Early Life
Benjamin was born in Pointe-à-Pierre, Trinidad, and emigrated to the UK in 1960. Having left Rosemead Preparatory School to work in a bank, she studied for A-levels at night school. After a spell as a stage actress in West End musicals, she began presenting children's television programmes in 1976.
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