Cassandra Trotter

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Cassandra
First appearance	Yuppy Love
Last appearance	Sleepless in Peckham
Statistics
Occupation	bank worker
Spouse	Rodney
Children	Joan
Relatives	Alan (father) Pamela (mother)
Portrayed by	Gwyneth Strong

Cassandra Louise Trotter (nee Parry) (born 16 June 1966)^[1] is a fictional character from the BBC television sit-com Only Fools and Horses. She was portrayed by Gwyneth Strong.

[edit] Biography

The intelligent, slightly-spoiled daughter of the owner of a successful paper merchant, Alan (Denis Lill) and his wife Pam (Wanda Ventham), Cassandra was an ambitious employee of the local bank. She made her first Only Fools and Horses appearance in the episode Yuppy Love, in which she was an attendee of Rodney's adult education class. The two first met when they accidentally mixed up their raincoats in the cloak room, and met again at a disco later that night, at which Rodney's friends Mickey Pearce and Jevon unsuccessfully ask her for a dance. Rodney then bet £10 that he would be successful and, to their horror, she agreed to dance with him. Cassandra also offered to give him a lift home, and they exchanged telephone numbers.

Their relationship blossomed throughout the sixth series and in Sickness and Wealth, Rodney announced that they were engaged; they married in the final episode of series 6: Little Problems, after which they moved into their own flat. Her marriage to Rodney was not without its problems, however, particularly her husband's chagrin at her high ambitions as a bank worker and her own occasional immaturity, which saw the pair undergo a trial separation during the seventh series. They were ultimately reconciled and later episodes saw them attempting to conceive a child; she was also promoted to head of small business investment at the local bank. Rodney announced that Cassandra was pregnant in Heroes and Villains, thought she miscarried in Modern Men. They did later have a daughter, Joan, in Sleepless in Peckham.

[edit] Notes

^ See here. BBC. Retrieved on 30 September 2006.

[edit] Further reading

Clark, Steve (1998). The Only Fools and Horses Story. BBC Books. ISBN 0-5633844-5-X.
Webber, Richard (2003). The Complete A-Z of Only Fools and Horses. Orion. ISBN 0-7528602-5-9.