Essex Celebrity Women

Date of Birth 18 June 1961

Billericay, Essex England
She was Born Genevieve Alison-Jane Moyet. The former singer of the synthesizer duo Yazoo (known as Yaz in the USA), Moyet embarked on a solo career in 1983; after critics had consistently praised her outstanding natural blues voice.

Her debut Alf was a superb recording produced and co-written by Tony Swain and Steve Jolley. "Love Resurrection" (number 10), "All Cried Out" (number 8) and "Invisible" (number 21) were all UK hits in 1984, while the album made number 1 and took root in the charts for nearly two years.

Born

29 July 1966 in Chigwell, Essex, England

A former British Olympic champion in the 400 m hurdles. ...
Sally Gunnell OBE has a special place in the nation’s hearts as one of Britain’s most popular female sportspeople. She is the only woman ever to hold four major track titles concurrently – Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth Games.

For a number of years Sally has been motivating audiences from a wide range of organisations at meetings, seminars and conferences around the globe. She works closely with clients tailoring her speeches to their individual needs and uses teamwork, visualisation and goal setting to help impart key messages she has recently signed a long-term agreement with Crown Sports, the largest developing group of health and fitness clubs in the UK, to produce a series of publications focusing on the subject of well-being and to consult to the group on their future strategy.

 In addition to this, Sally continues to fulfil her role as figurehead for the British Heart Foundation where she acts as both a consultant and ambassador for the well-respected and ever developing organisation. Sally remains as popular in retirement as she was on the track - a true star, who has not let her success change either her values or down to earth approach. The popular athlete is highly sought-after by organisations eager to benefit from her motivational message gained through her experience as one of the World's top sportswomen.

thirteen and a half years with a range of memorably entertaining pieces together with a series of more serious interviews that included Mrs Thatcher, Dame Rebecca West, George Best, Jill Bennett and Sacheverill Sitwell.

Her Sunday Times pieces and many others have been published in several volumes. Her pieces were regularly syndicated abroad in South Africa and Australasia. In 1982 she left The Sunday Times and joined The Mail on Sunday for whom she wrote a bi-monthly column until 1987.

Her first book, how to stay married, was written in 1969. Since then she has written or helped to compile 39 other books. She has appeared on radio and television, including what’s My Line which regularly achieved 14 million viewers. In 1970 she also wrote a TV series entitled it’s awfully bad For Your Eyes Darling, in which Joanna Lumley played a starring role. Her latest novel Wicked! About an independent boarding school forming a partnership with a comprehensive school, was published in May, 2006. It was number one on the bestseller list for five weeks and had sold more than 140,000 hardback copies and nearly 100,000 trade paperbacks by Christmas.

She is now working on a novel about a Grandmother who escapes from her demanding family and rescues a racehorse. To aid her research, she in now the proud owner of a twelfth share in a race horse trained by Nicky Henderson, called Monty’s Salvo.

Born in Ilford, Essex, England on October 20th 1940,

She was born Kathleen O’Rourke, Kathy became one of the biggest stars of the mid-sixties, especially after her triumphant billing in 1965's Royal Command Variety Performance and two series of her own BBC TV show 'Kathy Kirby Sings' . She toured and appeared on subsequent Royal Variety Shows, starred at the London Palladium and represented Britain in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest with the song 'I belong' which came second.

A golden future for Kathy as a film star was predicted, but got no further than talk before Ambrose died in 1971, and the beginning of his protégée’s 'wilderness years'.

 In 1967 Kathy left Decca Records and signed with EMI's Columbia label and between then and 1973, she recorded 12 singles and
an album, 'My thanks to you'. Although none of them were hits, they proved that she was still in great voice and an enduring talent,
 although unfortunately personal problems had begun to dog the life of Kathy, including the death of Ambrose and later in the
seventies, bankruptcy.

In recent years, she has lived quietly at her home in Kensington, West London. Her absence from the recording scene is a
major source of regret, for Kathy possessed one of the finest female singing voices on the British side of the Atlantic.

Date of Birth 28 December 1934, Ilford, Essex, England, UK

Born as Margaret Natalie Smith
One of the world's most famous and distinguished actress, Dame Maggie Smith, born as Margaret Natalie Smith, was born on the 29th of December in 1934 in Essex. Her father was a teacher at Oxford University and her mother worked as a secretary. Smith has been married twice; first with actor Robert Stephens and then with playwright Beverley Cross. Her marriage with Stephens ended in 1974 on divorce and the marriage between her and Cross was finished in 1999, when he died. With Stephens Smith has two sons, Chris and Toby, who are also actors.

Maggie Smith's career began at the Oxford Playhouse in the 50s. She made her film debut in 1956 as one of the party guests in a movie called Child in the House (1956).

After that she has been acting with the most prominent actors and actresses in the world in over sixty films and TV-series, which include Othello (1965) with Laurence Olivier, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), California Suite (1978) with Michael Caine and Jane Fonda, A Room with a View (1985), Richard III (1995) with Ian McKellen and Jim Broadbent, Franco Zeffirelli's Tea with Mussolini (1999) with Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Cher and Gosford Park (2001) with Kristin Scott Thomas and Clive Owen, directed by Robert Altman. Maggie Smith has also been nominated for an Oscar six times and won twice, for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and California Suite (1978).

Lately Maggie Smith has appeared in very popular Harry Potter movie series as formidable Professor McGonagall. She has also been in the headlines presently because of her breast cancer, but now she has been reported to be recovering from that and soon continuing to film last two Harry Potters and Julian Fellowes' film From Time to Time (2009) with Timothy Spall, Anne Reid and Hugh Bonneville.

hits, they proved that she was still in great voice and an enduring talent, although unfortunately personal problems had begun to dog the life of Kathy, including the death of Ambrose and later in the seventies, bankruptcy.

In recent years, she has lived quietly at her home in Kensington, West London. Her absence from the recording scene is a major source of regret, for Kathy possessed one of the finest female singing voices on the British side of the Atlantic.

(1993) and The Brimstone Wedding (1995). The Blood Doctor (2002) is a psychological novel based on the diaries of Lord Henry of Nanther, Queen Victoria's physician. Her two books of collected short stories were published in 1987 and 2008. Many of her novels and short stories have been successfully adapted for television. Ruth Rendell was awarded a CBE in 1996. A Life Peerage was conferred on her in 1997 as Baroness Rendell of Babergh. Her latest novel is Portobello (2008).