Françoise Pascal

Françoise Pascal

Pascal in 2012
Born Françoise Pascal
14 October 1949
Vacoas, Mauritius
Height 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
No. of adult films 13
Website
http://francoisepascal.co.uk

Françoise Pascal (born 14 October 1949) is an actress/model who was born to French Mauritian parents; Mauritius was then a colony of the United Kingdom. She is best known for her comedy role in the British sitcom Mind Your Language (1977–1979).

Career

She was born in Mauritius, then a colony of the United Kingdom.

Her first movies were Norman J. Warren's Loving Feeling and Pete Walker's School for Sex in 1969, and she also appeared briefly in an orgy scene in the troubled cult horror film Incense for the Damned the same year, but her breakthrough role was playing Paola in There's a Girl in My Soup (1970) with Peter Sellers. She went on to do the 1971 black comedy Burke & Hare, playing Marie. In 1974, she appeared in another Sellers film, Soft Beds, Hard Battles.

After that appearance, she moved to France where she starred in such films as Et si tu n'en Veux Pas (1974) and Les Raisins de la Mort (1978), directed by Jean Rollin. The producer of Rollin's La Rose de Fer, then gave her the lead in the film but it was not a success. Later she returned to England to appear in Keep It Up Downstairs alongside Diana Dors, Jack Wild and Mary Millington.

Her first television work came in October 1971 with a role in Coronation Street, playing Ray Langton's friend. Then came guest starring roles an episode of Play of the Month for the BBC in "Don Quixote" with Rex Harrison and for ITV's Sunday Night Theatre "Giants & Ogres". She did numerous guest starring appearances in many television comedy series including such as Happy Ever After with Terry Scott and June Whitfield, My Honourable Mrs with Derek Nimmo for the BBC, and the game show Blankety Blank, hosted by Terry Wogan. She co-starred in an episode of the thriller You're on Your Own starring Denis Quilley, for the BBC.

She did three series of Mind Your Language before commencing her stage roles in Happy Birthday (reuniting with Fraser Hines), and starring in a pantomime of Aladdin. Pascal left for the United States in 1982, where she acted in Hollywood with a two-year contract in The Young and the Restless, Gavillan, My Man Adam, Lightning,The White Stallion. She returned to England in 1987.

Pascal has signed on with Salopian Films for a new comedy series called For the Love of Ella. The series also stars Ewen Macintosh, Lucy Drive, Bobby Ball, Alex Reid, Daniel Peacock, Melanie Sykes, Darren Day and Billy Pearce. The script was written by Simon W. Golding (co-producer) and directed by James Farina (co-producer)[1]

Personal life

On 4 December 2010, she joined Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood at Claygate Village for turning on the village Christmas lights[2] and singing a solo of Silent Night.

In December 2012, Pascal took part in the ITV1 programme Storage Hoarders, in which she sorted and sold at auction some of her more valuable possessions which she had kept in storage for months.

References

  1. ↑ "For the Love of Ella (2015)". IMDb. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
  2. ↑ Luke Jacobs, "Ronnie Wood lights up Claygate for Christmas", Surrey News, 7 December 2010

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