Known for Acting
Birthday
February 17, 1940
Place of Birth
Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Biography
Josephine Mary Robinson, better known by her stage name Jo Kendall (17 February 1940 – 29 January 2022) was a British actress and writer. She was known for her work on the BBC radio comedy show I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, which debuted in 1964, and for her role as Peggy Skilbeck on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale (then Emmerdale Farm) from 1972 to 1973, in which she also spoke the programme's first line of dialogue in the inaugural episode. Kendall was born Josephine Mary Robinson in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, on 17 February 1940. After leaving Leicester she trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and gained her Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music (LRAM).

Peak Practice

Grange Hill

Emmerdale

The Bill

Rumpole of the Bailey

The New Avengers

Angels

The Goodies

Shine on Harvey Moon

The Edwardians

The Brittas Empire

Man About the House

At Last the 1948 Show

In Sickness and in Health

The Regiment

The Pallisers

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Fortunes of War

The Good Companions

Sense and Sensibility