Veteran UK actor Roberta Taylor, best known for The Bill and EastEnders, has died, aged 76.
She suffered from lung disease emphysema and died on 6 July after a fall two months ago led to an infection. Her condition subsequently worsened with a bout of pneumonia.
Following stage work, Taylor started playing Irene Raymond on EastEnders in 1997, as the matriarch of the Hills family until 2000.
“Irene was a complicated lady. I never knew what was going to happen next, but that’s what life is like. We worked hard at our characters. People thought we were comical but actually there was a lot of sarcasm,” she once said.
She then went on to work on The Bill, from 2002-08, as the hard-drinking, no-nonsense Inspector Gina Gold.
Taylor also appeared on Casualty, Doctors, Sharman, Holby City, Silent Witness, and Inspector Morse, plus The Witches in 1990 and Tom & Viv in 1994.
Her last major television series was Shakespeare & Hathaway in 2022.
Source: The Independent.
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