Gwyneth Strong

Gwyneth Strong born 2 December 1959 is an English actress She is best known for her role in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses as Cassandra the love interest and later wife of Rodney Nicholas Lyndhurst Strongs first acting appearance was in the Royal Court Theatres production Live Like Pigs when she was eleven In 1973 whilst a pupil at Holland Park School she appeared in the horror film Nothing But the Night as Mary Valley and she was a regular in the childrens TV series The Flockton Flyer between 1977 and 1979 as Jan Carter As well as her prominent role in the later series of Only Fools and Horses she has appeared in the Observation segment about Detective Samantha Smith made for the 1990 series of The Krypton Factor the twopart drama serial The Missing Postman as WPC Rachel McMahon the BBC drama Real Women from 1997 to 1998 as Hetty in ITVs Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married 1999 and in BBC drama Casualty in 2013 as Jim Brodies wife Elizabeth Strong featured in the television film Its A Lovely Day Tomorrow 1975 written by Bernard Kops and directed by John Goldschmidt depicting the reallife drama of the Bethnal Green tube disaster in the Second World War She also appeared in the True Confessions twopart episode of the series A Touch of Frost reuniting her on screen with her Only Fools and Horses costar David Jason She appeared on the West End stage in 2008 in the musical Our House in which she played Kath Casey In May 2010 Strong appeared in an episode of Midsomer Murders On 16 September 2016 she joined the cast of the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders in the recurring role of Geraldine Clough Strong married former Footballers Wives and Eldorado star Jesse Birdsall on 15 July 2000 They have one son Oscar born 1988 and one daughter Lottie born 1991 She now lives in Bexhill East Sussex From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia