Overview
Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Oct 11, 1926 (99 years old)
Death date
Oct 14, 2016
Jean Alexander
Known For
1h 7m
Movie
2022
Last Of The Summer Wine: 30 Years Of Laughs
This new special reveals the secrets of the long-running sitcom's...
6 Episodes
TV Show
1991
Rich Tea And Sympathy
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.