FLOELLA BENJAMIN, OBE
Member, Board of Governors
Actress, broadcaster and independent producer. Author of over 20 books and has appeared on British television for over thirty years. She is best known for her appearances in Playschool and Playaway. Her production company has made a wide range of award winning programmes which have been shown world wide. Coming to England, a film for the BBC, adapted from her book, won a Royal Television Society Award and nominated for a CRE RIMA Award.
Floella was Chairman of BAFTA-Television, she created the BAFTA Children's Film & Television Awards and in 2001 was awarded the OBE, for Services to Broadcasting. In 2004 she received the BAFTA Special Lifetime Award and 2005 an Honorary Doctorate at Exeter University for her influence on British society. She also received the IVCA Clarion CSR Champion Award and the GG2 Lifetime Achievement Leadership & Diversity Award.
She is an OFCOM Content Board Member, a Millennium Commissioner, President of the Elizabeth R Commonwealth Broadcasting Fund and Governor of the National Film & Television School and Dulwich College.
She was appointed a Life Peer in the 2010 Dissolution Honours List.
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