Cassandra Trotter

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name = Cassandra
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portrayer = Gwyneth Strong
first = "Yuppy Love"
last = "Sleepless in Peckham"
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age = 23-37
occupation = Bank clerk
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family =
spouse = Rodney Trotter (1989-)
children = Joan
relatives = Alan (father)
Pamela (mother)
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Cassandra Louise Trotter (née Parry) (born 16 June 1966 in Blackheath , London) [See cite web
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accessyear=2006 ] is a fictional character from the BBC television sit-com "Only Fools and Horses". She was portrayed by Gwyneth Strong.

Biography

The intelligent, slightly-spoiled daughter of the owner of a successful paper merchant, Alan (Denis Lill) and his wife Pam (Wanda Ventham), Cassandra was an ambitious employee of the local bank. She made her first "Only Fools and Horses" appearance in the episode "Yuppy Love", in which she was an attendee of Rodney's adult education class. The two first met when they accidentally mixed up their raincoats in the cloak room, and met again at a disco later that night, at which Rodney's friends Mickey Pearce and Jevon unsuccessfully ask her for a dance. Rodney then bet £20 that he would be successful and, to their horror, she agreed to dance with him. Cassandra also offered to give him a lift home, and they exchanged telephone numbers. However, as he was ashamed to take her home to Nelson Mandela House, he pretended he lived in a right posh road namely The Kings Avenue.

Their relationship blossomed throughout the sixth series and in "Sickness and Wealth", Rodney announced that they were engaged; they married in the final episode of series 6: "Little Problems", after which they moved into their own flat. Her marriage to Rodney was not without its problems; after a year of being married she and Rodney split up in The Jolly Boys Outing (The Christmas episode of 1989), when he punched her boss and broke his nose. In the next episode aired Rodney Come Home(Christmas Episode 1990), they broke up again, which started the ongoing split between the pair. This split carried on throughout the duration of series 7. In The Chance of a Lunchtime Del played matchmaker between the two, reuniting them. However, the two were only together for an hour before Cassandra saw Rodney with an ex-fiancē of Del Boy's. Assuming that Rodney was cheating on her, Cassandra locked him out of the flat. They were ultimately reconciled in Three Men, a Woman and a Baby but after just getting back together they were interrupted by a phone call that Raquel had gone into labour and Del wanted Rodney to be there for the birth. The episode Miami Twice saw them trying to patch up their relationship, and in Mother Nature's Son (Only Fools and Horses) they were back together properly, and stayed together ever since. The later episodes saw them attempting to conceive a child, and Cassandra was promoted to head of small business investment at the local bank. Rodney announced that Cassandra was pregnant in "Heroes and Villains", though she miscarried in "Modern Men". They later had a daughter, Joan (named after Del and Rodney's late mother), in "Sleepless in Peckham".

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Further reading

*cite book | author=Clark, Steve | title=The Only Fools and Horses Story| publisher=BBC Books| year=1998| id=ISBN 0-563-38445-X
*cite book | author=Webber, Richard | title=The Complete A-Z of Only Fools and Horses| publisher=Orion| year=2003| id=ISBN 0-7528-6025-9