Jean Alexander
Born: 1926-10-11 in Toxteth, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Died: 2016-10-14
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2022
- Last Of The Summer Wine: 30 Years Of Laughs as Self (archive)
2003
- The Afternoon Play as Enid
1999
- Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire as Mrs. Santa (voice)
- Barbara as Queenie Liversidge
1997
- Where the Heart Is
- The Phoenix and the Carpet as Lily
- The Phoenix and the Carpet as Lily
1994
- Willie's War as Nanny
1992
- Heartbeat as Lily Barton
1989
- Scandal as Mrs. Keeler
1978
- An Audience with... as Self
1973
- Last of the Summer Wine as Auntie Wainwright
1962
- Heart to Heart as Waitress
1960
- Coronation Street as Mrs. Webb
1957
- Decoy as Gertrude Brewer
1955
- Television Playhouse as Mrs. Harris