Heather Chasen

Heather Jean Chasen is a Singaporeborn English actress. Chasen is known for her roles in soap operas playing Valerie Pollard in the ITV soap opera Crossroads from 198286 and guest roles in Doctors, Holby City and Family Affairs. Chasen also played many roles in BBC Radio 2s The Navy Lark from 195977, and appeared in the television series Marked Personal from 197374. She played Lydia Simmonds in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, a role which received positive reviews from critics, EastEnders cast members and crew. Furthermore, she has appeared extensively in theatre productions and film in 2012, she appeared in a film version of Les Misrables.

Chasen was born on 20160July1601927, in Singapore. Chasens father, F.N. Chasen was an English ornithologist, who fought in World War I under the Norfolk Yeomanry as a trooper. In 1921, he left England, to work at the Raffles Library and Museum in Singapore, marrying Chasens mother, Agnes H McCullock, in 1926. After Chasens birth, her parents had another daughter, Christine Elizabeth, on 4160May1601931. Her parents split in 1938, and both remarried. Before the Japanese occupation, which led to the Battle of Singapore during World War II, Chasen and her mother left Singapore on the last boat before the occupation. Her father, on a separate ship, HMS Giang Bee, perished however, when it was sunk by the Japanese onFebruary 1942, and Chasens new stepfather, G.C.R Franks, too perished fighting, a month later, on theMarch. Chasen and her mother moved to England and Chasen trained at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she then acted on stage and went on a tour with Frankie Howerd in

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