Pauline Clothilde Henriques OBE JP, known to all as Paul, was a Jamaican-born English actress.
10 Facts About Pauline Henriques
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Pauline Henriques was the first black female Justice of the Peace, and was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1969.
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Pauline Henriques worked extensively with unmarried mothers and worked as a counsellor with, and later Secretary to, the Brook Counselling and Advisory Clinic.
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Pauline Henriques was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to Cyril Charles Henriques, a wealthy merchant, and Edith Emily Delfosse.
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Pauline Henriques was a regular presenter on Caribbean Voices for the BBC's West Indian Service, from the show's inception in 1943.
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Pauline Henriques broke more than one glass ceiling in her time, the first of which was as the first Black female actress on British TV in 1946.
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Pauline Henriques was cast as Ella in The Heart Within.
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Pauline Henriques acted in the BBC's A Man from the Sun, a television drama documentary that for the first time portrayed the lives of Caribbean settlers in post-war Britain.
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Pauline Henriques was interviewed at length for the British Library's National Sound Archive.
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For Channel 4's Faces of the Family show in 1994, Pauline Henriques appeared as the matriarch of an extended family.