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Nanu
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Nana Moon (Hilda Braid) sadly past away today!
After training at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Braid appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company before breaking into television. Her first role was in 1963 in the anthology drama series Suspense. She also appeared as Winnie Plumtree in the ITV soap Crossroads and in another network soap, Emmerdale, as P. Morphett. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s she appeared in a number of guest roles on TV.
Braid's big break came in middle-age, however, when she was cast as Florence Johnson in Citizen Smith, a comedy starring Robert Lindsay about the leader of the 'Tooting Popular Front' Wolfie Smith. Braid played the mother of Wolfie's girlfriend, essentially as a middle-class mother whose conservative influences and attitudes were used to offset the revolutionary Wolfie's socialist ideals. After four series, Citizen Smith came to an end in 1980. Braid and Lindsay were reunited twenty years later, in an episode of Lindsay's other popular comedy My Family. Braid found work in more bit parts in TV plays, dramas and sitcoms plus another soap with a brief role as Molly Partridge in Brookside in 1984.
Her next most important role came when in 2002 she joined the London-based soap EastEnders as Victoria, 'Nana' Moon, the slightly dotty but sweet grandmother of the popular Alfie Moon (Shane Richie). She had played the role for three years when Richie announced he was leaving to pursue other projects. Unfortunately, this meant the demise of the character of Nana, who was diagnosed with a terminal illness onscreen. Despite the critical reaction amongst some fans who contended that Nana did not have to leave because Alfie was going, EastEnders responded that it would be unrealistic to keep Nana on Albert Square because none of her family would be around. Braid's final scenes for EastEnders were shown 16 December 2005.
She died on 6 November 2007 in Brighton, East Sussex.
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 RIP, she played nana moon well.
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Ridahz
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R.I.P
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KingBooker5
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RIP. She had a long happy life. (was she the granny in Braniac?) |
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R.I.P Nana |
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R.I.P
She was brill!
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A L 3 X
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R.I.P nana moon
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chrisfirst
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Oh man... I loved her! To be honest I've even cried when she passed away in Eastenders!
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joebmc
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Really sad. She reminds me of my grandmother so much.
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Red_Rach
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Aww....
RIP
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grizlore
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sad, i bet woolfy will be upset
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haynesycop
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Ah bless she was so great in Eastenders!
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KCC4
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Aw man, another gr8 actor lost, R.I.P 
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Posted: 2007-11-06 17:42
