biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1925– )
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| biography:
| Actress, born in Liverpool, Merseyside, NW England, UK. After several years with repertory companies, she began to appear on television, and eventually joined the cast of the long-running Coronation Street (1964–87). Her character of the dowdy, tactless gossip, Hilda Ogden, made her a national institution and won her the Royal Television Society's Best Performance Award in 1984. Her autobiography, The Other Side of the Street, was published in 1989. |
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