Roberta Taylor

Roberta Taylor is one of Britain's most respected actresses. She became a household name as Irene Raymond in the BBC soap EastEnders and until recently starred as Gina Gold in ITV's The Bill. She is the author of the autobiography Too Many Mothers: A Memoir of an East End Childhood (Atlantic, 2005) and a novel, The Reinvention of Ivy Brown (Atlantic, 2009). She lives in London.