History Creator / SuPollard

In TheSeventies she began appearing in various musicals and farces, appeared on Creator/{{ITV}} TalentShow ''Opportunity Knocks'' in 1974, and was in a 1978 revival of ''Theatre/{{Godspell}}'' with a young Creator/AnthonyHead, before landing her first sitcom role in 1979 as Flo in ''Series/TwoUpTwoDown''. Only one series aired, but that same year Pollard received the script for the ''Hi-de-Hi!'' pilot. Peggy only had one major scene in the pilot, but Pollard's performance stuck with audiences and with each following series Peggy was focused on more often and was PromotedToOpeningCredits starting in the sixth series after Creator/SimonCadell left.

Su Pollard, born Susan Georgina Pollard (7 November 1949), is a British actress best known for playing Peggy Ollerenshaw, the overenthusiastic chalet maid in all eight series of ''Series/HiDeHi''.

In TheSeventies she began appearing in various musicals and farces, appeared on Creator/{{ITV}} TalentShow ''Opportunity Knocks'' in 1974, and was in a 1978 revival of ''Theatre/{{Godspell}}'' with a young Creator/AnthonyHead, before landing her first sitcom role in 1979 as Flo in ''Two Up, Two Down''. Only one series aired, but that same year Pollard received the script for the ''Hi-de-Hi!'' pilot. Peggy only had one major scene in the pilot, but Pollard's performance stuck with audiences and with each following series Peggy was focused on more often and was PromotedToOpeningCredits starting in the sixth series after Creator/SimonCadell left.

At the height of her ''Hi-de-Hi!'' fame, she picked up her singing career again and made a brief but startling foray into the upper reaches of the pop charts, scoring a no.2 hit in early 1986 with the single "Starting Over"[[note]](denied a Number One only by Music/BillyOcean's "When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going")[[/note]], though it proved to be a OneHitWonder and her album ''Su'' stumbled to a slightly less impressive no.86 at the end of that year.

In TheSeventies she began appearing in various musicals and farces, appeared on Creator/{{ITV}} [[TalentShow talent show]] ''Opportunity Knocks'' in 1974, and was in a 1978 revival of ''Theatre/{{Godspell}}'' with a young Creator/AnthonyHead, before landing her first sitcom role in 1979 as Flo in ''Two Up, Two Down''. Only one series aired, but that same year Pollard received the script for the ''Hi-de-Hi!'' pilot. Peggy only had one major scene in the pilot, but Pollard's performance stuck with audiences and with each following series Peggy was focused on more often and was PromotedToOpeningCredits starting in the sixth series after Creator/SimonCadell left.

At the height of her ''Hi-de-Hi!'' fame she picked up her singing career again and made a brief but startling foray into the upper reaches of the pop charts, scoring a no.2 hit in early 1986 with the single "Starting Over"[[note]](denied a Number One only by Billy Ocean's "When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going")[[/note]], though it proved to be a OneHitWonder and her album ''Su'' stumbled to a slightly less impressive no.86 at the end of that year.

After the end of ''Hi-de-Hi!'', David Croft gave her starring roles in two more of his sitcoms -- clumsy maid Ivy Teasdale in ''Series/YouRangMLord'' and flustered booking clerk Ethel Schumann in ''Series/OhDoctorBeeching''.

With her signature spectacles, toothy grin and breathless enthusiasm, she is still a recognizable face in British [[Theatre/{{Pantomime}} pantomime]] to this day. In 2023 she was one of the participants in the fifth series of Creator/TheBBC's 'group of mismatched celebrities trek a historical pilgrimage route together' series, ''[[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09w7lc0 Pilgrimage]]''.

In TheSeventies she began appearing in various musicals and farces, and appeared on Creator/{{ITV}} [[TalentShow talent show]] ''Opportunity Knocks'' in 1974, before landing her first sitcom role in 1979 as Flo in ''Two Up, Two Down''. Only one series aired, but that same year Pollard received the script for the ''Hi-de-Hi!'' pilot. Peggy only had one major scene in the pilot, but Pollard's performance stuck with audiences and with each following series Peggy was focused on more often and was PromotedToOpeningCredits starting in the sixth series after Creator/SimonCadell left.

Su Pollard, born Susan Georgina Pollard, (7 November 1949), is a British actress best known for playing Peggy Ollerenshaw, the overenthusiastic chalet maid in all eight series of ''Series/HiDeHi''.

In TheSeventies she began appearing in various musicals and farces, before landing her first sitcom role in 1979, as Flo in ''Two Up, Two Down''. Only one series aired, but that same year Pollard received the script for the ''Hi-de-Hi!'' pilot. Peggy only had one major scene in the pilot, but Pollard's performance stuck with audiences and with each following series Peggy was focused on more often and was PromotedToOpeningCredits starting in the sixth series after Creator/SimonCadell left.

After the end of ''Hi-de-Hi!'', David Croft gave her starring roles in two more of his sitcoms - clumsy maid Ivy Teasdale in ''Series/YouRangMLord'' and flustered booking clerk Ethel Schumann in ''Series/OhDoctorBeeching''.

She is still a recognizable face in British pantomime to this day.

In TheSeventies she began appearing in various musicals and farces, before landing her first sitcom role in 1979, as Flo in ''Two Up, Two Down''. Only one series aired, but that same year Pollard received the script for the ''Hi-de-Hi!'' pilot. Peggy only had one major scene in the pilot, but Pollard's performance stuck with audiences and with each following series Peggy was focused on more often, and was PromotedToOpeningCredits starting in the sixth series in 1984.

->''"Someone once said to me 'Never dismiss how you became famous, because if you do you're essentially laughing at other people's memories'. And I've always lived by that rule because so many people have good memories of ''Series/HiDeHi'', I know I do, so I never take it for granted."''

[[caption-width-right:203:"Don't tell Miss Cathcart!"]]

In TheSeventies she began appearing in various musicals and farces, before landing her first sitcom role in 1979, as Flo in ''Two Up, Two Down''. Only one series aired, but that same year Pollard received the script for the ''Series/HiDeHi'' pilot. Peggy only had one major scene in the pilot, but Pollard's performance stuck with audiences and with each following series Peggy was focused on more often, and was PromotedToOpeningCredits starting in the sixth series in 1984.

After the end of ''Series/HiDeHi'', David Croft gave her starring roles in two more of his sitcoms - clumsy maid Ivy Teasdale in ''Series/YouRangMLord'' and flustered booking clerk Ethel Schumann in ''Series/OhDoctorBeeching''.

Susan Georgina Pollard, (7 November 1949), is a British actress best known for playing Peggy Ollerenshaw, the overenthusiastic chalet maid in all eight series of ''Series/HiDeHi''.

* ''Series/HiDeHi'' (1980-88) -- Peggy Ollerenshaw
* ''Series/{{Jackanory}}'' (1987) -- Storyteller
* ''Series/YouRangMLord'' (1988-93) -- Ivy Teasdale
* ''WesternAnimation/PennyCrayon'' (1989-90) -- Penny Crayon
* ''WesternAnimation/TheWorldOfPeterRabbitAndFriends'' (1993) -- Jemima Puddle-Duck
* ''Series/OhDoctorBeeching'' (1995-97) -- Ethel Schumann
* ''Series/GimmeGimmeGimme'' (2001) -- Heidi Honeycomb
* ''WesternAnimation/LittleRobots'' (2003) -- Noisy
* ''Series/{{Benidorm}}'' (2010) -- AsHerself
* ''Series/{{Doctors}}'' (2018) -- Mary Dunlop

[[caption-width-right:203:Don't tell Miss Cathcart!]]