Rula Lenska - Film, TV and Radio

Film, TV and Radio

She has appeared in television series such as Special Branch, Minder, Boon, The Detectives, Footballers' Wives, To the Manor Born, One Foot in the Grave, Casualty, Space: 1999, Return of the Saint, Robin Of Sherwood, the Doctor Who serial Resurrection of the Daleks- (in late 1970, she got down to the final 5 actresses short-listed for the part of companion Jo Grant), Doctors and EastEnders, in which she played Frank Butcher's girlfriend, Krystal, in a 2002 Costa del Sol special. She played Mrs. Peacock in series 2 of Cluedo.

In 1976, she starred opposite Alan Price in Alfie Darling, appearing naked in several scenes. She also starred with John Inman in the short-lived (six episodes were screened) 1981 series Take a Letter, Mr. Jones, with Lenska as an executive and Inman as her secretary. In 2003, she starred in the black comedy Paradise Grove alongside Ron Moody. She played Lintilla and her clones in the second Radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and can also be heard in the third, fourth and fifth radio series which debuted on BBC Radio 4 in May 2005. She has presented travel programmes for the BBC and has recorded many audiobooks. In the 2005 film Gypo, which was the first UK feature film to be made under Dogme rules, she played a Roma refugee from the Czech Republic living on a caravan site in Margate. She starred in Garvey in the independent British film Jack Says, opposite her one-time EastEnders co-star Mike Reid, which was released on DVD on 22 September 2008. She lent her voice to the upcoming animation film Agent Crush. In 2009, Lenska joined the cast of Coronation Street as new character Claudia Colby, an old friend of Audrey Roberts. In May 2011, Lenska quit the role in order to join the Calendar Girls tour in August 2011.