Cherie Lunghi

Cherie Lunghi

1952-04-04 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK 45 Credits

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 ...

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Patrick

Patrick

2018

as Rosemary Francis

6.7
Acting

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

Acting

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

Excalibur: Behind the Movie

2013

as Self

Acting

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

When Calls the Heart

2013

as Mrs. Thatcher

6.6
Acting

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

Love's Kitchen

2011

as Margaret

5.3
Acting

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)

Acting

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

Versailles: The Dream of a King

2008

as Narrator (English)

6.5
Acting

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

Viper in the Fist

2004

as Miss Chilton

6.5
Acting

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

The Open Doors

2004

as Mrs Sappleton

6.0
Acting

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

The Seasons Alter

2002

as Titania

7.0
Acting

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

Back to the Secret Garden

2000

as Lady Mary Craven

6.2
Acting

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

Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil

1999

as Duchess of Wharfedale

7.3
Acting

Acting Lieutenant Hornblower and his crew are captured by the enemy while escorting a Duchess who has secrets of her own.

Little White Lies

Little White Lies

1998

as Julia

3.5
Acting

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

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn

1998

as Myrna Smithee

3.9
Acting

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

The Canterville Ghost

1996

as Lucille Otis

6.0
Acting

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

Jack & Sarah

1995

as Anna

6.7
Acting

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

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

1994

as Caroline Beaufort Frankenstein

6.4
Acting

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

Acting

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

Silent Cries

1993

as Audrey St John

1.0
Acting

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

The Man Who Lived at the Ritz

1988

as Lily Globuska

4.0
Acting

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

Intrigue

1988

as Adriana

5.5
Acting

A spy is looking for his old colleague who now works for the other side.

To Kill a Priest

To Kill a Priest

1988

as Halina

5.9
Acting

A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.

Coast to Coast

1987

as Susan

6.0
Acting

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

The Lady's Not For Burning

1987

as Jennet Jourdemayne

Acting

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

The Mission

1986

as Carlotta

7.4
Acting

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

Letters to an Unknown Lover

1986

as Helene

3.5
Acting

During World War II, two allied soldiers escape from a Nazi POW camp to Lyons, where they accept the hospitality of mademoiselle Helene.

Harem

Harem

1986

as Usta

4.8
Acting

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

Parker

1985

as Jenny Parker

5.3
Acting

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

Acting
King David

King David

1985

as Michal

5.6
Acting

This is a movie about the life of Israel's king David.

Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing

1984

as Beatrice

6.3
Acting

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

Desert of Lies

1984

as Sue

Acting

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

The Sign of Four

1983

as Mary Morstan

6.4
Acting

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson try to track down the Great Mogul, the second-largest diamond in the world.

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

1982

as Nancy

6.7
Acting

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.

Quell and Co.

1982

as Angela Richardson

5.0
Acting

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

Preview

1982

as Emily

Acting

Four television critics gather in a Wardour Street preview theatre to see a documentary and get the surprise of their lives.

Praying Mantis

Praying Mantis

1982

as Beatrice Manceau

5.0
Acting

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

Excalibur

1981

as Guenevere

7.0
Acting

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

Dead Man's Kit

1980

as Stephanie

Acting

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 ...

Diversion ...

1980

as Erica

4.0
Acting

This short film was the basis for the hit film Fatal Attraction

'Tis Pity She's a Whore

'Tis Pity She's a Whore

1980

as Annabella

5.0
Acting

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

The Misanthrope

1980

as Celimene

Acting

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

Diversion

1979

as Erica

Acting

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

Edward & Mrs. Simpson

1978

as Lady Thelma Furness

10.0
Acting

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

The Comedy of Errors

1978

as Ephesus Townsperson

8.8
Acting

The Royal Shakespeare Company act (and sing and dance!) Shakespeare's play about two sets of identical twins, separated at birth and brought together ...