Marlene Sidaway

Born: 1937-03-12 in Thornaby-on-Tees, Stockton-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England, UK

Known For: Acting

Biography

Marlene Sidaway is an accomplished British character actress with a career spanning over six decades across television, film, and theatre. She is perhaps most widely recognized for her role as the domineering Brenda Taylor in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street (1990–1992) and as Maureen in the BBC sitcom Mum (2016–2019).

Filmography

2024

Pigs as Gran

2023

Allelujah as Lucille

2018

Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators as Bo Quickly
Sink as Jean

2016

Mum as Maureen

2015

Cuffs as Elsie

2013

Man Down

2010

Bad Night for the Blues as Grace

2008

Me and Orson Welles as Grandmother Samuels

2007

I Want Candy as Sobbing Woman

2006

Venus as Hospital Nurse

2004

Hustle as Vivienne Marchant
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill as Mrs. Clegg

2003

Blackball as Fifty-Year Old Lady

2002

Foyle's War as Mrs. Esther Harrison
Sirens as Betty

1999

Bad Girls as Mrs. Barker
Oliver Twist as Woman in street
Tom's Midnight Garden as Doris Schuster
Hunting Venus as Marge Beake
The Dark Room as Mrs Helms
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll as Matron

1997

Midsomer Murders as Mrs. Bundy
Trial & Retribution as Dr Deirdre Smith

1996

Beautiful Thing as Betty

1995

Pride and Prejudice as Hill
The Key as Grady

1994

Cadfael as Flescher's Wife

1993

Peak Practice as Hospital Matron

1992

Heartbeat as Nursing Officer

1986

Lovejoy as Hospital Sister
A Very Peculiar Practice as Clara Rudd

1985

Screen Two as Joyce
Super Gran as Miss Pinchpenny

1982

Shine on Harvey Moon as Miss Sprake
Whistling Wally as Mary

1978

All Creatures Great and Small as Nurse Brown
Strangers as Customer

1977

The Kiss of Death as Christine

1976

The Ghosts of Motley Hall as Mrs Osborn
Victorian Scandals as Sarah
Beloved as Sarah