CACrown ArchivesThe cinema collection
Menu
Research dossier · People & Ideas

Rosalind Richards

British actress

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
People and ideasInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ7367249 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rosalind Richards is a Welsh television actress of mixed race best known for playing the character of Kim on Pobol y Cwm. She appeared in Dau Dy a Ni, playing the character of Tiwtor, and in stage performances of Butterfly Kiss and A Small Family Business.

Richards grew up in the Rhymney Valley and attended the Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni. She graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2008. A singer, she competed in the Cân i Gymru song contest in 2008.

She appeared as a contender in the second series of Gladiators on Sky 1 in 2009. Richards has appeared in commercials, including for the National Assembly for Wales.

Editorial summary

“Rosalind Richards” enters the record as british actress. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rosalind, Richards and British can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Rosalind, Richards and British.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Rosalind Richards” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Rosalind, Richards and British provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7367249. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008 and 2009.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

Best used for
  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
Verify next

Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Rosalind Richards”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Rosalind Richards primary sources, Rosalind Richards archive and Rosalind research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Rosalind Richards”?
  2. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
Subject index

Search terms from this dossier

Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Rosalind Richards” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.