Jean Alexander
Known For: Acting
- Born
- October 11, 1926
- Died
- October 14, 2016 (90.008219178082 years old)
- Place of Birth
- Toxteth, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
- External Links
- IMDB
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.
