Birthday:
01-01-1931
(94 years)
Birthplace:
Trinidad
Biography
Corinne Skinner-Carter is a Trinidadian actress, based in the United Kingdom. As Corinne Skinner, she began acting professionally in the 1950s. She has worked in black British film and television, and is possibly best known for her role as Audrey Trueman in BBC's EastEnders.
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In the Beautiful Caribbean
Act like Faye, One Son's wife
event1972
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Play set in the Caribbean showing how life is hard and a struggle, with problems of unemployment and lack of money.
The Godsend
Act like Hospital Doctor
event1980 star_border 5.4
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An English family of six takes in a pregnant woman who disappears shortly after giving birth. They raise the baby girl as their own, but over the years the strange deaths of their children make them consider whether the little girl is more than she appears.
Resonant Frequency
Act like Pauline
event2014
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Haunted by threatening voices from a radio, a paranoid schizophrenic descends into psychosis.
Babymother
Act like Edith - Mother
event1998 star_border 3.3
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A single mother determined to make it as a singer puts together an all-girl reggae group named Neeta, Sweeta, & Nastie with her friends. Living in a housing estate with little support, the odds are obviously against her. Emotionally she struggles too as she learns at her mother's death that her actual mother is the woman she had thought was her older sister. With the help of a female agent, the group starts to get some exposure and rises above their setting.
Pressure
Act like Tony's Aunt
event1976 star_border 6
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A British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cultures.
Burning an Illusion
Act like Pat's Mother
event1981 star_border 5.2
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A young black woman in England becomes increasingly frustrated with her life with her lazy, demanding boyfriend, and with the help of friends seeks something better.
Love Thy Neighbour
Act like Black Bride
event1973 star_border 6.2
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Two men who are nextdoor neighbors constantly battle it out over seemingly trivial offenses. Their wives, on the other hand, are best of friends. The two couples attempt to win a 'love-thy-neighbor' competition by lying...
Dreaming Rivers
Act like Miss T.
event1989
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A bittersweet and nostalgic short drama illustrating the spirit of modern families touched by the experience of migration. Miss T., from the Caribbean, lives alone in her one-room apartment, her children and husband having left her to pursue new dreams. When she dies her family and friends gather at her wake. The tapestry of words that interweave the drama convey the fragments of a life lived, but only partly remembered.
Flame in the Streets
Act like Mrs. Jackson
event1961 star_border 5.8
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Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions manifest themselves at home, work and on the streets during Bonfire Night in the burgeoning West Indian community of early 1960s Britain. Trades union leader (Mills) fights for the rights of a black worker but struggles with the news that his own daughter is planning to marry a West Indian, much against his own logic and the prejudice of his wife.
The Final Frame
Act like Miss Gibson
event1990
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When the notorious rock star, East, is murdered on stage at an Animal Rights benefit gig, young filmmaker Hadi captures vital evidence on videotape. He finds he has possession of the most sought-after footage in the TV industry - and the most lethal.
Man About the House
Act like Housewife
event1974 star_border 5.1
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An unscrupulous property developer wants to flatten the street to make way for new buildings. Householder George Roper is happy to take the offered money and run but his wife Mildred and their lodgers join with other residents to take a stand and keep things as they are.
Hidden Fears
Act like Mrs. Katz
event1993
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A widowed woman is being stalked by her husband's murderers.
This Little Life
Act like Midwife
event2003
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A powerful one-off drama written by Rosemary Kay , winner of the BBC's Dennis Potter award for new screenwriting. Sadie and Richie MacGregor are thrown into the terrifying world of neo-natal intensive care when their son Luke is born prematurely. Willed on by his desperate parents, he gradually grows in strength - but as Sadie develops a unique bond with her son, her relationship with Richie begins to suffer.
Elphida
Act like Marcia
event1987
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Elphida is 30. She has been married for 13 years and has 3 children. She plans to restart her education when her youngest child goes to nursery. Then the nursery is closed. On top of this, her parents are contemplating divorce and want her to act as a go between.
Gholam
Act like Mrs. Green
event2017 star_border 4.6
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An Iranian expat living in London has a shady past and an enigmatic present.
Sitting in Limbo
Act like Lucille
event2020 star_border 7.4
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Anthony Bryan and his personal struggle to be accepted as a British Citizen during the Windrush immigration scandal.
Motherland
Act like Meg's Mum (1 ep.)
event2017 star_border 7
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Sitcom about navigating the trials and traumas of middle-class motherhood, looking at the competitive and unromantic side of parenting.
The Bill
Act like Armfields' Neighbour (1 ep.)
event1984 star_border 6.7
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The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
Casualty
Act like June Jackson (1 ep.)
event1986 star_border 6
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Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
Lovejoy
Act like Alice Taylor (2 ep.)
event1986 star_border 7.3
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The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.
South Of The Border
Act like Rose Parker (9 ep.)
event1988
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Drama concerning a pair of female private detectives, Pearl Parker (Buki Armstrong) and Finn Gallagher (Rosie Rowell) operating within the bustling multicultural communities of South London. The series was renowned for affording opportunities to new talent, women and people of colour both in front of and behind the cameras.
Snatches: Moments from Women's Lives
Act like Jacqueline (1 ep.)
event2018 star_border 9
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Monologues inspired by women who have spoken out, challenged the status quo or made a stand – often at great personal cost.
The Paradise Club
Act like Betty McGhee (1 ep.)
event1989 star_border 5.8
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The Paradise Club is a BBC television drama starring Don Henderson and Leslie Grantham as Frank & Danny Kane. Two series were produced and were broadcast between 1989 and 1990.
The show focuses upon two brothers, Frank & Danny Kane. Their mother, Ma Kane, is the matriarch of a criminal gang in South London, helped by her son Danny. Frank has become a priest but leaves the church; he inherits The Paradise Club on the death of their mother and returns to London to try and steer Danny away from crime.
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