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1	[[quoteright:203:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/peggyollerenshaw.jpeg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:203:"[[Series/HiDeHi Don't tell Miss Cathcart!]]"]]
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4	->''"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."''
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6	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 nine series of ''Series/HiDeHi''.
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8	Her interest in acting began when she played an angel in a school nativity play at 6 years old. Upon leaving school when she was 16, she began singing in men's clubs and at charity shows.
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10	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 PromotedToOpeningTitles starting in the sixth series after Creator/SimonCadell left.
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12	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.
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14	After the end of ''Hi-de-Hi!'', David Croft gave her starring roles in two more of his sitcoms, these being clumsy maid Ivy Teasdale in ''Series/YouRangMLord'' and flustered booking clerk Ethel Schumann in ''Series/OhDoctorBeeching''.
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16	With her signature spectacles, toothy grin, and breathless enthusiasm, she is still a recognizable face in British Theatre/{{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]]''.
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19	!!Works on TV Tropes she appeared in:
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21	* ''Film/RunForYourWife'' (2012) -- Shopkeeper
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23	* ''Series/TwoUpTwoDown'', 6 episodes[[labelnote:show list]]"What's Yours is Mine", "The Swap", "Paper Tigers", "Pyramidiocy", "I Know What You're Thinking", "Meadowlarks"[[/labelnote]] (1979) -- Flo
24	* ''Series/HiDeHi'', 58 episodes (1980-88) -- Peggy Ollerenshaw
25	* ''Series/{{Jackanory}}'', 5 episodes (1987) -- Storyteller
26	* ''Series/YouRangMLord'', 26 episodes (1988-93) -- Ivy Teasdale
27	* ''WesternAnimation/PennyCrayon'', 12 episodes (1989-90) -- Penny Crayon
28	* ''WesternAnimation/TheWorldOfPeterRabbitAndFriends'', episode "The Tale of Tom Kitten and Jemima Puddle-Duck" (1993) -- Jemima Puddle-Duck
29	* ''Series/OhDoctorBeeching'', 20 episodes (1995-97) -- Ethel Schumann
30	* ''Series/GimmeGimmeGimme'', episode "Singing in the Drain" (2001) -- Heidi Honeycomb
31	* ''WesternAnimation/LittleRobots'', 2 episodes[[labelnote:show list]]"Scary Scary", "Spotty Rules"[[/labelnote]] (2003) -- Noisy
32	* ''Series/{{Benidorm}}'', 1 episode (2010) -- AsHerself
33	* ''Series/{{Doctors}}'', episode "Feud" (2018) -- Mary Dunlop
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