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Susan Georgina Pollard was born on 7th November in Nottingham, England. The eldest daughter to Don and Hilda Pollard - they were in shock for so long that it took them another seven years before they came up with a sister for Su, in the shape of the lovely Jean.

Su's interest in the stage began when at the age of six she played an angel in the school nativity play. Whilst standing on a box announcing the arrival of the Angel Gabriel, she fell through the lid. Everyone roared with laughter and she loved it from that moment. 

At sixteen she began singing in charity shows and at working men's clubs and pubs whilst working as a secretary and her claim to fame from that time was that she was the first woman to sing 'Ave Maria' in hotpants in a working men's club!

After an apprenticeship at the Arts Theatre in Nottingham Su made her television debut in on the enormously popular talent show hosted by Hughie Green, Opportunity Knocks, where her rendition of 'I'm Just A Girl Who