Sue Robbie
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article does not cite any references or sources. (June 2007) Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. |
Sue Robbie (b. Susan Robinson on July 5, 1949, London) grew up in the north-west of England and was educated at Keele University, where she read English and Psychology. Before working in television, she was a schoolteacher and an air hostess.
She was a continuity announcer for Granada Television in the late-1970s and early-1980s and frequently appeared with fellow Granada announcer Charles Foster. Both Robbie and Foster were narrators of Granada's highly-acclaimed schools programmes for the ITV network.
She then went on to present various other Granada shows for the ITV network, including First Post, Connections (where she was the original host, and in which Foster announced the prizes, before being replaced by Richard Madeley when the show was moved to a prime-time slot), Hold Tight! (where she replaced the Selecter vocalist Pauline Black) and TX (where she starred alongside a young Tony Slattery). She was also an occasional presenter and expert guest in the early years of ITV's This Morning show.
Having retired from television in the early-1990s, she now works as a voice-over artist and occasionally anchors corporate shows. More recently she lent her voice to a Ken Loach film, The Navigators, in 2001.
