Judy Bennett

Judy Bennett (born 1943) is a British voice actress whose career in radio began with the long-running soap opera The Archers, in which she played the role of Shula Hebden-Lloyd from 1971 to 2022, reappearing in 2023 after a break. She played Shula's twin brother Kenton and younger sister Elizabeth before assuming the role of Shula herself.

She has voiced characters in a number of cartoon series, including The Perishers (1979) and Dennis the Menace and Gnasher in the late 1990s.

She attended Notre Dame Mount Pleasant High School (a girls' catholic grammar school, now St Julie's Catholic High School) in Liverpool.

Bennett studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 1976 she married Canadian-English actor Charles Collingwood, who plays Archers character Brian Aldridge. Actress Jane Collingwood (born 1979) is their daughter.