Jean Alexander

Actress

Born: October 11, 1926 (90 years old)

Died: October 14, 2016

Place of birth: Toxteth, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK

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.

Filmography (6)

• Heartbeat (1992, ★ 7.2)
• Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire (1999, ★ 6.1)
• Scandal (1989, ★ 6)
• Decoy (1957, ★ 6.7)
• Tales of Tomorrow (1951, ★ 6.4)
• Last of the Summer Wine (1973, ★ 7.1)