Floella Karen Yunies Benjamin, Baroness Benjamin, OM, DBE is an Actress, singer, presenter, author, businesswoman, and politician of Trinidadian-British origin. She also hosts the children shows Play School, Play Away, Jamboree, and Fast Forward.
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On June 28, 2010, she was introduced to the House of Lords as a life peer nominated by the Liberal Democrats.
She made her film debut in the 1975 horror film I Don’t Want to Be Born, and she also starred in the 1977 film Black Joy.
Angels, Within These Walls, Crown Court, The Gentle Touch, and Dixon of Dock Green are among her television credits. In the first episode of Bergerac, she played Juniper (1981).
Benjamin was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2001 New Year Honours for services to broadcasting (OBE).
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She was the chairperson of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts at the time (BAFTA).
She has also received a BAFTA Special Lifetime Achievement Award.
She served as a Millennium Commissioner and chaired the Women of the Year Lunch for five years.
She is the president of the Elizabeth R Commonwealth Broadcasting Fund and a member of the National Film and Television School’s governing board.
She was a governor of Dulwich College, where her mother once worked and her son schooled.
As chair of the Windrush Commemoration Committee, she unveiled the National Windrush Monument in Waterloo Station in June 2022, in the presence of the Duke of Cambridge.
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