Nerys Hughes's parents were Myfi and Ted Kerfoot-Hughes, who raised her as a Methodist and sent her to Howell's School in Denbigh, where she took an interest in drama.
11 Facts About Nerys Hughes
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Nerys Hughes studied drama at Rose Bruford College and in 1960 joined the Radio Drama Company by winning the Carleton Hobbs Bursary.
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Nerys Hughes is best known for the role of Sandra Hutchinson in the enormously successful BBC TV series The Liver Birds which ran from 1969 to 1978 with a brief revival in 1996.
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Nerys Hughes later played the eponymous lead in The District Nurse, a series which was written for her, and won the Variety Club Television Actress of the Year Award.
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Nerys Hughes made brief appearances in the films A Severed Head and Take a Girl Like You, both in 1970.
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Nerys Hughes was one of the explorers who voyaged to the planet Arg in the fourth episode of the second series of the 'science-fiction' quiz The Adventure Game in 1981, where she was evaporated in the Vortex game.
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Nerys Hughes guest-starred in the metaphorical and esoteric Doctor Who story Kinda as the scientist Todd, alongside actors Peter Davison, Richard Todd and Simon Rouse.
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Nerys Hughes appeared in the Torchwood episode "Something Borrowed" as Brenda Williams, and an alien.
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Nerys Hughes is known for her role as Glenda in The Queen's Nose.
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Nerys Hughes later returned to Doctor Who through Big Finish Productions audio dramas as the Fourth Doctor's companion Margaret Hopwood.
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Nerys Hughes is married to television cameraman Patrick Turley and has a son and a daughter.