- Able to bend steel bars, having developed her grip with martial arts.
- Children: Zoe Mills, and Ben.
- Live Marple in Cheshire.
- Forsyth played the cello from the age of nine, but abandoned it once she went to drama school; her ability was employed when, in 2004, she was cast in the lead role in Cello and the Nightingale, a play about internationally known cellist Beatrice Harrison that premiered at York Theatre Royal and in Killing Time (2019), an off-Broadway production in which she played the instrument and wrote the music.
- Forsyth's best-known television work was Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? as Thelma Chambers / Thelma Ferris (1972-74).
- Met Brian in 1972 when she was in Adam Smith which he directed.
- Son born 1978 and daughter Zoe born 1980.
- Perhaps best known as Madge in the BBC comedy Still Open All Hours.
- Trained as a secretary before enrolling at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she won the Emile Littler Award.
- A talented musician, Brigit played the cello, sang and composed.
- Separated from her husband in 1999 but they remained friends and never divorced.
- Her grandfather was a doctor in the town and delivered her.
- In 2013, Forsyth appeared as Mrs. Jennings in Helen Edmundson's BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility and as the recurring character of Pearl in Ed Reardon's Week.
- In 2003 she made her first appearance at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in their production of High Society, directed by Ian Talbot.
- In 2013, Forsyth appeared as Mrs. Jennings in Helen Edmundson's BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility[12] and as the recurring character of Pearl in Ed Reardon's Week.
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