Who is Brian Deacon’s ex-wife Rula Lenska?

Rula Lenska is the first wife of British actor Brian Deacon.

Rula Lenska and Brian Deacon got married in 1977 but they divorced in 1987.

Rula Lenska and Brian Deacon’s marriage produced a daughter, Lara Parker Deacon.

Rula Lenska is a British actress.

Lenska mainly appears in British stage and television productions, but is best known in the United States for a series of commercials for Alberto VO5 hairspray in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Lenska also appeared as Claudia Colby on Coronation Street.

Lenska’s big break was as the Little Ladies band member “Q” in the British TV series Rock Follies (1976) and its sequel, Rock Follies of ’77, the following year.

By this time, Lenska had “discarded” her title as a Polish countess; and famously said of the decision, “In England it doesn’t count, if you’ll excuse the pun.”

Lenska’s film roles have included;

1. Soft Beds,
2. Hard Battles (1974),
3. Confessions of a Pop Performer (1975),
4. Royal Flash (1975),
5. Alfie Darling (1975),
6. It Could Happen to You (1976),
7. The Deadly Females (1976), and
8. Queen Kong (also 1976) as Luce Habit.

In the film Gypo (2005), which was the first UK feature film to be made under Dogme rules, Lenska played a Romani refugee from the Czech Republic living on a caravan site in Margate.

Lenska also starred in the independent British film Jack Says (2008), opposite her one-time EastEnders co-star Mike Reid.