Judy Bennett (born 1943) is a Liverpudlian voice actor whose career in radio began with the long-running soap opera The Archers, in which she has played the role of Shula Hebden-Lloyd since 1971.[2] She played Shula's twin brother Kenton and younger sister Elizabeth before assuming the role of Shula herself.[3]

She has voiced characters in a number of cartoon series, including The Perishers (1979) and Dennis the Menace and Gnasher in the late 1990s.[4]

She attended Notre Dame Mount Pleasant High School (a girls' catholic grammar school, now St Julie's Catholic High School) in Liverpool.

Bennett studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.[2] In 1976 she married Canadian-English actor Charles Collingwood,[5] who plays Archers character Brian Aldridge. Actress Jane Collingwood (born 1979) is their daughter.[6]

See also

• List of The Archers characters
• List of voice actors

Notes

References

• Collingwood, Charles (2011). Brian and Me: Life on—and off—The Archers. London: Michael O'Mara Books. ISBN 978-1-84317-755-5. OCLC 763156121.

External links

• Judy Bennett at IMDb
• "The Archers: Shula Hebden Lloyd". BBC Radio 4. BBC. Retrieved 7 September 2014.

Further reading

• "What can The Archers tell us about changing accents?". abdn.ac.uk. University of Aberdeen. 10 February 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2016.