Cherie Lunghi (born April 4, 1952 in London) is an actress. She is the mother of Nathalie Lunghi. Her father (Alessandro Lunghi) was Italian and her mother was English. In 1995 she was placed 92nd in the "100 Sexiest Women in the World" by the publishers of FHM magazine.
In addition to her varied film and television work, she is perhaps best known for appearing in a long-running advertising campaign on British television for Kenco coffee in the 1990s.
Perhaps her best known film role was as Guinevere in the 1981 film Excalibur.
Has one daughter with film director Roland Joffé, Nathalie Lunghi (full name Nathalie Kathleen Lunghi-Joffé), born 26 August 1986.
Brought up by her mother and aunts in west London when her Italian father abandoned the family,.
Cherie played Hedvig in The Wild Duck and Alice in Alice in Wonderland on BBC radio while still a pupil at the Arts Educational School in Hyde Park.
Leading ingénue at the Royal Shakespeare Company in the late 70s (Perdita, Cordelia, Viola), then left to portray Guinevere in Excalibur (1981) and pursue a film career.
Better known today for a series of British instant coffee ads (Kenco).
