Biography
Cherie Lunghi (born 4 April 1952) is an English film, television and theatre actress. She is probably best known for her role as Guinevere in the 1981 film Excalibur, as football manageress Gabriella Benson in the 1990s television series The Manageress and for starring in a series of adverts for Kenco coffee. She also competed in the 2008 series of Strictly Come Dancing. She is the mother of the actress Nathalie Lunghi. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cherie Lunghi, licensed under ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Patrick
2018
as Rosemary Francis
A woman's chaotic life becomes more complicated when she inherits her grandmother's dog.
Hidden Histories: WW1's Forgotten Photographs
2014
as Herself - Narrator
Documentary telling the extraordinary untold story of soldiers' photography in the First World War. The British and German soldiers marched off to war...
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
2013
as Self
This retrospective documentary looks back on the making of director John Boorman's 1981 movie, Excalibur. Self-described as the toughest film he ever ...
When Calls the Heart
2013
as Mrs. Thatcher
Elizabeth Thatcher, a cultured young teacher in 1910, fears leaving her comfortable world in the city. But when she accepts a teaching position in a f...
Love's Kitchen
2011
as Margaret
Rob Haley, an up-and-coming chef and restaurateur in London, is grief-stricken when he loses his wife. With encouragement from his infamous friend and...
Forever Young: How Rock 'n' Roll Grew Up
2010
as Narrator (voice)
Despite the mantra of 'live fast, die young', Britain's first rock 'n' roll generations are now enjoying old age. What was once about youth and taking...
Versailles: The Dream of a King
2008
as Narrator (English)
Docudrama about the life of Louis XIV nicknamed "the Sun King", the King of France who ran a glamorous court, expanded the borders of France, loved wo...
Viper in the Fist
2004
as Miss Chilton
1920. Jean Rezeau and his elder brother were living happily in their family estate in Brittany, until the death of their grandmother. The return of th...
The Open Doors
2004
as Mrs Sappleton
The Open Doors is a short British film based on a short story 'The Open Window' by Saki (H. H. Munro) starring Michael Sheen, Charlotte Ritchie and Ch...
The Seasons Alter
2002
as Titania
The world is burning up, icecaps melt, floods drown the landscape and people starve. These images are from a Shakespearean speech that dates from the ...
Back to the Secret Garden
2000
as Lady Mary Craven
A youngster living in a stately home discovers the magical garden Mary, Colin & Dickon stumbled across years before - but faces a battle with the hous...
Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil
1999
as Duchess of Wharfedale
Acting Lieutenant Hornblower and his crew are captured by the enemy while escorting a Duchess who has secrets of her own.
Little White Lies
1998
as Julia
The tragic, unexpected death of David in a car-crash causes the cozy, safe life of gardener Beth to be thrown into complete chaos. In the aftermath, a...
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn
1998
as Myrna Smithee
Filmmaker Alan Smithee finds himself the unwilling puppet of a potentially bad big budget action film, for which he proceeds to steal the reels, and l...
The Canterville Ghost
1996
as Lucille Otis
When a teenaged girl moves to England, with her brothers and parents into the ancient Canterville Hall, she's not at all happy. Especially as there's ...
Jack & Sarah
1995
as Anna
Jack always lands on his feet. He lands on his feet when he marries the beautiful Sarah. He lands on his feet when he buys a luxurious new home. Howev...
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
as Caroline Beaufort Frankenstein
Victor Frankenstein is a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead ...
A Question of Guilt
1993
as Helen West
The brutal murder of a woman appears to be an open and shut case. But while there is a suspect and a signed confession, the lack of a credible motive ...
Silent Cries
1993
as Audrey St John
In 1942, the Japanese occupied the island of Singapore. During the take-over, not only military soldiers were taken prisoner, but also innocent civili...
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
1988
as Lily Globuska
In this drama, an American art student is trapped amidst the political turmoil of war-torn Europe while visiting Paris and staying at the fabulous Rit...
Intrigue
1988
as Adriana
A spy is looking for his old colleague who now works for the other side.
To Kill a Priest
1988
as Halina
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.
Coast to Coast
1987
as Susan
Two guys meet, one American, a deserter from the US army, one Brit, and they are drawn together by their mutual love of Soul music. Neither being gain...
The Lady's Not For Burning
1987
as Jennet Jourdemayne
A war and world weary soldier tries to talk a witch-hunting cleric into hanging him; he is shaken from his quest for death when the beautiful Jennet i...
The Mission
1986
as Carlotta
When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter i...
Letters to an Unknown Lover
1986
as Helene
During World War II, two allied soldiers escape from a Nazi POW camp to Lyons, where they accept the hospitality of mademoiselle Helene.
Harem
1986
as Usta
A young British woman is kidnapped by an Arabian sheikh and held captive in his harem. At first she frantically tries to escape, but as they slowly ge...
Parker
1985
as Jenny Parker
An Aussie businessman is trying to find out why and by whom he was kidnapped and then later released with no explanation.
Vicious Circle
1985
as Estelle
King David
1985
as Michal
This is a movie about the life of Israel's king David.
Much Ado About Nothing
1984
as Beatrice
Benedick and Beatrice fight their merry war of words. But when Beatrice's friend, Hero, is humiliatingly jilted by Benedick's best friend, Claudio, Be...
Desert of Lies
1984
as Sue
The fortunes of two expeditions a century and a half apart become mysteriously linked in the same desolate stretch of Kalahari Desert. In 1848 the Bro...
The Sign of Four
1983
as Mary Morstan
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson try to track down the Great Mogul, the second-largest diamond in the world.
Oliver Twist
1982
as Nancy
The classic Dickens tale of an orphan boy who escapes the horrors of the orphanage only to be taken in by a band of thieves and pickpockets.
Quell and Co.
1982
as Angela Richardson
A malevolent land mogul has threatened an honest group of Texas homesteaders, and when the innocent suffer justice must be served in director William ...
Preview
1982
as Emily
Four television critics gather in a Wardour Street preview theatre to see a documentary and get the surprise of their lives.
Praying Mantis
1982
as Beatrice Manceau
A middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised as a "Crime Passionel", but discover too late that on...
Excalibur
1981
as Guenevere
A surreal adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur" chronicling Arthur Pendragon's conception, his rise to the throne, the search by his K...
Dead Man's Kit
1980
as Stephanie
After shore-leave in Lisbon for the crew of HMS Diana, Master-at-Arms 'Toby' Toberman makes an official complaint to the ship's Captain about the beha...
Diversion ...
1980
as Erica
This short film was the basis for the hit film Fatal Attraction
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
1980
as Annabella
Lord Sorenzo marries the beautiful young Annabella, but unbeknownst to him, she is pregnant as a result of an incestuous relationship with her brother...
The Misanthrope
1980
as Celimene
One man's defiant stand against the hypocrisy of polite society is the theme of Molière's comic masterpiece. Ian Holm stars in this film set in Paris...
Diversion
1979
as Erica
Gary is a happily married man, devoted to his wife, their kid and the family dog. A weekend without the presence of his wife presents to him a chance ...
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
1978
as Lady Thelma Furness
While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the p...
The Comedy of Errors
1978
as Ephesus Townsperson
The Royal Shakespeare Company act (and sing and dance!) Shakespeare's play about two sets of identical twins, separated at birth and brought together ...