Debby Bishop (also credited as Debbie Bishop) is a British actress. She appeared in the second series of the television crime drama '' Widows 2'', having taken over the part of Bella O'Reilly from

Eva Mottley Eva Henderson Mottley (24 October 1953 – 14 February 1985) was a Barbadian-born British actress. She played Bella O'Reilly in the television drama '' Widows'', and Corinne Tulser, wife of Denzil Tulser in '' Only Fools and Horses''. Ear ...

who died before production began. Bishop was born in

Lewisham Lewisham () is an area of southeast London, England, south of Charing Cross. It is the principal area of the London Borough of Lewisham, and was within the historic county of Kent until 1889. It is identified in the London Plan as one o ...

, in south east London. She began her professional acting career at the former Albany Empire Theatre in Deptford, South London in 1978 where she first appeared on stage in a number of shows produced by "The Combination" which was the resident theatre company there. In 1980 she was featured in a BBC Documentary "Fringe Benefits" where she appeared as a singer alongside a number of other Fringe Theatre groups, such as The Sadista Sisters. She appeared in the films ''

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'' (1982), ''

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'' (1982), '' Party Party'' (1983), '' Scrubbers'' (1983), ''

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'' (1983), '' Blue Money'' (1984) and ''

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'' (1986), in which she had a starring role as Phoebe. She was also featured in the

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production of '' Blues in the Night''. Debby Bishop's additional theatre credits include '' Reggae Britannia'' and ''Restoration'' at the

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in London, ''

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'' at the

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and the

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, Sheffield, and '' 1,000 Clowns'' at the Watford Palace. Additional TV credits include ''

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'', and Pam in '' Blue Money'' and the soap ''

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'', the last television or film role in which Bishop was cast. Her last theatre performance was the Cabaret in the House show with

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at Lauderdale House theatre in London, March 2004. Debby Bishop has supported charitable community theatre. She has been a patron of Montage Theatre Arts in London since 2005 with fellow actress

Sylvestra Le Touzel Sylvestra Le Touzel (born 1958) is a British television, film and stage actor. She was born and raised in Kensington, London, to a prominent family from Saint Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands. She attended school in East Acton. Television Begi ...

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