Jean Alexander
English actress (1926-2016) · United Kingdom · On the map · Actors · Died at 90
Jean Margaret Hodgkinson, known by the stage name Jean Alexander, was a British actress.
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Love with the Proper StrangerFilm, Charlene (uncredited)1955
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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 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.
