# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/violet-carson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:29:33.217Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/violet-carson"
name: "Violet Carson"
slug: "violet-carson"
description: "Violet Helen Carson was a British actress of radio, stage and television, and a singer and pianist, who had a long and celebrated career as an actress and performer during the early days of BBC Radio, and during the last two decades of her life as the matronly Christian widow, town gossip and elderly battle-axe Ena Sharples in the ITV television soap opera Coronation Street. She was one of the original characters from the series debut in 1960 and would feature in the role for twenty years."
tagline: "British actress and singer (1898-1983)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/Publicity_Photo_of_Violet_Carson.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1898-09-01"
deathDate: "1983-12-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.01
  momentum:             17.39807520172702
  historical:           7.884569333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0141340/"
    handle:    "nm0141340"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1923594"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Carson"
    title: "Violet Carson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A4%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ڤيوليت كارسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Carsonov%C3%A1"
    title: "Violet Carsonová"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Carson"
    title: "Violet Carson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Carson"
    title: "Violet Carson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Carson"
    title: "Violet Carson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%B9_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "وایلیٹ کارسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/25f6d0a2-45b1-4a36-89b3-b8ed5beca61f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9094297"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1230639"
    title: "Violet Carson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump