Marlene Sidaway

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Marlene Sidaway

Acting 89 March 12, 1937

Thornaby-on-Tees, Stockton-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England, UK

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 fo…

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Midsomer Murders

Midsomer Murders

7.5 1997 TV Show
Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice

8.2 1995 TV Show
Hustle

Hustle

7.7 2004 TV Show
Foyle's War

Foyle's War

7.9 2002 TV Show
Beautiful Thing

Beautiful Thing

7.2 1996 Movie
Heartbeat

Heartbeat

7.2 1992 TV Show
Peak Practice

Peak Practice

6.5 1993 TV Show
All Creatures Great and Small

All Creatures Great and Small

7.8 1978 TV Show
Screen Two

Screen Two

7.1 1985 TV Show
Jeeves and Wooster

Jeeves and Wooster

8.1 1990 TV Show
Me and Orson Welles

Me and Orson Welles

6.4 2008 Movie
Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators

Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators

7.2 2018 TV Show

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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

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2024
    Pigs

    Movie Gran

  2. 2023
    Allelujah

    Movie Lucille

  3. 2018
    Sink

    Movie Jean

  4. 2018
    Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators

    TV show Bo Quickly

  5. 2016
    Mum

    TV show Maureen

  6. 2015
    Cuffs

    TV show Elsie

  7. 2013
    Man Down

    TV show

  8. 2010
    Bad Night for the Blues

    Movie Grace

  9. 2008
    Me and Orson Welles

    Movie Grandmother Samuels

  10. 2007
    I Want Candy

    Movie Sobbing Woman

  11. 2006
    Venus

    Movie Hospital Nurse

  12. 2005
    Sensitive Skin

    TV show Tracy Vernon

  13. 2004
    Ready When You Are, Mr McGill

    Movie Mrs. Clegg

  14. 2004
    Hustle

    TV show Vivienne Marchant

  15. 2003
    Blackball

    Movie Fifty-Year Old Lady

  16. 2002
    Foyle's War

    TV show Mrs. Esther Harrison

More credits
  1. 2002
    Sirens

    TV show Betty

  2. 2000
    The Secret

    TV show Jinny Musgrave

  3. 1999
    Oliver Twist

    TV show Woman in street

  4. 1999
    Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll

    Movie Matron

  5. 1999
    Tom's Midnight Garden

    Movie Doris Schuster

  6. 1999
    Bad Girls

    TV show Mrs. Barker

  7. 1999
    The Dark Room

    Movie Mrs Helms

  8. 1999
    Hunting Venus

    Movie Marge Beake

  9. 1997
    Trial & Retribution

    TV show Dr Deirdre Smith

  10. 1997
    Midsomer Murders

    TV show Mrs. Bundy

  11. 1996
    Accused

    TV show Dee Yearwood

  12. 1996
    Beautiful Thing

    Movie Betty

  13. 1995
    Pride and Prejudice

    TV show Hill

  14. 1995
    The Key

    Movie Grady

  15. 1994
    Love on a Branch Line

    TV show Rita's Mum

  16. 1994
    Cadfael

    TV show Flescher's Wife

  17. 1993
    Peak Practice

    TV show Hospital Matron

  18. 1992
    Heartbeat

    TV show Nursing Officer

  19. 1991
    In Suspicious Circumstances

    TV show Kathleen Clements

  20. 1990
    Jeeves and Wooster

    TV show Pub Landlady

  21. 1989
    Testimony of a Child

    Movie Health Visitor

  22. 1987
    The Magic Toyshop

    Movie Mrs. Rundle

  23. 1986
    A Very Peculiar Practice

    TV show Clara Rudd

  24. 1986
    Lovejoy

    TV show Hospital Sister