Candy davis biography

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Candy Davis was born on January 2, 1962 in London, England, UK. She was an actress and writer, known for Are You Being Served?
Candy Davis was born on 2 January 1962 in London, England, UK. She was an actress and writer, known for Are You Being Served?

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"It is really important to push yourself with your fears... I always find the most frightening thing is the unknown. I always say the wolf's footprints are more frightening than the wolf itself. And so that's my way of dealing with fear — to understand it."

Candy Davis, born Clare Damaris Bastin, (2 January 1962 — 27 July 2021), was a British model/actress turned author best known for playing Miss Belfridge in Are You Being Served?.

In 1982, she took part in and won the Miss Nude America contest, which was followed by some time working as a Page Three Stunna. After some small glamour roles on TV, she played Miss Belfridge in the final two series of Are You Being Served?, the final of the Sexy Secretaries featured in the series.

In 1985, she married Gary Olsen and emigrated to Japan to teach English as a foreign language. By The '90s, she was divorced from Olsen and back in Britain to begin working as an author under Pen Names such as "Mo Hayder" and "Theo Clare". She published her first novel, Birdman, in 1999. It was an international bestseller.

She died

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Louise “Candy” Davis

Born July 11, 1939, Louise “Candy” Davis began singing at age three. As a teenager, she sang with a Birmingham group called the Guiding Stars. During the 1960s, Davis turned her voice into a vehicle for peace by joining the Birmingham-based Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights Choir. The choir, under the direction of Carlton Reese, provided the music that encouraged the men, women, and children who put their lives in danger marching along the sidewalks of Birmingham in support of civil rights.

Davis married Leon Davis Jr. and they had four children. She formed a group called Faith that included Eloise Gaffney, John Wes Lewis, Mary Pratt, Jim Hollins and Lawrence Sneed. Their album Higher was released independently, then picked up by a Birmingham label called Prestige. When Frank Williams, executive director of Malaco Records’ gospel division, heard the group, he signed them and in 1984 re-issued Higher as Lord Lift Us Higher.

Davis made three more albums for Malaco: Better than Blessed (1985), Then These Trials

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Candy Davis

Born

2 January 1962(1962-01-02)

Died

27 July 2021(2021-07-27) (aged 59)

Where

Cheltenham, England

Birth Name

Clare Damaris Bastin

Occupation

Actor, Model, Author,

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The Sweet Smell of Success

Candy Davis (January 2, 1962) - (July 27, 2021) was born Clare Damaris Bastin. She was an English actress, model, and author.

Daughter of a NASA physicist, Candy was born in Essex in 1962. She worked in a sweet shop during her teenage years. After being crowned Miss Nude in 1982, she said she aspired to be the world's most beautiful woman and set her sights on the Miss World title.

Candy married the 2point4children actor Gary Olsen in 1982, and they later divorced.

She appeared on television in a variety of popular shows of the 1980s, notably in The Comic Strip series, though not as a regular. However she then shot to fame after winning the role of blonde bombshell Miss Belfridge in the last two series of the hugely successful BBC sitcom Are You Being Served? The show regularly pulled in high viewing figures and she was a