Carla Mendonça is an actor best known as Sophie Johnson in the children’s sitcom My Parents Are Aliens and Orla Crawshaw in Coronation Street. She also played Mrs Fitzgerald in the BBC series So Awkward, was in the films Hilary and Jackie and Common People, and has appeared in The Young Ones, The Lenny Henry Show, Pushing up Daisies, Coming Next, KYTV, Bottom, 32 episodes of Motormouth, French and Saunders, 26 episodes of The Legends of Treasure Island, Wycliffe, Smith and Jones, Harry Enfield and Chums, Baddiel’s Syndrome, My Dad’s the Prime Minister, Roman’s Empire, provided the female voices for 40 episodes of Big Barn Farm, Great Night Out and So Awkward. Carla Mendonça is guest number 223 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .

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