Carla Mendonça

Carla Mendonça (born 1964) is an English actress. She is known for playing Orla Crawshaw in Coronation Street, Sophie Johnson in the CITV children's sitcom My Parents Are Aliens (2001–2006) and Mrs. Fitzgerald in the CBBC series So Awkward (2015–2018). She has a degree in Theatre Studies and Dramatic Art from the University of Warwick.

Personal life Mendonça was born in Coventry, West Midlands. Her parents were ballet dancers, her mother from England and her father from Portugal. Her brother, Jorge, was a colonel in the British Army, who served with the First Battalion in the Queen's Lancashire Regiment.

Mendonça was in the band The Maisonettes.

Filmography Film YearTitleCharacterStudioNotes1998 Hilary and Jackie Spanish Maid Channel 4 FilmsIntermedia Films 2006 Jam Mum Burnett EntertainmentThanksgiving Films 2013 Common People Mrs. Owen Common People ProductionsPark Bench Pictures

Television YearTitleCharacterChannelNotes1984 The Young Ones Woman at Trial BBC Two 1 episode

Theatre Her theatre roles include: Theatre/CompanyProductionRoleNotesGlobe TheatreDaisy Pulls It OffTrixie MartinOxford Stage CompanyMeasure for MeasureIsabellaTwelfth NightViolaKing LearReganAs You Like ItCeliaHampstead TheatreIn the ClubNicola Derby PlayhouseThe Killing of Sister GeorgeMercy CroftRoyal Lyceum TheatreThe Curse of the Starving ClassEllaRoyal Shakespeare CompanyThe Mouse and His ChildElephantRoyal Exchange TheatreToo Clever By HalfMadame TourousinaTobacco Factory Theatre101 DalmatiansCruella De Vil Nottingham PlayhouseNoises OffDotty OtleyThe Amazing Tour CompanyThe Amazing Tour Is Not On FireScary Woman in the SkyLeeds PlayhouseThe Lion, The Witch and The WardrobeThe White Witch