
Acting
Dec 31, 1930
Clarendon, Jamaica
Mona Hammond
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mavis Chin OBE (born January 1, 1931), known professionally as Mona Hammond is a Jamaican-British actress of Chinese descent and co-founder of the Talawa Theatre Company. Born in Jamaica, Hammond emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1959, where she has lived ever since. Hammond has had a long and distinguished stage career. She is best known for her work on British television, most notably playing Blossom Jackson in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mona Hammond, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Feature Films (23)

A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.
10,000 BC

Play set in the Caribbean showing how life is hard and a struggle, with problems of unemployment and lack of money.
In the Beautiful Caribbean

Influential, cult classic, UK buddy road movie about two friends, one white and one black, who bond over their desire to escape from boredom and unemployment in Thatcher's Britain.
Fords on Water

Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, central England, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Charles has a chance encounter with the flamboyant drag queen cabaret singer Lola and everything changes.
Kinky Boots

Sometimes Busi is a champion boxer, sometimes a rock star. But when he escapes from court, where he is facing a charge of assault, he embarks on an odyssey that brings him before his estranged father
Not Even God Is Wise Enough

When a young poet hires a marketing company to turn his suicide into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture.
Herostratus

Cameron, a 13-year-old boy whose heart is failing. The only possible solution is an experimental transplant operation in which he's given a pig's heart. His father is determined to try anything to keep him alive, but his mother is not so sure.
Pig Heart Boy

Jack Prince, a British renegade, joins a rebellion and becomes one of the most feared pirates in the Caribbean.
Pirate Prince

A story seen from the eyes of a five-year-old boy who, through no fault of his own, comes face to face with disaster.
Bucky

A young teacher returns to the children’s care home where he grew up, and becomes involved with the lives of the troubled teenage children.
Storm Damage

A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.
Pure

George, a black South African, finds it hard to settle down in London after his experiences in South Africa.
Victims of Apartheid
Television & Series (29)

Us Girls is a BBC television sitcom about the culture gap among three generations of West Indian women. Freelance journalist Bev Pinnock was trying to live an independent life, which was being interrupted by her teenage daughter Aisha and her mother -- Grandma. They all shared a house in the first series. In series 2, the grandparents had moved across the road, but were still able to watch Bev and Aisha.
Us Girls

Sharp knives and even sharper tongues! Meet Britain's finest, most short-fused chef, Gareth Balckstock.
Chef

The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.
EastEnders

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
The Bill

Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.






