Jean Alexander
Birthday: 1926-10-11
Place of Birth: Toxteth, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
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.
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Last Of The Summer Wine: 30 Years Of Laughs
This new special reveals the secrets of the long-running sitcom's extraordinary success. Helped by f...
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Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire
Robbie the Reindeer arrives at the North Pole, ready to take his place as navigator on Santa's Chris...
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Willie's War
When 10-year-old Willie is evacuated from the East End of London, he is chosen by Zander, 13-year-ol...
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Scandal
An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with...
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The Phoenix and the Carpet
Four Edwardian children find a strange egg in their newly-arrived Persian carpet. It hatches into a ...
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Heart to Heart
A television interviewer is determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister....
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