etta tavernier, played by jacqui gordon-lawrence, appears between 1990 and 1992. etta also makes a guest appearance in 1994, visiting members of the tavernier family who remain in the serial. also religious like her husband, etta is portrayed as a career woman; her most prominent storylines concern marital problems and crises of faith. etta was gordon-lawrence's first television role. leroy golding who was awarded the part of celestine tavernier claims that his inexperience helped rather than hindered the tavernier family to gel together as it created a sense of "camaraderie" among them; he suggests that he and his screen wife gordon-lawrence "played very well off each other".