celia Lavender (2019)
• Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators – Gloria Fonteyn (2018–present)
• The Foreigner – Mrs Taylor (2017)
• Casualty – Margie Mogford (2017)
• Viceroy's House – Miss Reading (2017)
• Father Brown – Sister Paul (2013)
• Gina Gold
  (2002–2008)
• Bleak House – Mrs Pardiggle (2005)
• Murder Investigation Team – Inspector Gina Gold (2003)
• Holby City – Karen Lake (2002)
• Doctors – Rachel Whiting (2001)
• EastEnders – Irene Raymond (1997–2000)
• The Passion – Jane (1999)
• The Knock – Ms Gardiner (1997)
• Silent Witness – Dr de Groot (1997)
• Sharman – Aggie (1996)
• Dangerfield – Mrs Weatherall (1995)
• The Turnaround
  – Aggie (1995)
• Tom and Viv
  – Ottoline Morrell (1994)
• In Suspicious Circumstances – Violette Kaye (1994)
• Minder – Pat Norris (1991)
• The Witches – Chef Witch (1990)
• The Bill– Angie Purser (1990)
• One Way Out – Athene (1989)
• Inspector Morse – Sheila Williams (1987)
• Wolcott – Mrs Godden (1981)
• Lady Killers – Roberta Martin (1980)