Editing Floella Benjamin (section)

{{Short description|British actress, presenter, and peer (born 1949)}}
{{EngvarB|date=January 2021}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name             = The Baroness Benjamin
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100|OM|DBE|DL}}
| caption          = Official portrait, 2023
| image            = Official portrait of Baroness Benjamin crop 2, 2023.jpg
| office7          = Member of the [[House of Lords]]
| status7          = Lord Temporal
| term_start7      = 26 June 2010<br/>as a [[life peer]]
| term_end7        = 
| birth_date       = {{birth date and age|1949|9|23|df=y}}
| birth_name       = Floella Karen Yunies Benjamin
| birth_place      = [[Pointe-à-Pierre]], [[Trinidad and Tobago]]<!--Don't change to [[Colony of Trinidad and Tobago]]; no place by that name ever existed; "colony of" was never part of the name of the place-->
| party            = [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrats]]
| spouse           = {{marriage|Keith Taylor|1980}}
| children         = 2
}}

'''Floella Karen Yunies Benjamin, Baroness Benjamin''' (born 23 September 1949), is a Trinidadian-British actress, singer, presenter, author and politician. She is known as presenter of children's programmes such as ''[[Play School (British TV series)|Play School]]'', ''[[Play Away]]'', ''[[Jamboree (TV series)|Jamboree]]'' and ''Fast Forward''. On 28 June 2010, Lady Benjamin was introduced to the [[House of Lords]] as a [[life peer]] nominated by the [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrats]]. In 2024, she was honoured with the [[BAFTA Fellowship]] award for her services to television.<ref>{{cite news |title=Floella Benjamin to receive BAFTA Fellowship at BAFTA TV Awards 2024 |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertainment/baroness-floella-benjamin-bafta-fellowship-tv-awards-newsupdate/ |access-date=24 April 2024 |publisher=[[Radio Times]]}}</ref>