Faith Brown was born Eunice Irene Carroll in Liverpool on 28 May 1944, and she is an English comedian, impressionist, actress and singer. She began as a singer with her brothers in the vocal group The Carrolls before working as a solo singer. Her move into comedy came from a 1960s club performance in Preston, where her skirt split and she slipped into an impression of Hylda Baker to cover the moment.

She became best known as a star of the ITV impressions show Who Do You Do? and for The Faith Brown Chat Show in 1980, the year she won a TV Times award for Funniest Woman on TV. Her stage and screen work includes Miss Hannigan in Annie and Norma Desmond in the touring production of Sunset Boulevard. Her talk is quick