La Plante, Lynda: - Lynda La Plante was born in Liverpool.
In 2020 she launched the acclaimed Listening to the Dead podcast with former CSI Cass Sutherland, exploring forensic science and its impact on solving crimes..
Lynda La Plante is the first lay person to be awarded an honorary fellowship to the Forensic Science Society.
In 2008, she was awarded a CBE in the Queen\'s Birthday Honours List for services to Literature, Drama and Charity.
Lynda is an honorary fellow of the British Film Institute and was awarded the BAFTA Dennis Potter Best Writer\'s Award in 2000.
Lynda\'s original script for the much-acclaimed Prime Suspect won awards from BAFTA, Emmys, British Broadcasting and Royal Television Society as well as the 1993 Edgar Allan Poe Award.
She then turned to writing--and made her breakthrough with the phenomenally successful TV series Widows .
She trained for the stage at RADA and worked with the National theatre and RDC before becoming a television actress.
She is the author of nearly forty novels, all of which have been bestsellers.
La Plante, Lynda: - Lynda La Plante was born in Liverpool
