Gwyneth Powell, actress who played the headmistress Bridget McClusky in Grange Hill for 11 years – obituary
msn.comNancy Reagan and performed by some of them at the White House. A measure of the immortality enjoyed by Gwyneth Powell’s Grange Hill role came in 2009 when the time-travelling drama Ashes to Ashes included a flashback to 1982 with a clip of Mrs McClusky.
Gwyneth Powell was born in Manchester on July 5 1946 to Sidney, a factory worker, and Mary (née Bustard). Her father played in a Salvation Army band in which her mother sang.
She acted in productions at Cheadle County Grammar School for Girls, first as Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, instilling in her a love of not just the stage, but also Shakespeare.
From the age of 16, she spent five years performing with the National Youth Theatre, during which time she trained as a teacher at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London.
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