Jean Alexander
October 11, 1926 (98 years old) in Toxteth, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2022 ·Last Of The Summer Wine: 30 Years Of Laughsas Self (archive)
- 2004 ·The Paul O'Grady Showas
- 2002 ·Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fireas Mrs. Santa (voice)
- 1999 ·Barbaraas Queenie Liversidge
- 1997 ·Where the Heart Isas
- 1994 ·Willie's Waras Nanny
- 1992 ·Heartbeatas Lily Barton
- 1991 ·Rich Tea And Sympathyas
- 1989 ·Scandalas Mrs. Keeler
- 1978 ·An Audience with...as Self
- 1973 ·Last of the Summer Wineas Auntie Wainwright
- 1973 ·Last of the Summer Wineas Herself
- 1962 ·Heart to Heartas Waitress
- 1960 ·Coronation Streetas Hilda Ogden
- 1960 ·Coronation Streetas Mrs. Webb
- 1957 ·Decoyas Gertrude Brewer
- 1955 ·Television Playhouseas Mrs. Harris
- 1951 ·Tales of Tomorrowas