Cast & creator
Jean Alexander
Best known for Coronation Street, Coronation Street, Heartbeat
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.
6
film credits
15
television credits
21
1951–2022 · acting roles
6.4
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (21)
Showing 21 of 21 credits
Coronation Street
Mrs. Webb
1960Coronation Street
Hilda Ogden
1960
Heartbeat
Lily Barton
1992
Last of the Summer Wine
Auntie Wainwright
1973
The Paul O'Grady Show
2004
An Audience with...
Self
1978
Tales of Tomorrow
1951
Decoy
Gertrude Brewer
1957Television Playhouse
Mrs. Harris
1955
The Afternoon Play
Enid
2003Harry
Irene Patterson
1993
Barbara
Queenie Liversidge
1999
The Phoenix and the Carpet
Lily
1997
Scandal
Mrs. Keeler
1989
I, Lovett
Elsie Mittens
1993Rich Tea and Sympathy
Granny Trellis
1991
Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire
Mrs. Santa (voice)
1999
Last Of The Summer Wine: 30 Years Of Laughs
Self (archive)
2022
The Phoenix and the Carpet
Lily
2004
Heart to Heart
Waitress
1962
Willie's War
Nanny
1994