Roberta Taylor

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Roberta Taylor

Born	1948 London, England
Years active	1980-present

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Roberta Taylor (born 1948 in London), is an English actress. She is best known for the roles of Irene Raymond in EastEnders, and Inspector Gina Gold in The Bill.

Before becoming a household name thanks to her appearances on television, she worked in the theatre and appeared at the Glasgow Citizens Theatre from 1980 to 1992. During that period, she played La Duchesse de Guermantes in a stage adaptation of Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past) entitled A Waste of Time, in which Rupert Everett and Gary Oldman were also in the cast. She was also seen in Noel Coward's Design for Living, Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband. She was the Princess Kosmonopolis in Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth in 1992, and in 1995 played the Nurse in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at the Lyric Hammersmith.

She has also appeared in episodes of the television series Doctors, Holby City, Silent Witness, Inspector Morse. She has appeared as a guest on The Paul O'Grady Show and in the films The Witches (1990), Tom & Viv (1994), and The Turnaround (1994).

In 2005, she played Mrs Pardiggles in the BBC's drama serial adaptation of Charles Dickens' Bleak House.

She has been married to the actor Peter Guinness since September 1996, he has also appeared in a few episodes of The Bill, to which she is a regular cast member in, Peter actually played her lover, ironic as he's also her real-life lover and husband.

She has been arachnophobic since the age of 12.^{[citation needed]}

A strong rumour, circulating online in the spring of 2007, has it that the new play Mrs Radcliffe is to be offered to Ms Taylor.^{[citation needed]}

It was revealed in February 2008 that Roberta had quit her role as Insp Gold in The Bill because she felt that her character was underused.^{[citation needed]}