NERYS HUGHES

Born in Rhyl, North Wales, Nerys is one of Britain's most popular actresses. She is best known for the role of Sandra in the enormously successful BBC TV series The Liver Birds which ran for over eleven years, and also for the the title role in The District Nurse, a series which was written for her, remained high in the ratings for five years and won Nerys the coveted Variety Club Television Actress of the Year Award. The Liver Birds recently made a successful comeback, with Nerys again playing the role of Sandra. Other TV and film credits include Gallowglass, Bathing Elizabeth, Molly, With a Little Help, Survival of the Fittest and the feature film Second Best starring William Hurt.

She has also starred in many plays and series on television and radio, both in drama and situation comedy, including How Green Was My Valley, Third Time Lucky, Jackanory, Alphabet Zoo and Diary of a Young Man (directed by Ken Loach), Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood, Laurie Lee's Cider With Rosie and Making Love to Marilyn Monroe.

In the theatre she has appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the English Stage Company at the Royal Court and the Theatre of Comedy, several summer seasons and pantomimes and many repertory and West End appearances. Recently, Nerys appeared in Under Milk Wood at the Royal National Theatre.

Nerys has also presented TV programmes such as Bazaar and Capital Woman, and she enjoys doing poetry readings and concerts - she has done several with the London Mozart Players - and writes regular columns for Wales on Sunday.

In spite of this incredibly busy schedule, Nerys has also found the time to be an enthusiastic supporter of our Woolwich Young Radio Playwrights' Competition. She has been a competition judge on several occasions, as well as starring in plays by a number of the winning young writers over the years: Suburban Castles, a monologue by James Pollock, Saddam's Arms by Simon Beaufoy (the screenwriter of the hit movie The Full Monty), and in both the radio version of Still Stationery by Andy Smith (which was shortlisted at Prix Italia in 1996) and also in the stage version of the same play in the Cottesloe Theatre at the Royal National. She also starred in Much Like Yourself by Anna Hashmi which won an award at the International Radio Festival of New York.

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