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Jean Alexander
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…
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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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2022
Last Of The Summer Wine: 30 Years Of Laughs
Movie Self (archive)
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2004
The Paul O'Grady Show
TV show
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2004
The Phoenix and the Carpet
Movie Lily
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2003
The Afternoon Play
TV show Enid
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1999
Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire
Movie Mrs. Santa (voice)
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1999
Barbara
TV show Queenie Liversidge
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1997
The Phoenix and the Carpet
TV show Lily
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1994
Willie's War
Movie Nanny
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1993
Harry
TV show Irene Patterson
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1993
I, Lovett
TV show Elsie Mittens
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1992
Heartbeat
TV show Lily Barton
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1991
Rich Tea and Sympathy
TV show Granny Trellis
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1989
Scandal
Movie Mrs. Keeler
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1978
An Audience with...
TV show Self
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1973
Last of the Summer Wine
TV show Auntie Wainwright
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1962
Heart to Heart
Movie Waitress
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1960
Coronation Street
TV show Mrs. Webb
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1957
Decoy
TV show Gertrude Brewer
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1955
Television Playhouse
TV show Mrs. Harris
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1951
Tales of Tomorrow
TV show
