Ugly sisters ugly daughters. Unlike many characters in the pantomime, the stepsisters' names are not set. After Rossini's opera, for many years they were named Clorinda and Thisbe, now these names have fallen out of use and their names have changed to suit the fashions of the times. Often they are named after flowers, illnesses or celebrities. Notable ugly sisters have been played by Terry Scott and Julian Orchard (Theresa and Julia), Brian Murphy and Yootha Joyce (Georgina and Mildred after their sitcom characters "George and Mildred"), real life sisters, Elsie and Doris Waters (Gert and Daisy after their radio sitcom characters),
Brian Murphy (writer) Pope John Paul II and investigative reports on radical Islam and the rise of Christianity in Africa. Brian Murphy (writer) Brian Murphy (born 1959) is a journalist at the Washington Post and the author of several non-fiction books, including "The New Men," a chronicle of American seminarians in Rome, and "The Root of Wild Madder," about the carpet trade in Iran and Afghanistan. In 2015, Da Capo Press published Murphy's "81 Days Below Zero," the story of World War II Army aviator Leon Crane and his solo survival in the Alaskan wilderness. He is a graduate of Boston College, where