• Betty Alberge
  | birth_place = [[w:Manchester|Manchester]], [[w:Lancashire|Lancashire]], England ...[[w:soap opera|soap opera]] ''[[w:Coronation Street|Coronation Street]]'' from the first episode in 1960 until 1965.
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• Avis Bunnage
  | birth_place = [[Ardwick]], [[Manchester]], England '''Avis Bunnage''' (22 April 1923, [[Ardwick|Ardwick]], [[Manchester|Manchester]] – 4 October 1990, [[Thorpe Bay|Thorpe Bay]], [[Southend-on-Sea|Southend
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• Rosalie Williams
  | death_place = [[Manchester]], England ...ntures of Sherlock Holmes]]'' TV series produced by [[Granada Television]] from 1984 until 1994 alongside [[Jeremy Brett]], [[David Burke (British actor)|D
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• Kathy Staff
  ...[[w:Ashton-under-Lyne|Ashton-under-Lyne]], [[w:Greater Manchester|Greater Manchester]], England ...ut started working as an extra for [[w:ITV Granada|Granada Television]] in Manchester in the 1960s. In her autobiography, Staff revealed herself to be a [[w:Cons
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• Violet Carson
  | birth_place = [[w:Ancoats|Ancoats]], [[w:Manchester|Manchester]], England Carson was born on German Street in [[w:Ancoats|Ancoats]], [[w:Manchester|Manchester]]. Her father William Brown Carson, who was Scottish, ran a flour mill and
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• Claire Davenport
  | birth_place = [[Sale, Greater Manchester|Sale]], [[Cheshire]], England Davenport was born on 24 April 1933 in [[Sale, Greater Manchester|Sale]], [[Cheshire|Cheshire]], and began acting in 1961 with a theatre role
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• Rosalind Knight
  ...as Assistant Stage Manager at the Midland Theatre Company in [[Coventry]]. From Coventry, she moved to [[Ipswich]] Repertory Company, where [[Joe Orton]] w ....aspx?ActorID=9519|title=Rosalind Knight|website=www.aveleyman.com}}</ref> From 1999 to 2001, she co-starred in the sitcom ''[[Gimme Gimme Gimme (TV series
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• Daphne Oxenford
  ...ing comfortably ...?"'') of [[BBC]] [[radio]]'s ''[[Listen with Mother]]'' from its inception in 1950 to 1971. As spinster [[List of Coronation Street char After her marriage she moved to Manchester and appeared regularly at the [[Library Theatre]] and the [[Royal Exchange
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• Joan Benham
  ...ian|last1=McFarlane|first2=Anthony|last2=Slide|date=May 16, 2016|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=9781526111968|via=Google Books}}</ref> She was born i Joan Benham appeared in sixteen episodes of ''Upstairs, Downstairs'', from the first to the last series, as a Bellamy family friend, Lady Prudence Fai
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• Denise Coffey
  ...4&lpg=RA2-PA1924&dq ''The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition''], Manchester University Press (2013)</ref> Coffey was born three months prematurely, wei ...ater appeared in another sketch show, ''[[End of Part One]]'', which aired from 1979-1980.<ref name=":0" />
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• Beryl Reid
  ...was the daughter of [[Scottish people|Scottish]] parents and grew up in [[Manchester]], where she attended [[Withington]] and [[Levenshulme High School]]s. As a Reid died at the age of 77 from severe [[w:osteoarthritis|osteoarthritis]] and [[w:kidney failure|kidney fa
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• Melissa Stribling
  ...ef>{{cite book|last1=Hutchings|first1=Peter|title=Terence Fisher|publisher=Manchester University Press|year=2001|page=120|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b [[Category:Scottish film actresses]]
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• Hy Hazell
  ...Charlie Girl|Charlie Girl]]'' at the [[w:Adelphi Theatre|Adelphi Theatre]] from 1965 ; and as Mrs Peachum in a notable ''[[w:Beggar's Opera|Beggar's Opera] ...'; 18th June – 13th October 1951, Aldwych Theatre, London and Opera House, Manchester.
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• Jill Summers
  | birth_place = [[Eccles, Greater Manchester|Eccles]], [[Lancashire]], England | death_place = [[Salford, Greater Manchester]], England
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• Amanda Barrie
  ...rls]]'', playing inmate [[List of Bad Girls characters#Bev Tull|Bev Tull]] from the fifth series to the last, along with [[List of Bad Girls characters#Phy ...iry Godmother in ''Cinderella'' at the [[Marina Theatre]] in [[Lowestoft]] from December 2013 to January 2014.<ref>{{cite web|author=Wilf Arasaratnam |url=
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• Helen Fraser (actress)
  ...V series)|Bad Girls]]''.<ref name=walesonline/> She appeared in the series from the first episode in 1999 until the last in 2006.<ref name=bfi/> ...rian|last1=McFarlane|first2=Anthony|last2=Slide|date=16 May 2016|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=9781526111968|via=Google Books}}</ref> They later pla
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• Una Stubbs
  ...m ''[[Till Death Us Do Part]]'' (1966–1975). In 1968, as a direct spin off from the sitcom, she appeared, alongside [[Warren Mitchell]], in a series of tel ...roadcast shortly after she had a baby, her TV "mother", [[Dandy Nichols]] from ''Till Death Us Do Part'', took her place.<ref name="JoeObit">{{Cite web |t
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• Eleanor Bron
  ...n}}</ref> Before her birth, her father Sydney had legally changed his name from Bronstein to Bron, in an effort to enhance his newly founded commercial ent ...t|archive-date=20 July 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref> the charity recently formed from the merger of [[Age Concern]] and [[Help the Aged]]. All three actors gave
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• Betty Driver
  | death_place = [[Cheadle, Greater Manchester]], England ...895 |title=BBC News - Coronation Street actress Betty Driver dies, aged 91 from kidney failure. |work=BBC |date=2011-10-15 |access-date=2011-12-11}}</ref>
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• Lizbeth Webb
  ...4/Lizbeth-Webb.html|newspaper=Daily Telegraph|date=22 January 2013}}</ref> From an early age, she took singing lessons.<ref name=GuardianObit>Coveney, Mich ...binet/vivianellis/blessthebride.html |title=Profile of ''Bless the Bride'' from Record Cabinet |access-date=28 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archiv
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