Angela Bruce

Angela Bruce was born in Leeds to an English mother and Trinidadian father. Despite an inauspicious start in life after her mother was forced to place her in a children's home, where the matron considered her "too coloured" to be adopted, her life changed dramatically at the age of three, when she chose the family she wanted to adopt her. Bruce grew up as the only black child in a tiny mining village in England's northeast and enjoyed an idyllic rough-and-tumble childhood climbing trees and riding horses. Raised by her adoptive family to be happy in her own skin, she came of age after a Cinderella-like break into show business when the musical Hair came to Newcastle and she was plucked from the audience to dance on stage and later audition for the show, joining the cast ten days later to tour the UK for two years. Soon after that, she joined the original cast of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). Since, then, in an acting career spanning five decades, she has played a myriad of ch