TheOrator.Press Theatre News & Reviews Page. Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, Nicola Blackman Shares Amazing Insights Into Her Career Including Hate Mail From Racist BBC Viewers, Being Called “A Posh Wog” During A Traffic Stop, And Yet Also Being Stereotyped Whilst Doing Her Job. Confidence, Resilience And A Powerful Voice Kept Her Strong! October 2025

A Black History Month Special

Blackman Says Being Resilient, Being Clever, Being Amiable, Being Taurean, Being Her Irish Catholic Mother’s Daughter, Having Her Father’s Traits, Knowing She’s Good, And Being Lucky Enough To Have Wonderful Friends All Contribute To Her Lifetime Achievements of Survival & Success
(Video Above: Ten Years Ago At The Edinburgh Festival @edfringe (2015). (Age 59) Enjoying Some African Drumming Music & Dancing
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I Went To Very Good Schools. I Was Very Lucky. And Also I Was Brought Up In Wimbledon So I Was Solidly Middle Class.

I Had Very Little Prejudice When I Was At School. I Got More Prejudice For My Voice. People Would Go “You’re Posh Aren’t You. You’re Posh.” Several Times I Was Stopped In My Dad’s Car. My Father Had A BMW And When I Lived In Notthing Hill Gate I Got Stopped And Called And Called “A Posh Wog”. Yep!

Nicola Blackman, Stage, Screen, And Voiceover Actor

My Father Came Over From Barbados. First of All He Was Allowed To Fly In Because He Was Part of The West Indies Team. When He Came Back As An Immigrant He Had To Come In By Sea.

Nicola Blackman, Daughter of International West Indian Cricket Team Teammate, James Blackman

Are You Calling My Father A Pimp?

Nicola Blackman, Replying To A Policeman Who Asked Her If Her Father Worked With Alot of Women, Whilst Subjecting Her To A Prejudicial Traffic Stop When She Was Driving Her Father’s BMW, As A Young Newly Qualified Driver.

“But My Mother Went Thorough It”. “My Mother Was a White Woman From The North of Ireland”.

“Sale’s Off!”

This Deeply Engaging, Fiesty Yet Gracious, Tiny But Mighty, Pioneering Actor With Over Five Decades of of Performing Arts Experience, An Olivier Award Nomination And A BBTA Lifetime Achievement Award Tells Us That (Age 69) She’s Not Done Yet …And Why The Black British Theatre Awards Are Important!

“And It’s Not Fair!”

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