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 Laughs as Self (archive)
- 2004 · The Paul O'Grady Show as
- 2002 · Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire as Mrs. Santa (voice)
- 1999 · Barbara as Queenie Liversidge
- 1997 · Where the Heart Is as
- 1994 · Willie's War as Nanny
- 1992 · Heartbeat as Lily Barton
- 1991 · Rich Tea And Sympathy as
- 1989 · Scandal as Mrs. Keeler
- 1978 · An Audience with... as Self
- 1973 · Last of the Summer Wine as Auntie Wainwright
- 1973 · Last of the Summer Wine as Herself
- 1962 · Heart to Heart as Waitress
- 1960 · Coronation Street as Hilda Ogden
- 1960 · Coronation Street as Mrs. Webb
- 1957 · Decoy as Gertrude Brewer
- 1955 · Television Playhouse as Mrs. Harris
- 1951 · Tales of Tomorrow as