Mona Hammond: EastEnders, Desmond’s actor, is dead at 91

After actress Mona Hammond’s tragic death on Monday, July 4, 2022, tributes flooded in.

Mona Hammond was 91 years old when she died. In 2005, the OBE was awarded to her.

In 2018, the actress received the Women of the World lifetime achievement Award for her theater career and for supporting black British actors.

Mona Hammond played a variety of roles throughout her career. These included soaps, television series, and films.

Here are the facts about Mona Hammond, the actress who died in Monday, July 4, 2022.

Mona Hammond played what role in EastEnders, and in which other shows did she star?

From 1994 to 2010, Blossom Jackson was played by Mona Hammond.

Blossom was the granddaughter of Alan Jackson and the great-grandmother to Billie Jackson and Kai Jackson.

Her first appearance in Albert Square was on May 16, 1994. Her last appearance was on October 26, 2010.

Hammond also starred in The Sweeney and Desmond’s, Coronation’s Street Holby City, Holby City, The Bill A Touch of Frost, Doctors, Doctor Who, and Coronation’s Street.

The actress has appeared in Fords on Water and Maderlay, Kinky Boots, 10,000 BC, and Malay.

Her stage career started with Hammond, a Jamaican-born actress who played Lady Macbeth at The Roundhouse in Peter Coe’s African version.

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Mona Hammond was born; when and where did she go to school?

Mona Hammond was conceived in Tweeside Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, on January 1, 1931. When she died, Mona Hammond was 91 years of age.

Her mother was Jamaican, and her father was Chinese.

She left Jamaica at 28 to go to the UK as a Jamaican Scholar. There she worked in an architecture firm.

She attended classes in the evenings at the City Literary Institute in London, where she stayed for two years before being awarded a scholarship to The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Finally, at 33 years old, she graduated from the famed drama school.

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