Paula Ann Triplett is a former British actress. She is best known for her role as the teenager Claire Scott in the award winning BBC school drama Grange Hill

Grange Hill

Grange Hill is a British television drama series originally made by the BBC. The show began in 1978 on BBC1 and was one of the longest running programmes on British television...

between 1981 and 1985, her final appearance being in the 1985 Christmas Special.

She was featured on the cover of the magazine Mayfair

Mayfair (magazine)

Mayfair is a British adult magazine for men. Founded in 1965, it was designed as a response to U.S. magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse, which had recently launched in the UK. For many years it claimed the largest distribution of any men's magazine in the UK.-Fisk Publishing era:Mayfair was...

in March 1988 (vol.23, no.3) and posed topless for one of that issue's pictorials.

After briefly appearing in the popular BBC comedy Only Fools and Horses

Only Fools and Horses

Only Fools and Horses is a British sitcom, created and written by John Sullivan. Seven series were originally broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom between 1981 and 1991, with sporadic Christmas specials until 2003...

 and the ITV police drama The Bill

The Bill

The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...

, Bland's last role was in 1994 in the short-lived comedy "Health and Efficiency".