Liza Goddard
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Liza Goddard (born 20 January 1950, in Smethwick, West Midlands, England) is a television and stage actress best known for her work in the 1970s and 1980s.
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[edit] Career
The daughter of British producer David Goddard, who moved the family to Australia when Liza was 15. Goddard made an early television appearance on Skippy the Bush Kangaroo.
After returning to the UK as an adult, she appeared as Victoria in Take Three Girls (1969), and then its sequel Take Three Women (1982). Her breakthrough was as April in The Brothers.
As series of comedy roles in sitcoms followed, with parts in Pig in the Middle (1980), played a space pirate in the 1983 Doctor Who story Terminus, and appeared in Roll Over Beethoven (1985).
Goddard appeared in Woof!, a Children's ITV programme first aired in 1988. This long-running series told the adventures of a schoolboy who turned into a dog at any given time; his efforts to conceal his secret from his parents were aided by his teacher Mrs Jessop, played by Goddard. Her husband, producer and director David Cobham, created this series and showcased Goddard's talents to a whole new generation of fans.
For many years, she was also the female team leader on long-running quiz/panel show Give Us A Clue, replacing another actress Una Stubbs in the role.
She appeared as Laurel Manasotti, who had an affair with Jimmy Mulville's character Donald, in the ITV sitcom That's Love.
She later had a recurring role as Philippa Vale in Bergerac. Her most recent television role was alongside Dawn French and Catherine Tate in Wild West.
[edit] Personal life
- She was first married to former Doctor Who actor Colin Baker (who played the Sixth Doctor), and then to 1970s musician Alvin Stardust. She is now married to producer and director David Cobham, of Tarka the Otter fame.
- She lives in Norfolk, with a home full of rescue animals. She does work for the RSPCA amongst other charities[1]
- She suffered and recovered from Breast Cancer in 1997 [2]
