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Cherie M. Lunghi (born 4 April 1952) is an English film, television and theatre actress. She is probably best known for her role as Guinevere in the 1981 film Excalibur, as football manageress Gabriella Benson in the 1990s television series The Manageress and for starring in a series of adverts for Kenco coffee. She also competed in the 2008 series of Strictly Come Dancing. She is the mother of the actress Nathalie Lunghi. Lunghi was born in Nottingham. Her father, Alessandro Lunghi, was Italian and her mother, Gladys Lee, was English. After her father returned to Italy, she was brought up... MORE

Cherie M. Lunghi (born 4 April 1952) is an English film, television and theatre actress. She is probably best known for her role as Guinevere in the 1981 film Excalibur, as football manageress Gabriella Benson in the 1990s television series The Manageress and for starring in a series of adverts for Kenco coffee. She also competed in the 2008 series of Strictly Come Dancing. She is the mother of the actress Nathalie Lunghi. Lunghi was born in Nottingham. Her father, Alessandro Lunghi, was Italian and her mother, Gladys Lee, was English. After her father returned to Italy, she was brought up in west London by her mother and her aunts. She starred in the 1982 television serial Praying Mantis, based on the book (Les Mantes Religieuses) by Hubert Monteilhet, opposite Pinkas Braun, Carmen du Sautoy and Jonathan Pryce. Educated at the Arts Educational School in London, Lunghi played Hedvig in The Wild Duck and Alice in Alice in Wonderland on BBC radio while still at school. After graduating from Homerton College, Cambridge and London's Central School of Speech and Drama, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in the late 1970s, taking leading roles such as Perdita, Cordelia and LESS