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Carmen Munroe Quotes

born 1932 United Kingdom

Carmen Esme Munroe, OBE (born 12 November 1932) is a British actress who was born in Berbice, British Guiana (now Guyana), and has been a resident of the UK since the early 1950s. Munroe made her West End stage debut in 1962 and has played an instrumental role in the development of black British theatre and representation on small screen.

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I noticed that black girls never had names in movies. They were just "girl" I remember one instruction read "Enter girl, not very black."

[On limited opportunities for African Caribbean actresses in the UK] If you want to know how many black women are being employed, go to the BBC canteen.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Carmen Munroe (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.