Joan Hooley

Joan Hooley
Born (1936-11-13) 13 November 1936 (age 88)
Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom[1]
OccupationCharacter actor
Notable credit(s)EastEnders (1998–2000)
Off Their Rockers (2015–2016)
Spouse
Geoff Harris
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(m. 2002; died 2004)​

Joan Hooley (born 13 November 1936) is a British actress.[1][2] She is best known for playing the role of Josie McFarlane in BBC's EastEnders. Still, she has also appeared in other television programmes, since the mid-1950s. Since 2015, she has appeared in ITV's Off Their Rockers.

Career

Hooley first appeared on television in the 1950s. She was cast in the ITV hospital soap opera Emergency Ward 10 and appeared in the series in 1964. She played Dr Louise Mahler, who embarked on an interracial relationship with a white doctor, Giles Farmer (played by John White), which included what was long-thought to have been the first interracial kiss on television.[3] A love scene between the two characters was rewritten because it was considered "a little too suggestive".[4] She has commented, "I suddenly found myself in the papers under the headline: 'Black and White TV Kiss Banned'. It was very upsetting and it hit my self-esteem. My part suddenly evaporated and Dr Mahler was sent back to Africa on a holiday where she was bitten by a snake and died. What an exit!"[2]

Her other credits include roles in No Hiding Place (1961); Danger Man (1965); Special Branch (1969); as Umma in C.A.B. (1988); The Bill (1988; 1993); Bugs (1995) and Kavanagh QC (1997). In 1998 she was cast as Josie McFarlane, the mother of Mick McFarlane (Sylvester Williams), in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. The character was introduced by executive producer Matthew Robinson, but in November 1999 it was announced that Hooley's character was being dropped.[5]

She made her final appearance in episodes transmitted in February 2000. Since leaving the serial, Hooley has publicly accused EastEnders and the BBC of racism and tokenism, for giving her character no significant storylines, and using her like a prop. In 2000 she commented, "It was very demeaning and a form of insidious racism. That is a very strong phrase to use against the BBC and EastEnders but I feel very badly about how they handled my character. They were just fulfilling a duty to have a black face in the show."[2]

Hooley subsequently had roles in Urban Gothic (2000); Doctors (2004), and Respectable (2006), among others. As well as acting, Hooley has written scripts for the Channel 4 sitcom Desmond's.[2]

In 2015, Hooley joined the cast of ITV's Off Their Rockers as one of the pranksters. She starred in Season 5, Episode 2 of BBC's Death In Paradise, which aired on 28 January 2016.

Personal life

In 2002, at the age of 65, Hooley married actor Geoffrey Harvard Harris,[6] known for his portrayal of Charles Dickens in his one-man Dickens show. They met and became a couple in 1993, and remained together until Harris' death of cancer in 2004.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b The BFI indicates Joan Hooley was born in Manchester, Lancashire. See "Joan Hooley". BFI Film Forever. Archived from the original on 11 September 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d Danny Buckland (23 July 2000). "Racist BBC only want black actors to be whores, gangsters, pimps and freaks; EASTENDERS STAR JOAN SLAMS SOAP OVER STEREOTYPES". The People. Retrieved 18 February 2008.
  3. ^ "Emergency - Ward 10". Television Heaven. Archived from the original on 10 March 2009. Retrieved 26 March 2009.
  4. ^ Anthony Clark. "Emergency - Ward 10 (1957-67)". Screenonline. Retrieved 18 February 2008.
  5. ^ Matthew Wright (2 November 1999). "HOOLEY GONER". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 18 February 2008.
  6. ^ Geoffrey Harris obituary, The Stage, 10 January 2005.
  7. ^ Sally Farmiloe-Neville. "Obituary: Geoffrey Harvard Harris". Hot Gossip. Retrieved 18 February 2008.

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