Biography

Wilma Kennedy was born in Glasgow in 1969. Her father, Alistair, was from Tiree and her mother, Ceana Campbell, is known as a singer and music teacher. Wilma went to Bellahouston School in the city and did drama for a year in Cardiff before spending four years in Cardiff completing a degree in drama at the Welsh College of Music and Drama.

As soon as she graduated, she worked with the company Ordag agus Sgealbag which toured schools throughout Scotland presenting plays and doing drama workshops with children. Since then, she has been involved in radio and television programs and many projects, using her skills as an actress, teacher, singer, and choir director. In 1995, she won the award for best actress at a film festival in Spain. This was for her role in the first full-length film made in Gaelic, As an Eilean.

As would be expected, being from a musical family, Wilma has been singing as long as she can remember and recalls being on stage at a very young age. She won the Gold Medal of the Gaelic Society at the Dingwall Mòd in 1991. In addition to singing on her own and with the other Campbells, Wilma taught Gaelic songs for many years to students at Plockton Music School. She also has been directing the Gaelic Choir of Dundee for several years. She has held singing classes for adults and children and would visit schools in Dundee to encourage children's interest in Gaelic. She has taught Gaelic at the University of Dundee and has been heavily involved in the Dundee Highland Society. She is now a Gaelic Medium Primary Teacher for Angus Council.

Her home is in Broughty Ferry, and she is very involved in promoting Gaelic in the area.