Linda Henry

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Linda Henry is a British actress, best known for her role as Yvonne Atkins in the ITV television drama Bad Girls.

Henry was brought up in Peckham, London. She spent some time with the 'Old Vic Youth Theatre', and at sixteen was in the same acting group as Rowan Atkinson at Edinburgh. At seventeen she went to 'Webber Douglas' and set up a production company, Buster, which still exists although she is no longer involved with it.

As well as her role in Bad Girls she is also remembered for her role as Sandra in the film Beautiful Thing, and has appeared in the British television programs The Bill, Birds of a Feather, Cracker, A Touch of and EastEnders, where she played Lorraine Salter, the prostitute mother of the teenage tearaway Mandy (Nicola Stapleton). (Henry and Stapleton both appeared in Bad Girls, although not in the same time, as Henry's character had been killed off by the time Stapleton arrived.)

On 8 September 2006 it was announced Linda would be returning to EastEnders in a different role, this time playing Shirley Wicks, mother to Carly and Deano and ex-wife of Kevin. Shirley arrived in Walford in December 2006.

She is also a diabetic.