Acting
Jean Alexander
Birth Date
October 11, 1926
Death Date
October 14, 2016
(passed away at 90)
Place of Birth
Toxteth, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
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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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Coronation Street
Hilda Ogden
1960 • 570 episodes
The Paul O'Grady Show
2004 • 1 episode
Last of the Summer Wine
Auntie Wainwright
1973 • 186 episodes
Heartbeat
Lily Barton
1992 • 2 episodes
Television Playhouse
Mrs. Harris
1955 • 1 episode
An Audience with...
Self
1978 • 1 episode
Tales of Tomorrow
1951 • 1 episode
Decoy
Gertrude Brewer
1957 • 1 episode
The Afternoon Play
Enid
2003 • 1 episode
Harry
Irene Patterson
1993 • 1 episode
Scandal
Mrs. Keeler
1989
Barbara
Queenie Liversidge
1999 • 1 episode
Rich Tea and Sympathy
Granny Trellis
1991 • 6 episodes
I, Lovett
Elsie Mittens
1993 • 1 episode
The Phoenix and the Carpet
Lily
1997 • 5 episodes
Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire
Mrs. Santa (voice)
1999
Heart to Heart
Waitress
1962
The Phoenix and the Carpet
Lily
2004
Last Of The Summer Wine: 30 Years Of Laughs
Self (archive)
2022
Willie's War
Nanny
1994