Editing Coventry (section)

===The arts===
{{see also|Category:Artists from Coventry|Category:Musicians from Coventry|Category:Writers from Coventry|Category:Mass media people from Coventry}}

The Shakespearean actor [[Dame Ellen Terry]] was born in Coventry in 1847.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Howland |first=David |date=2001 |title=Ellen Terry |url=https://d.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/text/howland-ellen-terry |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=The Camelot Project, [[University of Rochester]]}}</ref> Other Coventrians in the arts include comedy film directors [[Debbie Isitt]],<ref name=":0" /> [[Alice Lowe]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mushfi |date=2024-05-23 |title=Alice Lowe: A Shapeshifting Talent Redefining Comedy - Birmingham Journal |url=https://birminghamjournal.co.uk/alice-lowe/ |access-date=2024-10-15 |language=en-US}}</ref> and [[Sharon Maguire]];<ref>{{Cite web |last=Quinn |first=Anthony |date=2012-04-10 |title=Smart Shazzer - the boss in control |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/film/smart-shazzer-the-boss-in-control-6331571.html |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=The Standard |language=en}}</ref> comedians [[Reg Dixon (comedian)|Reg Dixon]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chambers |first=Pete |date=2014-07-31 |title=Backbeat: Coventry kid who found fame as a comedian, but never forgot his roots |url=https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/backbeat-coventry-kid-reg-dixon-7543643 |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=Coventry Live |language=en}}</ref> [[Emma Fryer]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=McMullen |first=Marion |date=2009-09-13 |title=Coventry kid Emma Fryer returns to her roots for new TV comedy |url=https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/coventry-kid-emma-fryer-returns-3076577 |access-date=2024-11-09 |website=Coventry Live |language=en}}</ref> and [[Guz Khan]];<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lobb |first=Adrian |date=2020-01-26 |title=Guz Khan: 'We wanted to dispel myths around foodbanks' |url=https://www.bigissue.com/culture/tv/guz-khan-we-wanted-to-dispel-myths-around-foodbanks/ |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=Big Issue |language=en-US}}</ref> actors [[Jassa Ahluwalia]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barcroft |first=Damian Michael |date=2013-11-25 |title=Exclusive Interview with Jassa Ahluwalia previewing tonight's RIPPER STREET {{!}} Damian Michael Barcroft |url=http://dmbarcroft.com/exclusive-interview-with-jassa-ahluwalia-previewing-tonights-ripper-street/ |access-date=2024-11-09 |language=en-GB}}</ref> [[Jordan Bolger]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kaur |first=Jaspreet |date=2024-03-22 |title=Coventry star of BBC's This Town says the city 'shaped who he is' |url=https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/coventry-star-bbcs-town-opens-28863161 |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=Coventry Live |language=en}}</ref> [[Nitin Ganatra]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rodger |first=James |date=2016-11-09 |title=Coventry's Nitin Ganatra reveals REAL reason he left EastEnders |url=https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/coventry-eastenders-star-nitin-ganatra-12148825 |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=Coventry Live |language=en}}</ref> [[Nigel Hawthorne]],<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Nick |date=2022-01-02 |title=25 famous people from Coventry and Warwickshire |url=https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/25-famous-people-coventry-warwickshire-22536539 |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=Coventry Live |language=en}}</ref> [[Harold Innocent]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Times (15/Sep/1993) - Obituary: Harold Innocent |url=https://www.hitchcockwiki.com/wiki/The_Times_(15/Sep/1993)_-_Obituary:_Harold_Innocent |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=The Alfred Hitchcock Wiki}}</ref> [[Charles Kay]], [[Clive Owen]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lambert |first=Tim |date=2021-03-14 |title=A History of Keresley |url=https://localhistories.org/a-history-of-keresley/ |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=Local Histories |language=en-GB}}</ref> [[Brendan Price]] and [[Robin Parkinson]];<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-05-11 |title='Allo! 'Allo! star Robin Parkinson has died aged 92 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/robin-parkinson-death-allo-age-b2076343.html |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref> actresses [[Gillian Barber]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-12-19 |title=Gillian Barber - Capilano University |url=https://www.capilanou.ca/theatre/bios/Gillian-Barber/ |access-date=2024-10-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219031949/https://www.capilanou.ca/theatre/bios/Gillian-Barber/ |archive-date=19 December 2013 }}</ref> [[Lisa Dillon]],<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |last1=Bentley |first1=David |last2=Rodger |first2=James |date=2017-07-14 |title=30 celebrities you probably didn't know were from Coventry |url=https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/celebrities-famous-people-from-coventry-6799668 |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=Coventry Live |language=en}}</ref> [[Tamla Kari]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=McMullen |first=Marion |date=2011-08-18 |title=Coventry girl's dream role in The Inbetweeners movie |url=https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/coventry-girls-dream-role-inbetweeners-3039339 |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=Coventry Live |language=en}}</ref> [[Sinead Matthews]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sinead Matthews {{!}} Actress |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1561651/ |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Bharti Patel]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC One - Doctors - Bharti Patel Interview |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5Gs8F9bC6BhTTsWfLdS0cqn/bharti-patel-interview |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref> [[Carmen Silvera]]''',''' [[Melissa Walton]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=McMullen |first=Marion |date=2010-11-18 |title=Melissa Walton's thrilled to be back in panto |url=https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/whats-on/theatre-news/melissa-waltons-thrilled-back-panto-3054062 |access-date=2024-10-30 |website=Coventry Live |language=en}}</ref> and [[Billie Whitelaw]],<ref>{{Cite news |date=2014-12-21 |title=Billie Whitelaw, star of stage and screen, dies aged 82 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30571601 |access-date=2024-10-14 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref> musicals star Dave Whillets; theatre producer Dominic Madden,{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} and ventriloquist [[Dennis Spicer]].

Writers from Coventry include the poets [[Connie Frazer]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Frazer, Connie (1925-2002) |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/people/1477494?c=people |access-date=2024-11-09 |website=trove.nla.gov.au}}</ref> [[Cathy Galvin]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cathy Galvin |url=https://warwick.ac.uk/alumni/alumni-news/news/cathy_galvin |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=warwick.ac.uk}}</ref> and [[Philip Larkin]];<ref>{{Cite ODNB |last=Thwaite |first=Anthony |title=Larkin, Philip Arthur (1922–1985), poet, writer, and librarian |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-31333 |access-date=2024-10-14 |date=2004 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/31333}}</ref> and authors Aaron Ashmore,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rowlands |first=Robert |date=2024-03-09 |title=Cov man explores our city's past and gives 1,000 books to schools |url=https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/coventry-man-explores-citys-fascinating-28772463 |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=Coventry Live |language=en}}</ref> [[Mark Barrowcliffe]], [[Cathy Cassidy]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=An Interview With Cathy Cassidy |url=https://www.letterpressproject.co.uk/inspiring-young-readers/2016-08-06/an-interview-with-cathy-cassidy |access-date=2024-11-09 |website=The Letterpress Project |language=en}}</ref> [[Lee Child]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Glass |first=Ben |date=2 December 2008 |title=If you don't know Lee Child, you don't know Jack |url=https://www.itsallaboutcoventry.co.uk/newsstory_leechild.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111201102351/http://www.itsallaboutcoventry.co.uk/newsstory_leechild.shtml |archive-date=1 December 2011 |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=It's All About Coventry.}}</ref> [[Cyril Connolly]], Wren James,<ref>{{cite web |title=WREN / LAUREN JAMES |url=https://laurenejames.co.uk/ |access-date=7 June 2024 |website=WREN / LAUREN JAMES }}</ref> and [[Graham Joyce]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Williams |first=Steve |date=2014-09-12 |title=Tributes to Coventry fantasy author Graham Joyce who has died at the age of 59 |url=https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/tributes-coventry-fantasy-author-graham-7753773 |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=Coventry Live |language=en}}</ref> Coventarian painters include [[Sydney John Bunney]],<ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=Mallalieu |first=Huon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rvkiAQAAIAAJ |title=The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists Up to 1920: A-L |date=2002 |publisher=Antique Collectors' Club |isbn=978-1-85149-426-2 |language=en}}</ref> Herbert Edward Cox,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Herbert Edward Cox – Artist {{!}} Leamington History Group |url=https://leamingtonhistory.co.uk/herbert-edward-cox-artist-1870-1941/ |access-date=2024-10-30 |language=en-GB}}</ref> [[John Eyre (painter)|John Eyre]],<ref>{{Citation |last=Rienits |first=Rex |title=John Eyre (1771–?) |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/eyre-john-2034 |access-date=2024-11-09 |place=Canberra |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |language=en}}</ref> [[David Gee (artist)|David Gee]],<ref name=":4" /> and [[Rhoda Holmes Nicholls]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Motter |first=H. L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yl5kAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA809 |title=The International Who's who: Who's who in the World : a Biographical Dictionary of the World's Notable Living Men and Women |date=1911 |publisher=International Who's Who Publishing Company |pages=809 |language=en}}</ref> 

Many notable musicians originated in Coventry, including electronic composer [[Delia Derbyshire]],<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hodgson |first=Brian |date=2001-07-07 |title=Delia Derbyshire |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jul/07/guardianobituaries1 |access-date=2024-10-15 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> members of the Specials [[Jerry Dammers]], [[Terry Hall (singer)|Terry Hall]],<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-12-19 |title=Terry Hall of The Specials dies aged 63 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64029430 |access-date=2024-10-14 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref> [[Roddy Radiation]],<ref>{{Cite news |date=2010-02-09 |title=Introducing rebel Roddy Radiation |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/coventry/low/people_and_places/music/newsid_8498000/8498785.stm |access-date=2024-10-15 |language=en-GB}}</ref> and [[Neville Staple]], member of the Selector [[Neol Davies]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Chambers |first=Pete |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T5UVgAbXXR8C&q=neol+davies+born&pg=PT20 |title=The 2-Tone Trail |date=2005 |publisher=Tencton Planet Publications |isbn=978-0-9544125-3-1 |pages=8 |language=en}}</ref> drummer [[Martin Atkins]],<ref name=":5" /> heavy metal musician [[Lee Dorrian]],<ref>Binns, Rebecca (6 September 2022). "[https://www.museumofyouthculture.com/beyond-the-ghost-town/ Coventry as a site of youth culture from boomtown to the ghost town and beyond]" ''Museum of Youth Culture''. Retrieved 14 October 2024.</ref> [[Melissa Graham]] of [[Solid HarmoniE]],<ref name=":5" /> [[Vince Hill]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rodger |first=James |date=2019-05-22 |title=Coventry singer Vince Hill heads home for farewell charity concert |url=https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/whats-on/whats-on-news/vince-hill-coventry-16306011 |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=Coventry Live |language=en}}</ref> yodeller [[Frank Ifield]], rapper [[Jay1|JAY1]],<ref name=":7" /> [[Charlotte (singer)|Charlotte Kelly]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Blind chart-topper Charlotte has the last laugh over cruel schoolchildren. - Free Online Library |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Blind+chart-topper+Charlotte+has+the+last+laugh+over+cruel...-a060199452 |access-date=2024-10-22 |website=www.thefreelibrary.com}}</ref> VJ [[Paul King (musician, VJ)|Paul King]],{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}} DJ [[Lisa Lashes]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Metason |title=Lisa Lashes |url=https://music.metason.net/artistinfo?name=Lisa%20Lashes |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=ArtistInfo |language=EN}}</ref> drummer [[Jen Ledger]] of [[Skillet (band)|Skillet]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Waddington |first=Jenny |date=2008-05-20 |title=Coventry teen Jennifer Ledger rocks all over America |url=https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/coventry-teen-jennifer-ledger-rocks-3097980 |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=Coventry Live |language=en}}</ref> composers [[Daniel Fardon]] and [[Clint Mansell]],<ref name=":5" /> singer [[Hazel O'Connor]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bourke |first=Fionnuala |date=2014-12-21 |title=Band Aid memories for Coventry singer Hazel O'Connor |url=https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/band-aid-memories-coventry-singer-8326088 |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=Birmingham Live |language=en}}</ref> [[Julianne Regan]] of [[All About Eve (band)|All About Eve]],<ref name=":5" /> lead singer of the band Stereo Nation [[Taz (singer)|Taz]],<ref name="CT64" /> [[Panjabi MC]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chambers |first=Pete |date=2013-03-07 |title=Backbeat: The bhangra song with a life of its own |url=https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/lifestyle/nostalgia/backbeat-bhangra-song-life-3013340 |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=Coventry Live |language=en}}</ref> and pianist [[Hilda Woodward]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lieutenant Pigeon pianist Hilda honoured on new Coventry and Warwickshire compilation album |url=https://stratfordobserver.co.uk/lifestyle/lieutenant-pigeon-pianist-hilda-honoured-on-new-coventry-and-warwickshire-compilation-album-10648/ |access-date=2024-11-08 |website=Stratford Observer |language=en}}</ref> [[Arthur Wills (musician)|Arthur Wills]], composer, organist and Director of Music at [[Ely Cathedral]] (1958–1990), was also born in Coventry.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wills, Arthur Wills |url=https://composers-classical-music.com/w/WillsArthur.htm |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=composers-classical-music.com}}</ref> Record producer [[Pete Waterman]] is from the city,<ref name="CT64" /> and was president of rugby team the [[Coventry Bears]], now the Midlands Hurricanes.

[[2 Tone (music genre)|2 Tone]] music developed in and around Coventry in the 1970s and two of the genre's most notable bands, [[The Specials]] and [[The Selecter]], are both from the city.<ref name="Petridis"/> The movement is celebrated at the [[Coventry Music Museum]]. Other Coventry bands include [[Bolt Thrower]], [[Coventry Automatics]], [[Lieutenant Pigeon]], [[The Primitives]], [[Adorable (band)|Adorable]], [[Fun Boy Three]], [[The Colourfield]], [[King (new wave band)|King]], [[Jigsaw (British band)|Jigsaw]], [[Napalm Death]], [[The Sorrows]], [[The Enemy (UK rock band)|The Enemy]] and [[The Ripps]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=BBC |title=Ripping up the music scene |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/content/articles/2009/04/21/botm_the_ripps_feature.shtml |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=www.bbc.co.uk |language=en-gb}}</ref>

The former glamour model [[Debee Ashby]] and international fashion model [[Neelam Gill]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-01-15 |title=Neelam Johal's crazy modelling story |url=https://www.vogue.in/content/neelam-johals-crazy-modelling-story |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=Vogue India |language=en-IN}}</ref> are from Coventry. Coventry broadcasters include [[Gillian Joseph]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pellegrino |first=Silvia |date=2023-05-03 |title=Who are Sky News presenters? Everything you need to know |url=https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/broadcast/sky-news-presenters-who/ |access-date=2024-11-09 |website=Press Gazette |language=en-US}}</ref> and [[Jackie Kabler]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jackie Kabler {{!}} Journalist {{!}} Presenter {{!}} Writer |url=https://www.jackiekabler.com/ |access-date=2024-11-09 |language=en-GB}}</ref> Former [[BBC Radio 2]] broadcaster [[Brian Matthew]] was a Coventrian,<ref>{{Cite news |date=2017-04-08 |title=Brian Matthew: BBC Radio 2 broadcaster dies at 88 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39541162 |access-date=2024-11-09 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref> as is former [[Sky Sports]] broadcaster [[Richard Keys]] who attended Whitley Abbey School.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Larner |first=Tony |date=2017-02-20 |title=Richards Keys' wife reveals tell-tale sign he was 'cheating' |url=https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/wife-richards-keys-reveals-tell-12628098 |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=Birmingham Live |language=en}}</ref>