Linda Regan

Career

Regan made her television debut in 1970, in an episode of the ITV sitcom On the Buses. Shortly after, she appeared in the film version of the same name. Sha also had a role in the festive Carry On Christmas special opposite Sid James. This was followed by roles in programmes such as Doctor at Large, Softly, Softly: Task Force, Special Branch and Dixon of Dock Green. She was also the stunt double for Katy Manning's Jo Grant in the Doctor Who episode "Carnival of Monsters" in 1973. In the mid-1970s, Regan appeared in several sex comedy films including Confessions of a Pop Performer (1975), Carry On England (1976) and Adventures of a Private Eye (1977). She also appeared in the films A Private Enterprise (1974), The Hiding Place (1975) and Quadrophenia (1979) and had a main role in the hospital drama General Hospital from 1976 to 1977. Regan appeared in the first episode of the drama series Minder in 1979 starring George Cole and Dennis Waterman and played a Swedish pop star in Bergerac, before having a role in the film The Hit (1984) with John Hurt and Terence Stamp. She followed this with a main role in the holiday camp sitcom Hi-de-Hi! as April, a character she would play from 1984 until the show's end in 1988, appearing in a total of twenty-four episodes.

After appearances in Birds of a Feather, thriller Framed and the crime drama The Knock, Regan starred in five episodes of The Bill before appearing as Harry's mother in all 4 series of children's drama series Harry and Cosh from 1999 to 2003. She continues her career on both stage and screen, including Holby City, Doctors and Run for Your Wife, as well as appearing in several short films and commercials, and writing award-winning crime novels. She had two stepsons from his previous marriage.

She is dyslexic and was not encouraged at school but wrote stories from a young age. Just before her first book was published, in 2005, Regan was kidnapped at knifepoint and forced into a car, later jumping from the vehicle to escape. Soon after, she was diagnosed with cancer, which she believes was caused by her kidnap ordeal; she overcame the disease.

Filmography Film

Television

Writing Behind You!. (2006 or 2007). Creme de La Crime. . . Dead Like Her. (5 February 2007). Creme de La Crime. . . Passion Killers. (2008). Creme de La Crime. . . Brotherhood of Blades. (28 July 2011). Creme de La Crime. . . Street Girls. (28 March 2012). Creme De La Crime. Guts for Garters. (March 2015). Accent Press. SisterHoods. (December 2016). Accent Press. The Terror Within. (December 2019). Accent Press.

Theatre roles Plays (incomplete)

Pantomime