Sophie Langham Sophie Langham Sophie Langham is an English actress. She is most famous for playing one half of Walford's first lesbian couple, in the popular BBC soap opera, "EastEnders". Her character, Binnie Roberts, made her first appearance in 1994 and left in 1995. During her time on the show Langham's character and her on-screen girlfriend Della Alexander (Michelle Joseph) made headlines in the British press when "EastEnders" screened its first lesbian kiss. "EastEnders" added to the controversy by making Della and Binnie a mixed-race couple. Coincidentally, Sophie Langham and Michelle Joseph both attended Rose Bruford College within a year of each
Binnie Kirshenbaum Binnie Kirshenbaum Binnie Kirshenbaum is an American novelist and short story writer. She is professor and chair of the Writing Program at Columbia University School of the Arts. Born in 1964, Kirshenbaum received a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from Brooklyn College. She has been a professor of Fiction Writing at Columbia University School of the Arts since 2003. Kirshenbaum published her first book of ten short stories, "Married Life and Other True Adventures", in 1990. According to "Publishers Weekly", "Things to Do" is about a wife who discovers she married not for love, "but for a good