Editing Floella Benjamin (section)

==Entertainment==
Benjamin has appeared in ''[[Hair (musical)|Hair]]'', ''[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]'', ''[[The Black Mikado]]'' and ''The Husband-In-Law'', as well as several [[pantomime]]s. On screen, she appeared in the 1975 horror film ''[[I Don't Want to Be Born]]'' and starred in the 1977 film ''[[Black Joy (film)|Black Joy]]''. Her television credits include ''[[Angels (TV series)|Angels]]'', ''[[Within These Walls]]'', ''[[Crown Court (TV series)|Crown Court]]'', ''[[The Gentle Touch]]'' and ''[[Dixon of Dock Green]]''. She appeared as Juniper in the first episode of ''[[Bergerac (TV series)|Bergerac]]'' (1981).<ref>{{Citation |title="Bergerac" Picking It Up (TV Episode 1981) |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0521657/?ref_=ttep_ep1 |access-date=2017-06-09}}</ref>

Benjamin read two stories for the ''[[Story Teller (Marshall Cavendish)|Story Teller]]'' magazine series (1983 and 1984). She was chief executive of Floella Benjamin Productions Ltd, which had produced television programmes since 1987 and was dissolved in 2014. She had done the voice work of "U" and "PG" [[Video Standards Council]] information clips. In 2006, she appeared in an episode of ''[[The Line of Beauty (TV series)|The Line of Beauty]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Credits – Floella Benjamin |url=http://www.floellabenjamin.com/about-me/credits/ |access-date=2022-03-04 |language=en-GB}}</ref>

Between 2007 and 2011, she guest-starred in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' spin-off ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' as Professor Rivers of the Pharos Institute in the stories ''[[The Lost Boy (The Sarah Jane Adventures)|The Lost Boy]]'', ''[[The Day of the Clown]]'', ''[[The Eternity Trap]]'', and ''[[Sky (The Sarah Jane Adventures)|Sky]]''. She also narrated three "making-of" documentaries on the ''Doctor Who'' DVD boxed set ''The Black Guardian Trilogy''.<ref>[http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/1097073 Floella Benjamin biography and credits], BFIScreenonline.org; accessed 21 March 2014.</ref> In 2007, she played a small role in the British comedy ''[[Run Fatboy Run]]''.

She sings with Damn Right I Got The Blues, a rock and blues band, and has said, "When I sing I am in my element."<ref name=aboutme2>{{cite web |title=Floella Benjamin – About Me 2 |url=http://www.floellabenjamin.com/www.floellabenjamin.com/About_me_2.html |publisher=floellabenjamin.com |access-date=27 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120505224407/http://www.floellabenjamin.com/www.floellabenjamin.com/About_me_2.html |archive-date=5 May 2012}}</ref>

She featured in the 2023–24 [[New Year's Eve in London|New Year's Eve fireworks display in London]], reciting the poem "In This World" by the late [[Benjamin Zephaniah]] as part of the segment celebrating the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the ''[[HMT Empire Windrush|Empire Windrush]]''.