Mona Hammond

Acting

Mona Hammond

Born 1931-01-01 · Clarendon, Jamaica

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mavis Chin OBE (born January 1, 1931), known professionally as Mona Hammond is a Jamaican-British actress of Chinese descent and co-founder of the Talawa Theatre Company. Born in Jamaica, Hammond emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1959, where she has lived ever since. Hammond has had a long and distinguished stage career. She is best known for her work on British television, most notably playing Blossom Jackson in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mona Hammond, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

10,000 BC poster
5.5

A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.

10,000 BC

2008

Kinky Boots poster
6.7

Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, central England, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Charles has a chance encounter with the flamboyant drag queen cabaret singer Lola and everything changes.

Kinky Boots

2005

Imagine Me & You poster
7.6

During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. The two women become close friends, and when Rachel learns that Luce is a lesbian, she realizes that despite her happy marriage to Heck, she is falling for Luce. As she questions her sexual orientation, Rachel must decide between her stable relationship with Heck and her exhilarating new romance with Luce.

Imagine Me & You

2006

Manderlay poster
6.9

In 1933, a young woman and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if slavery had never been abolished. Feeling a sense of duty to those behind the heavy gates, she stays to liberate the people and see them through their first harvest. With four of her father's colleagues and a lawyer, she faces the daunting task of resurrecting the place known as Manderlay.

Manderlay

2005

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers poster
6.6

The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings as a comic performer on BBC Radio to his huge success as one of the greatest film comedians of all time; an obsessive artist so dedicated to his work that neglected his loved ones and sacrificed part of his own personality to convincingly create that of his many memorable characters.

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

2004

Storm Damage poster
8.0

A young teacher returns to the children’s care home where he grew up, and becomes involved with the lives of the troubled teenage children.

Storm Damage

2000

Pure poster
6.1

A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.

Pure

2002

Past Caring poster
NR

67 year-old Victor is forced to move into an old people's home but he prefers to grow old disgracefully.

Past Caring

1986

Club Havana poster
NR

After 12 years away, Mrs Jordan’s son arrives in Birmingham from Jamaica. Writer Barry Reckord returns to the theme of an interracial relationship which causes conflict within a Jamaican family. Reconstructed from the surviving unedited studio footage by Simon Coward (Research Manager, Kaleidoscope). An episode of the BBC drama series Second City Firsts.

Club Havana

1975

Who Killed Lamb? poster
9.0

A popular member of the Oxford community is killed and nobody figure out why. A police inspector is called in from Scotland Yard and discovers there may be more to the victim than anyone knows.

Who Killed Lamb?

1974

Burlesque Fairytales poster
5.6

A fairytale thriller film set one night in a 1930's London theatre where all is not what it seems.

Burlesque Fairytales

2010

White Teeth poster
6.1

An adaptation of Zadie Smith's bestseller concerning the lives of two families from as far back as the 1800s and India to late 1990s Willesden.

White Teeth

2002

Herostratus poster
6.4

When a young poet hires a marketing company to turn his suicide into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture.

Herostratus

1967

Fords on Water poster
9.0

Influential, cult classic, UK buddy road movie about two friends, one white and one black, who bond over their desire to escape from boredom and unemployment in Thatcher's Britain.

Fords on Water

1983

In the Beautiful Caribbean poster
NR

Play set in the Caribbean showing how life is hard and a struggle, with problems of unemployment and lack of money.

In the Beautiful Caribbean

1972

Pirate Prince poster
10.0

Jack Prince, a British renegade, joins a rebellion and becomes one of the most feared pirates in the Caribbean.

Pirate Prince

1991

No artwork available
NR

Sometimes Busi is a champion boxer, sometimes a rock star. But when he escapes from court, where he is facing a charge of assault, he embarks on an odyssey that brings him before his estranged father

Not Even God Is Wise Enough

1993

When Love Dies poster
NR

A young man looks back over his unhappy marriage and struggles to come to terms with his wife's suicide.

When Love Dies

1990

No artwork available
NR

Based on J. M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World. Peggy Ford runs her father's rum bar in Mayaro, a quiet fishing village in Trinidad. Nothing much happens in Mayaro until a handsome young stranger appears and insists that he has just murdered his father.

Playboy of the West Indies

1985

Victims of Apartheid poster
NR

George, a black South African, finds it hard to settle down in London after his experiences in South Africa.

Victims of Apartheid

1978

Pig Heart Boy poster
NR

Cameron, a 13-year-old boy whose heart is failing. The only possible solution is an experimental transplant operation in which he's given a pig's heart. His father is determined to try anything to keep him alive, but his mother is not so sure.

Pig Heart Boy

1999

May Contain: Nuts poster
8.0

When the going gets tough, the mums get tougher and will do almost anything to ensure their children get into the best school!

May Contain: Nuts

2009

No artwork available
NR

A story seen from the eyes of a five-year-old boy who, through no fault of his own, comes face to face with disaster.

Bucky

2014