EULAC_6706 Carmen Munroe OBE "Carmen Munroe\u00a0is a British actress best known for her role as Shirley, the wife of barber Desmond Ambrose, played by Norman Beaton, in the British TV sitcom Desmond\u2019s (1989 to 1994).\u00a0She was born\u00a0in Berbice,\u00a0Guyana\u00a0on November 12th 1932 and has been a resident\u00a0of the UK since the early 1950\u2019s where\u00a0she performed with the West Indian Students\u2019 Drama Group.\r\nIn 1962 she made her professional stage debut at London\u2019s Wyndham\u2019s Theatre in Tennessee Williams\u2019 Period of Adjustment, and later played leading roles in other West End productions: Alun Owen\u2019s There\u2019ll Be Some Changes Made (1969), Jean Genet\u2019s The Blacks (1970), and as Orinthia in George Bernard Shaw\u2019s The Apple Cart (1970).\r\nCarmen has\u00a0played an instrumental role in the development of black British theatre and representation on small screen. She has had high-profile roles on television in The Fosters (1976\u201377), Mixed Blessings (1978\u201380), both on ITV, and on stage in Lorraine Hansberry\u2019s A Raisin in the Sun, Alice Childress\u2019s Trouble in Mind and James Baldwin\u2019s The Amen Corner.\u00a0\u00a0 Some of her other roles include a part in the 1967 Doctor Who story \u201cThe Enemy of the World\u201d; a part in General Hospital; and she was for a time a presenter of Play School. She is also one of the founders of Talawa, the UK\u2019s leading black theatre company, which she established in 1985 together with Mona Hammond, Inigo Espegel and Yvonne Brewster." This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 693669. Person TEXT University of St Andrews EULAC "Carmen Munroe\u00a0is a British actress best known for her role as Shirley, the wife of barber Desmond Ambrose, played by Norman Beaton, in the British TV sitcom Desmond\u2019s (1989 to 1994).\u00a0She was born\u00a0in Berbice,\u00a0Guyana\u00a0on November 12th 1932 and has been a resident\u00a0of the UK since the early 1950\u2019s where\u00a0she performed with the West Indian Students\u2019 Drama Group.\r\nIn 1962 she made her professional stage debut at London\u2019s Wyndham\u2019s Theatre in Tennessee Williams\u2019 Period of Adjustment, and later played leading roles in other West End productions: Alun Owen\u2019s There\u2019ll Be Some Changes Made (1969), Jean Genet\u2019s The Blacks (1970), and as Orinthia in George Bernard Shaw\u2019s The Apple Cart (1970).\r\nCarmen has\u00a0played an instrumental role in the development of black British theatre and representation on small screen. She has had high-profile roles on television in The Fosters (1976\u201377), Mixed Blessings (1978\u201380), both on ITV, and on stage in Lorraine Hansberry\u2019s A Raisin in the Sun, Alice Childress\u2019s Trouble in Mind and James Baldwin\u2019s The Amen Corner.\u00a0\u00a0 Some of her other roles include a part in the 1967 Doctor Who story \u201cThe Enemy of the World\u201d; a part in General Hospital; and she was for a time a presenter of Play School. She is also one of the founders of Talawa, the UK\u2019s leading black theatre company, which she established in 1985 together with Mona Hammond, Inigo Espegel and Yvonne Brewster." "Carmen Munroe\u00a0is a British actress best known for her role as Shirley, the wife of barber Desmond Ambrose, played by Norman Beaton, in the British TV sitcom Desmond\u2019s (1989 to 1994).\u00a0She was born\u00a0in Berbice,\u00a0Guyana\u00a0on November 12th 1932 and has been a resident\u00a0of the UK since the early 1950\u2019s where\u00a0she performed with the West Indian Students\u2019 Drama Group.\r\nIn 1962 she made her professional stage debut at London\u2019s Wyndham\u2019s Theatre in Tennessee Williams\u2019 Period of Adjustment, and later played leading roles in other West End productions: Alun Owen\u2019s There\u2019ll Be Some Changes Made (1969), Jean Genet\u2019s The Blacks (1970), and as Orinthia in George Bernard Shaw\u2019s The Apple Cart (1970).\r\nCarmen has\u00a0played an instrumental role in the development of black British theatre and representation on small screen. She has had high-profile roles on television in The Fosters (1976\u201377), Mixed Blessings (1978\u201380), both on ITV, and on stage in Lorraine Hansberry\u2019s A Raisin in the Sun, Alice Childress\u2019s Trouble in Mind and James Baldwin\u2019s The Amen Corner.\u00a0\u00a0 Some of her other roles include a part in the 1967 Doctor Who story \u201cThe Enemy of the World\u201d; a part in General Hospital; and she was for a time a presenter of Play School. She is also one of the founders of Talawa, the UK\u2019s leading black theatre company, which she established in 1985 together with Mona Hammond, Inigo Espegel and Yvonne Brewster." Story