Jean Alexander
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
- Coronation Street (1960)
- Coronation Street (1960)
- Heartbeat (1992)
- Last of the Summer Wine (1973)
- An Audience with... (1978)
- The Paul O'Grady Show (2004)
- Tales of Tomorrow (1951)
- Decoy (1957)
- The Afternoon Play (2003)
- Barbara (1999)
- The Phoenix and the Carpet (1997)
- I, Lovett (1993)
- Scandal (1989)
- Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire (1999)
- The Phoenix and the Carpet (2004)
- Last Of The Summer Wine: 30 Years Of Laughs (2022)
- Heart to Heart (1962)
- Willie's War (1994)