Jean Alexander
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.
Acting
TV
Coronation Street
as Mrs. Webb
1960
TV
Coronation Street
as Hilda Ogden
1960
Movie
Scandal
as Mrs. Keeler
1989
TV
Last of the Summer Wine
as Auntie Wainwright
1973
TV
Heartbeat
as Lily Barton
1992
Movie
Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire
as Mrs. Santa (voice)
1999
TV
The Paul O'Grady Show
2004
TV
Tales of Tomorrow
1951
TV
Decoy
as Gertrude Brewer
1957
TV
An Audience with...
as Self
1978
TV
Barbara
as Queenie Liversidge
1999
TV
I, Lovett
as Elsie Mittens
1993
TV
Harry
as Irene Patterson
1993
Movie
Willie's War
as Nanny
1994
Movie
The Phoenix and the Carpet
as Lily
2004
Movie
Heart to Heart
as Waitress
1962
TV
Television Playhouse
as Mrs. Harris
1955
TV
The Afternoon Play
as Enid
2003
Movie
Last Of The Summer Wine: 30 Years Of Laughs
as Self (archive)
2022
TV
Rich Tea And Sympathy
1991
TV
The Phoenix and the Carpet
as Lily
1997