Doña Croll

Doña Croll is a British actress who was born in Jamaica and has worked widely in television and on the stage. She moved to Britain at the age of five and trained in Birmingham. Her screen career has been built largely on soap operas: she played the nurse Adele Beckford in the eighth series of Casualty, Pearl McHugh in Family Affairs from 1999 to 2002, Vera Corrigan in Doctors and Emerald Fox in EastEnders. On stage she became the first black Cleopatra in Britain, in Talawa Theatre Company's 1991 production of Antony and Cleopatra, and she later played Kate Keller in the company's All My Sons in 2013, returning to the part in 2015 to good notices. Her other credits include the film Manderlay (2005), the sitcom Gimme Gimme Gimme and the voice of Leopard in Tinga Tinga Tales.