The actor Jo Kendall, who has died aged 81, was catapulted to fame as the only woman alongside a group of six male Cambridge University students – including John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie – in a revue that wowed the critics in the West End of London and transferred to Broadway in the early 1960s.
A decade later, she spoke the first words in the television soap Emmerdale Farm (now titled Emmerdale), in the role of Peggy Skilbeck, Annie Sugden’s daughter.
