Louisa Rix

Louisa Rix is the daughter of farce actor Brian Rix and actress Elspet Gray. Louisa studied drama at LAMDA and acted for many years on TV and in the theatre. She gained early theatre experience with Richard Eyre's company at Nottingham Playhouse, and in Peter Cheeseman's company at Stoke On Trent. Her subsequent West End appearances included How the Other Half Loves and Man of the Moment by Alan Ayckbourn; The Pocket Dream by Sandi Toksvig & Elly Brewer; and Whose Life is it Anyway? by Brian Clark, as well as several productions at the National Theatre. She is noted for playing Kevin the teenager's mum (Mrs Patterson) in the TV series Harry Enfield and Chums, and subsequently in the movie Kevin & Perry Go Large. For Granada TV she co-starred with Tim Bentinck in Made In Heaven. She played Mel Smith's girlfriend in two series of Colin's Sandwich and starred in two series of Side By Side, both for BBC TV. In Brookside she played alongside Anna Friel as the solicitor representing the Jordache family in the infamous 'body under the patio' storyline. She played the vocally-challenged night club singer Melody Lane in a feature-length Coronation Street special filmed on the QE11. One of her final roles was as the Home Secretary in The Execution of Gary Glitter. Having originally studied art before she went to drama school Louisa finally quit acting to pursue her passion for design. Since 2012 she has run the interior design company Forbes Rix Designs with her business partner Natalie Forbes.