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.
Last Of The Summer Wine: 30 Years Of Laughs
(Self (archive))
Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire
(Mrs. Santa (voice))
Willie's War
(Nanny)
Heart to Heart
(Waitress)
Scandal
(Mrs. Keeler)
Where the Heart Is
The Paul O'Grady Show
Heartbeat
(Lily Barton)
Decoy
(Gertrude Brewer)
Tales of Tomorrow
Rich Tea And Sympathy
Last of the Summer Wine
(Auntie Wainwright)
Television Playhouse
(Mrs. Harris)
An Audience with...
(Self)
Coronation Street
(Mrs. Webb)
Coronation Street
(Hilda Ogden)
Barbara
(Queenie Liversidge)
Last of the Summer Wine
(Herself)