Jean Alexander
Birthday
1926/10/11
Day of death
2016/10/14 (90 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Toxteth, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Also know as
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Biography
Jean Mavis Hodgkinson, known by the stage name Jean Alexander, was a British television actress. She was best known to television viewers for her long running role of Hilda Ogden in the soap opera Coronation Street, a role she played from 1964 until 1987, and also as Auntie Wainwright in the long-running sitcom Last of the Summer Wine from 1988 to 2010. For her role in Coronation Street, she won the 1985 Royal Television Society Award for Best Performance, and received a 1988 BAFTA TV Award nomination for Best Actress.
Acting
(2022) Last Of The Summer Wine: 30 Years Of Laughs
as Self (archive)
(2002) Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire
as Mrs. Santa (voice)
(1994) Willie's War
as Nanny
(1962) Heart to Heart
as Waitress
(1989) Scandal
as Mrs. Keeler
(1997) Where the Heart Is
as ---
(2004) The Paul O'Grady Show
as ---
(1992) Heartbeat
as Lily Barton
(1957) Decoy
as Gertrude Brewer
(1951) Tales of Tomorrow
as ---
(1991) Rich Tea And Sympathy
as ---
(1973) Last of the Summer Wine
as Auntie Wainwright
(1955) Television Playhouse
as Mrs. Harris
(1978) An Audience with...
as Self
(1960) Coronation Street
as Hilda Ogden
(1960) Coronation Street
as Mrs. Webb
(1999) Barbara
as Queenie Liversidge
(1973) Last of the Summer Wine
as Herself