Gwyneth Strong is an English actress. She is best known for her role in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses as Cassandra, the love interest and, later, wife of Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst). Strong's first acting appearance was in the Royal Court Theatre's production Live Like Pigs, when she was eleven. In 1973, whilst a pupil at Holland Park School, she appeared in the horror film Nothing But the Night as Mary Valley, and she was a regular in the children's TV series The Flockton Flyer between 1977 and 1979, as Jan Carter. As well as her prominent role in the later series of Only Fools and Horses, she has appeared in the "Observation" segment about Detective Samantha Smith made for the 1990 series of The Krypton Factor, the two-part drama serial The Missing Postman as WPC Rachel McMahon, the BBC drama Real Women from 1997 to 1998, as Hetty in ITV's Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married (1999), and in BBC drama Casualty in 2013 as Jim Brodie's wife, Elizabeth. Strong featured in the television film It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow (1975), written by Bernard Kops and directed by John Goldschmidt, depicting the real-life drama of the Bethnal Green tube disaster in the Second World War. She also appeared in the "True Confessions" two-part episode of the series A Touch of Frost, reuniting her on screen with her Only Fools and Horses co-star David Jason. She appeared on the West End stage in 2008, in the musical Our House, in which she played Kath Casey. In May 2010, Strong appeared in an episode of Midsomer Murders. On 16 September 2016, she joined the cast of the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders, in the recurring role of Geraldine Clough. Strong married former Footballers' Wives and Eldorado star Jesse Birdsall on 15 July 2000. They have one son Oscar (born 1988), and one daughter Lottie (born 1991) She now lives in Bexhill, East Sussex.

Filmography

• The Great Train Robbery — Dorothy
• 2011In Love with Alma Cogan — Laura
• Murder in Suburbia — Pat Dawson
• New Tricks — Kim Newley
• 2004Suzie Gold — Darren's Mum
• Doctors — Dee
• Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show
• Forgotten — Denise Longden
• Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married — Hetty
• Real Women — Janet Crossley
• An Unsuitable Job for a Woman — DI Richards
• Midsomer Murders — Katie Soper
• 1997The Missing Postman — WPC Rachel McMahon
• The Missing Postman — WPC Rachel McMahon
• 1996Crimetime — Gwenda
• Paul Merton in Galton & Simpson's — Joyce
• Silent Witness — Patricia Denning
• 1995Thin Ice — Cath
• 99-1 — Charlotte
• 1993The Clothes in the Wardrobe — Cynthia
• A Touch of Frost — DS Bailey
• 1992Afraid of the Dark — Blind Mother with Baby
• Nice Town — Linda Thompson
• 1991Only Fools & Horses - Miami Twice - The Movie — Cassandra Trotter
• Shrinks — Sally Thornton
• 1990Living with Dinosaurs — Teacher
• 1989Bosses From Hell
• The Jim Henson Hour — Teacher
• 1987Cry Freedom — Girl at Funeral
• Casualty — Elizabeth Brodie, Ceri Mayland, Catherine Caldwell, Margaret Collier
• King of the Ghetto — Sadie Deedes
• Paradise Postponed — Tina Kitson
• EastEnders — Geraldine Clough
• Inside Out — Beverly Grabowski
• 1985Parker — Andrea
• Screen Two — Cynthia
• 1985White City — Girlfriend
• 1984Rainy Day Women — Linda
• The Bill — Mary Painter
• Dramarama — Rachel's Sister
• Mr. Right — Gloria
• Spooky — Alice
• 1982The Story of Ruth — Sharon
• Only Fools and Horses — Cassandra Trotter (née Parry), Cassandra Parry
• 1981The Factory — Penny Shepherd
• 1980Bloody Kids — Jan, Ken's Girlfriend
• 1980Dark Water — Jo
• 1980Electric in the City — Kerwin's Follower
• 1980Ladies — Anne
• Minder — Juror
• 1979No Mama No — Girl junkie
• 1977Age of Hypocrisy — Madeleine & Tempe Iverson
• Jubilee 1977 — Madeleine Iverson / Tempe Iverson
• Just William — Lanky Girl
• The Flockton Flyer — Jan
• 1976Early Struggles — Carol
• Angels — Evie
• Edward the Seventh — Minny
• 1975It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow — Jane Bell
• Shadows — HoneyAnn, Elizabeth
• Playhouse — Kerwin's Follower
• 1973Nothing But the Night — Mary Valley
• Crown Court — Sandra Petrie
• The Adventures of Black Beauty — Cicely Eglinton
• Play for Today — Penny Shepherd, Anne, Carol, Linda
• ITV Playhouse — Girl junkie
• Z-Cars — Janet Hurst

Appearances as themselves (2)

• The Story of Only Fools And Horses — Self
• 2002The Story of Only Fools and Horses — Self