Personal Services Personal Services Personal Services is a 1987 British comedy film directed by Terry Jones and written by David Leland. It is the story of the rise of a madam of a suburban brothel which caters to older men. The story is inspired by the real experiences of Cynthia Payne, the legendary "House of Cyn" madam. Christine Painter (Julie Walters) is a sexually naive waitress and single-mother who pays for her teenage son's tuition by renting flats to local call girls. She later becomes a call girl herself – joining her friend Shirley (Shirley Stelfox) and their "maid" Dolly (Danny Schiller)
Cynthia Ashperger Cynthia Ashperger Cintija Ašperger (born May 4, 1963), credited as Cynthia Ashperger in English-language roles, is a Croatian-Canadian film, television and stage actress. Born in Zagreb in 1963, she worked as an actor in Yugoslavia, including in the film "S.P.U.K.", before meeting Canadian director Allan Eastman when she was cast in the 1987 television film "Race for the Bomb". She subsequently married Eastman, and spent the next number of years working in both Canada and Yugoslavia until the outbreak of the Yugoslav Wars in 1991. She moved permanently to Canada in 1995, taking a job as a drama teacher at