Actor
Jean Alexander
October 11, 1926 · Toxteth, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
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.
Often works with
Peter Sallis
2 titles together
Last of the Summer Wine, Heart to Heart
Steve Coogan
2 titles together
Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire, Harry
Gwen Taylor
2 titles together
Heartbeat, Barbara
Geoffrey Hughes
2 titles together
Heartbeat, I, Lovett
Miriam Margolyes
2 titles together
The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Phoenix and the Carpet
Lesley Dunlop
2 titles together
The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Phoenix and the Carpet
Full filmography · 16
The Afternoon Play
as Enid
2003
Barbara
as Queenie Liversidge
1999
The Phoenix and the Carpet
as Lily
1997Harry
as Irene Patterson
1993
I, Lovett
as Elsie Mittens
1993
Heartbeat
as Lily Barton
19927.2
Last of the Summer Wine
as Auntie Wainwright
19737.2
Coronation Street
as Mrs. Webb and as Hilda Ogden
19605.4
Decoy
as Gertrude Brewer
1957Television Playhouse
as Mrs. Harris
1955
Tales of Tomorrow
cast
1951