If the cascade of golden curls and brilliant white smile are instantly familiar, the breathy, sing-song, Marilyn Monroe voice is unmistakable. It belongs, of course, to Sandra Dickinson, the American actress who became a household name in Britain by playing young airhead blondes.
Sandra, who is now 60, still lingers in the public imagination as Trillian in the classic BBC television serialisation of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.
But her acting credits include such fondly remembered ‘classics’ as 2point4 Children and Triangle – the soap opera set aboard a North Sea ferry – together with a host of cameo appearances alongside the likes of The Two Ronnies.
Glamorous gran: Sandra at home with her new love Mark Osmond
Sitting in her spacious bungalow in West London, Sandra seems almost untouched by the passage of time and her excitement – almost palpable – has an uncannily youthful quality.
It’s just as well, because she is about to embark on a dramatic new chapter in her life. On August 16, she will marry her fiance Mark Osmond, an actor and drama teacher 20 years her junior.
Relaxing in a cream top, black cotton Capri pants and high-heeled clacky mules, Sandra cheerfully points out that Mark was born in 1969, the year she arrived in Britain from her native Washington DC as a 20-year-old ingenue.
They first met in panto in Poole, Dorset, in 2002. Sandra played the Empress of China in Aladdin, Mark was PC Pong and, she says, the attraction was mutual.
‘But when we first got involved, I told Mark I thought it was an inappropriate relationship,’ Sandra explains.
Sandra: ‘I was old enough to be his mother. He said he felt I was timeless. I came to realise that you fall in love with a person, not their age.’‘I was old enough to be his mother. He said he felt I was timeless. I came to realise that you fall in love with a person, not their age.’ [rc]
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July 27, 2009
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LONDON, England / The Daily Mail / Femail / Beauty / July 27, 2009
Sandra Dickinson: Why I'm marrying a man 20 years younger than me
By Richard Barber
If the cascade of golden curls and brilliant white smile are instantly familiar, the breathy, sing-song, Marilyn Monroe voice is unmistakable. It belongs, of course, to Sandra Dickinson, the American actress who became a household name in Britain by playing young airhead blondes.
Sandra, who is now 60, still lingers in the public imagination as Trillian in the classic BBC television serialisation of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.
But her acting credits include such fondly remembered ‘classics’ as 2point4 Children and Triangle – the soap opera set aboard a North Sea ferry – together with a host of cameo appearances alongside the likes of The Two Ronnies.
Glamorous gran: Sandra at home with her new love Mark Osmond
Sitting in her spacious bungalow in West London, Sandra seems almost untouched by the passage of time and her excitement – almost palpable – has an uncannily youthful quality.
It’s just as well, because she is about to embark on a dramatic new chapter in her life. On August 16, she will marry her fiance Mark Osmond, an actor and drama teacher 20 years her junior.
Relaxing in a cream top, black cotton Capri pants and high-heeled clacky mules, Sandra cheerfully points out that Mark was born in 1969, the year she arrived in Britain from her native Washington DC as a 20-year-old ingenue.
They first met in panto in Poole, Dorset, in 2002. Sandra played the Empress of China in Aladdin, Mark was PC Pong and, she says, the attraction was mutual.
‘But when we first got involved, I told Mark I thought it was an inappropriate relationship,’ Sandra explains.
Sandra: ‘I was old enough to be his mother. He said he felt I was timeless. I came to realise that you fall in love with a person, not their age.’‘I was old enough to be his mother. He said he felt I was timeless. I came to realise that you fall in love with a person, not their age.’ [rc]
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© 2009 Associated Newspapers Ltd
If the cascade of golden curls and brilliant white smile are instantly familiar, the breathy, sing-song, Marilyn Monroe voice is unmistakable. It belongs, of course, to Sandra Dickinson, the American actress who became a household name in Britain by playing young airhead blondes.
Sandra, who is now 60, still lingers in the public imagination as Trillian in the classic BBC television serialisation of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.
But her acting credits include such fondly remembered ‘classics’ as 2point4 Children and Triangle – the soap opera set aboard a North Sea ferry – together with a host of cameo appearances alongside the likes of The Two Ronnies.
Glamorous gran: Sandra at home with her new love Mark Osmond
Sitting in her spacious bungalow in West London, Sandra seems almost untouched by the passage of time and her excitement – almost palpable – has an uncannily youthful quality.
It’s just as well, because she is about to embark on a dramatic new chapter in her life. On August 16, she will marry her fiance Mark Osmond, an actor and drama teacher 20 years her junior.
Relaxing in a cream top, black cotton Capri pants and high-heeled clacky mules, Sandra cheerfully points out that Mark was born in 1969, the year she arrived in Britain from her native Washington DC as a 20-year-old ingenue.
They first met in panto in Poole, Dorset, in 2002. Sandra played the Empress of China in Aladdin, Mark was PC Pong and, she says, the attraction was mutual.
‘But when we first got involved, I told Mark I thought it was an inappropriate relationship,’ Sandra explains.
Sandra: ‘I was old enough to be his mother. He said he felt I was timeless. I came to realise that you fall in love with a person, not their age.’‘I was old enough to be his mother. He said he felt I was timeless. I came to realise that you fall in love with a person, not their age.’ [rc]
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