What Happened To EastEnders Actress Mona Hammond? Mona Hammond was a Jamaican-British actress who recently passed away at the age of 91.
The BBC’s EastEnders character Blossom Jackson was the one for which the Jamaican-British actress was most recognized. Early in the 1990s, she played Susu in Desmond’s.
Hammond has a lengthy and illustrious career on stage. She was well recognized for her role as Blossom Jackson in the BBC serial opera EastEnders and for her work on British television. For her contributions to theater, she received an OBE in the 2005 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
What Happened To EastEnders Actress Mona Hammond? Her Death Cause
Actress Mona Hammond passed away at the age of 91. Tributes are flooding in for the “trailblazer” star. However, the cause of her death has not been revealed to the public yet.
There were no reports of Mona suffering from illness prior to her death, so it is unclear at the moment what was the cause of the actress’s death.
BREAKING EastEnders and Desmond's actress Mona Hammond dies as tributes pour inhttps://t.co/lPZBc33WJg pic.twitter.com/s2Bb1tUqzB
— Mirror Breaking News (@MirrorBreaking_) July 5, 2022
Mona started her acting career on stage, playing Lady Macbeth in an all-Black ensemble and starring in a number of plays by aspiring Black playwrights including Sweet Talk & Josephine House.
Additionally, she worked on stage for two years with The Crucible, Peer Gynt, and Fuente Ovejuna for the Royal National Theatre. Before switching to EastEnders, she first worked on the television shows The Sweeney, Juliet Bravo, & Coronation Street.
Along with Holby City, she has appeared in shows including Death in Paradise, Doctor Who, The Bill, and Last of the Mohicans. She originated the character of Susu in Desmond’s cast and reprised it in the Porkpie spin-off of the series. On BBC’s The Archers, the late celebrity played Mabel Thompson, which was broadcast on television.
Mona Hammond Family Explored
Mavis Chin gave birth to Hammond on January 1st, 1931 in Tweeside, Clarendon Parish. Her mother was Jamaican, while her father was Chinese.
On a Jamaican Scholarship, she went to the UK in 1959 where she worked for Norman & Dawbarn Architects. She spent two years doing evening sessions at the City Literary Institute in London before receiving a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), where she received her degree in 1964.
RIP Mona Hammond ??
An extremely talented Jamaican actress who did theatre and TV but will always be Auntie SuSu from Desmond's to many of us.
She will be sorely missed.
May she sleep peacefully ❤️?? pic.twitter.com/AMUD7466JQ— Lorraine King (@lorrainemking) July 5, 2022
Her Chinese father & Jamaican mother gave Mona the name Mavis Chin. In 2005, she received an OBE in recognition of her contributions to the theater. For her efforts to support Black British actresses, she also received the Women of the World Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.
Who Are Mona Hammond Children?
There is no information about Mona’s children in the media yet. She was a very discreet person and did not disclose much information regarding her personal life.
Hammond received the Women of the World Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018 in recognition of her lengthy and illustrious career in theater and for supporting Black British artists with Talawa Theatre Company. Inigo Espejel, Carmen Munroe, Yvonne Brewster, and Hammond created Talawa Theatre Company in 1985, which went on to become one of the most well-known black theater organizations in the UK.
In the 2005 Queen’s Birthday Honours List, Hammond was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her contributions to the theater in the UK. The highest UK honor given by the Screen Nation Film & Television Awards, the Edric Connor Inspiration Award, was given to Hammond in 2006.
