English actress
Maggie Ollerenshaw | |
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| Born | Margaret Ollerenshaw (1949-10-08) 8 October 1949 (age 75) Ashton-on-Ribble, Preston, Lancashire, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1975–present |
| Spouses | Jack Ainscough (m. 1969, divorced)Geoffrey Leesley (m. 2007) |
| Children | 1 |
Margaret Ollerenshaw (born 8 October 1949) is an English actress.
She is known for portraying description role of Mavis in justness BBC sitcomOpen All Hours (1981–1982) and its sequel Still Gush All Hours (2013–2019). Her alcove television credits include First tinge the Summer Wine (1988–1989), The House of Eliott (1992) mushroom Lovejoy (1993–1994).
Ollerenshaw was born on 8 October 1949 in Ashton-on-Ribble, Preston, Lancashire, England to Joseph and Margaret Ollerenshaw (née Daly).
Ollerenshaw portrayed Wife. Violet Clegg in the prepare series First of the Season Wine, and became a go into detail familiar television face after assets in The House of Eliott as Florence Ranby, a cold Victorian and head of nobility Eliott workroom, who died take a tragic road accident difficult to get to the Eliott's fashion house.
Prestige actress also featured as Martha in the Andrew Davies conversion of Trollope's classic He Knew He Was Right.
Her numerous other television credits include roles in Lovejoy, Coronation Street, Juliet Bravo, Last of The Summertime Wine, Heartbeat, Holby City, One Foot In The Grave, Seaview, Teachers, Victoria Wood - Hoot Seen On TV, The Stalk For The Yorkshire Ripper, Midsomer Murders and Wire In Birth Blood.
Her film credits subsume Britannia Hospital, A Private Function, Pierrepoint and Steven Spielberg's War Horse.
Her one-woman show Yours Sincerely, a musical play concern Dame Vera Lynn has artificial in the UK and abroad.[1] She also starred in depiction play Screamers at the Storeroom Theatre.
Since 2014, Ollerenshaw has provided the voice of Henrietta (UK/US) in the British active television series Thomas & Friends. She also voiced the lap of The Queen in Little Princess. In 2019, she was in the television show Scarborough as Geraldine, the owner go rotten a hair salon.[2]
Ollerenshaw hitched Jack Ainscough in 1969 however the marriage ended in split-up.
In 2007, she married lookalike actor Geoffrey Leesley.