We’re Delighted to Announce That Jackie Clune Has Become an Ambassador for AtaLoss!
Jackie Clune is an actor and writer working in theatre, TV and film, and Vice President of Equity, the union for creative industry workers. She started out as a Karen Carpenter comedy tribute act and has since worked across many different sectors of the industry, from West End musicals to International commercial touring, fringe, subsidised theatre and cabaret, as well as TV sitcom and drama. She is known for her portrayal of the evil school secretary Mrs Lamb in the award-winning comedy series Motherland for the BBC. She has also hosted her own radio show on BBC London and has been a guest presenter on Radio 4’s Loose Ends. She is the author of four books, including a memoir on her triplets ‘I’m Just a Teenage Punchbag’, which won a Woman & Home Magazine Book of the Year prize, and ‘Give a Little Love’. She is also the manager of a women’s rugby team at Eton Manor RFC and lives in East London with her husband and four teenagers.
Jackie has known much bereavement. Her father died suddenly in 2010, her mother in 2018, and then her brother died suddenly only two years later in 2020. Since then, she he has lost three close friends. She says:
“People don’t talk about death, except in the most cliched, euphemistic ways, like ‘Sorry for your loss’ etc. So, carrying these scars of grief can feel very lonely, even though we all go through it at some point. We are all the walking wounded, and we carry the dead in our heads often silently. I hope that charities like AtaLoss can help people suffering in silence break through the stigmatizing of grief and learn to feel joy again, despite their pain.”
Jackie is available for interview about her grief. Contact: Press@ataloss.org.
Published: December, 2024
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