Donna Edwards (actress)
Donna Edwards (born 1963) is a Welsh actress. Edwards is a Bafta Cymru award-winning for Best Actress. Early life and education. She was born in Merthyr Tydfil and raised in the village of Trefechan. She was a pupil at Vaynor and Penderyn High School where she took an early interest in drama. At 14 she was chosen as the lead role of Myfanwy Llewellyn in "Off to Philadelphia in the Morning", a 1978 BBC drama series about the composer Joseph Parry. She studied Welsh and Drama at Aberystwyth University and graduated in 1984. Career. In 1985  she was given the role of Miriam Ambrose in the Welsh-language TV drama "Dinas". She has appeared in other Welsh-language productions such as "Tair Chwaer" and "Yr Aduniad", although she may be most famous for playing Britt Monk in "Pobol y Cwm". She has also starred in a number of Welsh-based TV dramas in English such as "Nuts and Bolts" on ITV Wales and "Belonging" on BBC Wales. She has also appeared in the BBC comedy Gavin & Stacey. She has appeared in plays at the Royal Court, Clwyd Theatr Cymru and the Sherman in Cardiff. In 2012  she played 'Mo the Bap' in the Sky1 TV comedy drama series "Stella". She reprised this role for the second series. Two of her daughters have also acted, Lucy Borja who played Chloe Branagh in the first two series of "Young Dracula" and Sophie Borja who appeared in series four and five of "The Story of Tracy Beaker" as Roxy Wellard. In 2015 she played Yvette in the National Theatre Wales production of Mother Courage at Merthyr Tydfil Labour Club. Awards. She has won the BAFTA Cymru Best Actress Award twice - for her roles in "Tair Chwaer" and "Belonging". Personal  life. She lives in Dinas Powys, Cardiff with her husband Ray Borja, a photographer, and two children. She has two brothers twenty years her senior; John, a policeman and Ken. She is an ambassador for the learning disability charity Mencap Cymru.