Margi Clarke Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Margi Clarke (born 1954) is a British actress (her name is pronounced with a hard 'g'). She was born in Liverpool and raised in Kirkby (originally a suburb of Liverpool), and is known for her Scouse accent and platinum-blonde hair. Her official launch into showbusiness came in 1978, as a presenter on the late-night entertainment magazine show, What's On, which was just shown in the ITV Granada region. She was known then simply as Margox. In 1983 Clarke appeared as 'Fran' in episodes 54 and 66 of the Liverpool-set Channel 4 soap opera Brookside, credited as Margi MacGregor. Her brother... MORE

Margi Clarke (born 1954) is a British actress (her name is pronounced with a hard 'g'). She was born in Liverpool and raised in Kirkby (originally a suburb of Liverpool), and is known for her Scouse accent and platinum-blonde hair. Her official launch into showbusiness came in 1978, as a presenter on the late-night entertainment magazine show, What's On, which was just shown in the ITV Granada region. She was known then simply as Margox. In 1983 Clarke appeared as 'Fran' in episodes 54 and 66 of the Liverpool-set Channel 4 soap opera Brookside, credited as Margi MacGregor. Her brother Frank wrote her in, because, as she later said, she "had a gas bill which I couldn't pay". She first came to prominence in 1985 after starring in the low-budget cult film Letter to Brezhnev about two working-class Liverpool girls who meet two Russian sailors. The film was made for approximately £50,000 (Clarke called this "the cocaine budget on Rambo"), and became a huge international hit. Margi originated her role of Theresa in Letter to Brezhnev some three years earlier when the she played the role in a modest run at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1983. In 1986, at the Evening Standard British Film LESS