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Maureen Lipman is a British film, theatre and television actress, columnist, and comedienne. Born into a Jewish family on 10th May 1946, in Hull. Lipman trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She married dramatist Jack Rosenthal in 1974 (he died in 2004), and has had a number of roles in his works. She has two grown-up children, Amy and Adam. She has recently adopted a basenji puppy, called Broiges.

She is also known to be a strong Labour supporter.

Work

Maureen initially did understudy in theatre before she gained increased prominence on television in the 1979 sitcom Agony, in which she played an agony aunt with a predictably troubled private life. She is particularly known for her roles as Joyce Grenfell in her biographical play and as "Beattie" (a "Jewish mother" character she named herself from the initials BT) in a long-running series of television commercials for British Telecom (BT). After that she went back to the theatre, for a few years doing Oklahoma! and wrote a column for the Good Housekeeping magazine for over 10 years. In 2002, she played a snooty landlady, Lillian in Coronation Street. In the early noughties, she has done two series on design, one for the UKTV about Art Deco and one about design in the 20th century on ITV/Sky Travel. She now currently writes a weekly column for The Guardian in the newspaper's G2 section on Fridays. She has recently done a piece in Doctor Who and, until April 29th '06 is playing Florence Foster Jenkins in the Olivier Award nominated show Glorious! at the Duchess Theatre in London's West End.

Awards and nominations

She was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Comedy Performance in 1985 (1984 season) for See How They Run.

Her show, Live and Kidding, performed at the Duchess Theatre, was nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Entertainment of the 1997 season.

She was awarded the C.B.E. (Commander of the British Empire) in 1999.

In 2003 she was nominated as Best Supporting Actress for The Pianist
(2002), at The Polish Film Awards.

Other appearances

She has appeared a few times on Just a Minute, The News Quiz, That Reminds Me Of... and Have I Got News For You.

Select Filmography

Doctor Who (2006)
Coronation Street (2002) - Lilian
The Pianist
(2002) - Mother
Eskimo Day (1996) - Shani Whittle
A Little Princess
- Miss Minchin
Educating Rita
(1983) - Trish
Agony (1979) - Jane Lucas

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