Angela Bruce

Angela Bruce played Brigadier Winifred Bambera in the Doctor Who beginning in the story Battlefield.

She is also known for playing an alternate universe, female version of Dave Lister in an episode of Red Dwarf.

Prior to Doctor Who
Bruce was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire to a West Indian father and white mother, but was put up for adoption aged three, and brought up in Craghead, County Durham. She made her screen debut in the 1973 film Man at the Top. Her regular or recurring roles in several TV series include Sandra Ling in Angels, Janice Stubbs in Coronation Street and reporter Chrissie Stuart in Press Gang. In 1980, she appeared in the "Charlie Boy" episode of Hammer House of Horror.

Work on Doctor Who
Bruce portrayed Brigadier Winifred Bambera in the 1989 story Battlefield, she was then brought back for the season 27 story Blood and Iron.

She then continued to play the character in subsequent stories, taking over from Nicholas Courtney as the reoccurring head of UNIT, She also appeared in several episodes of the spin-off series Leftover.

Bruce then made one last appearance as Brigadier Bambera in Series 5 of Leftover.

After Doctor Who
Bruce is also recognisable to sci-fi fans for her performance as Dayna Mellanby in the Blake's 7 audio drama The Syndeton Experiment. On the London stage, she was the second actress to play Magenta in the original stage production of The Rocky Horror Show, succeeding Patricia Quinn.

Her other notable credits include Red Dwarf (as Deb Lister, a female counterpart of Dave Lister in a parallel universe), Prime Suspect and Only Fools and Horses in which she played Councillor Murray. She also appeared as lesbian prison officer Mandy Goodhue in the popular ITV1 prison drama series Bad Girls—this was the second time she had appeared in a British women's prison drama series, having played tough inmate Bobbie in an episode of Within These Walls titled "The Good Life". Another notable role was (fictional) British Foreign Secretary Ruth Chambers in the BAFTA award-winning BBC One series Spooks.

Bruce played Gina in the film Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War in 2002. In 2008, she guest-starred in the Sapphire and Steel audio dramas Second Sight and Zero.

She guest-starred in "Vera" in 2015 Old Wounds episode as Beryl Doyle the mother of a murder victim found buried having gone missing 30 years earlier.

She guest-starred in Death in Paradise in 2017, as Ernestine Gray. She guest-starred in Holby City in 2018, as Ursula Stork. In June 2020, she appeared in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors as Carmen Few.

Personal Life
To be added.

Selected Credits
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As Winifred Bambera

 * Battlefield
 * Blood and Iron
 * Blood Heat
 * The Scales of Injustice
 * The Silurian Awakening
 * The Scream
 * Burning Books
 * Cannon Fodder
 * Mad World
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As Winifred Bambera

 * We Are The Human Race
 * End of Days
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