MULTI-CULTURAL BUSINESS & COMMUNITY AWARDS
I was declared as the 'Motivational Queen' in 2022 and awarded the Multi-Cultural Business & Community Lifetime Achievement Award in Birmingham
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Welcome to the official website of Baroness Floella Benjamin, OM DBE DL
Hello and welcome to my website. This is where you can find out everything you want to know about me. From my work as an actress, presenter, broadcaster and parliamentarian, to the work I do for charity.
October is ‘Black History Month’ and I have recorded a short celebratory message about the importance of knowing our history and looking to the future, because that’s where our destiny lies. Watch my video message here.
My beloved mother ‘Marmie’ passed away in 2008… I miss her so, but feel her presence in everything I do, especially when I find a white feather which means she’s watching over me. A beautiful woman whose legacy lives on and will do forever through her children, her grandchildren and her great grand children. Sadly, she died from bowel cancer, that is why I am a patron of Bowel Cancer UK
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HARPER’S BAZAAR WOMEN OF THE YEAR
I was super thrilled to be named as a Woman of the Year by Harper’s Bazaar in 2020
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EUROPEAN DIVERSITY AWARDS
I was honoured and overjoyed to receive the European Diversity Lifetime Award in 2023 for my contribution to ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ for the last 50 years.
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WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION LIFETIME AWARD
I was honoured to receive the Women in Film & Television Lifetime Award for my contribution to the creative industry. I was presented tome my one of my Playschool Babies, Nikki Amuka-Bird. I played her mum in the BBC drama ‘Line of Beauty’ and she told me I inspired her when he was a little girl so it was very appropriate.
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