Name |
Cleo Rocos |
Height |
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Naionality |
English |
Date of Birth |
24-July-1962 |
Place of Birth |
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Famous for |
Acting |
Cleo Rocos is a UK-based comedy actress and television/theatre producer and presenter, best known for appearing on The Kenny Everett Television Show. She is of Greek and English descent. Her father was Greek, and her mother was English.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, Rocos appeared regularly on television, from a minor role in the TV adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to being a roving reporter for the consumer affairs show That's Life!. She was most frequently seen in Kenny Everett's BBC series The Kenny Everett Television Show, in which her glamorous and curvaceous figure was often used to comic effect as a focus for drooling, lascivious men - a role echoed by her similar appearances in the 1985 TV sketch series Assaulted Nuts. She also appeared alongside Everett in BBC1 science quiz series Brainstorm, playing a white-coated lab assistant.
An occasional sidekick to 'shock jock' DJ James Whale on late-night ITV in the early 1990s, she fulfilled a similar role with TV critic Garry Bushell on ITV nocturnal TV-review series Bushell on the Box. She also made a few appearances in the Ugly Bloke slot, as an incongruously glamorous escort to facially-challenged males, on Chris Evans' Channel 4 series TFI Friday in about 1996. Other TV credits include an acting role in US drama series Highlander, presenting and co-producing a short channel Five series on Princess Diana's dresses, participating in BBC game shows such as Wipeout, Blankety Blank and Ready, Steady, Cook, and partaking in Five's karaoke show Night Fever. Films include 1980s comedy horror spoof Bloodbath at the House of Death (with Kenny Everett) and Babyjuice Express.