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Trailblazing actress ***** aged 79

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Sylvestre appeared in Grange Hill and the Channel 5 reboot of All Creatures Great and Small

Trailblazing actress Cleo Sylvestre has ***** aged 79, her agent has confirmed.

She was the first ****** actress to play a leading role at the National Theatre, and to have a regular leading role in a *** soap opera, Crossroads.

Sylvestre appeared in TV series including Grange Hill and the Channel 5 reboot of All Creatures Great and Small.

Her agents Fulcrum Talent told BBC News Sylvestre would be “sorely missed by so many”.

Sylvestre also had a brief singing career, releasing a version of To Know Him is to Love Him in 1964, which featured The Rolling Stones as her backing singers. The actress had met the band at a blues night in Soho.

Last month, she appeared on an episode of The Antiques Roadshow talking about her time with the legendary rock’n’roll band.

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Sylvestre was cast in Crossroads at a time when the ITV soap had about 15 million viewers

Born in April 1945, Sylvestre grew up and was educated in Camden, north London.

She pursued a career in acting and made her West End debut at Wyndham’s Theatre in 1967’s Wise Child, written by Simon Gray.

The actress went on to become the first ****** woman to have leading role in a National Theatre production when she appeared in Peter Nichols’ satire The National Health in 1969.

Her screen credits included appearances in TV series Till ****** Do Us Part, Doctors, Coronation Street, The Bill, New Tricks and Doctor Who, as well as a regular role in school drama Grange Hill.

She worked regularly with Ken Loach, on his first film Poor Cow and later on Cathy Come Home and Up the Junction.

After appearing in Some Women, a dramatisation of real-life stories from imprisoned women shown on BBC Two, she was spotted by TV producer Reg Watson, who cast her on ITV’s Crossroads.

She played Meg Richardson’s adopted daughter Melanie in the soap opera from 1970 to 1972.

Crossroads had about 15 million viewers at the time, and brought Sylvestre to a national audience.

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Sylvestre made her West End debut in 1967’s Wise Child, written by Simon Gray

Sylvestre was made an MBE in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to drama and charity.

Announcing her ******, Sylvestre’s agent confirmed “with deep regret” the actress ***** on Friday morning.

“Much-loved and admired by her peers, she will be remembered as a trail blazer and a true friend. She will be sorely missed by so many,” the statement added.

“We ask that you respect the privacy of her family at this difficult time.”

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“The actor #CleoSylvestreMBE has crossed over,” Greer wrote. “She was one of the reasons that – from my vantage point in NYC – I thought that this country has the best anglophone theatre, and the best place to be a ****** woman in it. I still think that. Thank you, Cleo!”



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