As Actor
Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire
1999
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Jean Alexander
Acting
Birth Date
October 11, 1926
Place of Birth
Toxteth, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Date of Death
October 14, 2016
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.
