Biografie

5. Oktober 1941 · Solihull, Warwickshire, England, Vereinigtes Königreich

Patricia Stephanie Cole

1,73 m

Playing characters older than her years.

She was awarded the O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to Drama, Elderly People, and to Mental Health Charities.

She was awarded an honorary Masters of Arts degree from the University of Bristol in 2002.

Is one of 11 Coronation Street (1960) actors to have won a Best Comedy Performance Award at the British Soap Awards; the others are John Savident, Sue Nicholls, Malcolm Hebden, Andrew Whyment, Maggie Jones, Craig Gazey, Patti Clare, Simon Gregson, Sally Dynevor and Dolly-Rose Campbell.

Mother of Emma Battcock.

I'm not knocking Downton Abbey (2010) - it contains some wonderful acting - but it's anodyne. It doesn't make the viewer ask questions.

Thinking outside the box doesn't really happen nowadays. Something like The Hour (2011) is extremely good, but it is so rare.

Writers and producers today are, in general, out of touch with what people want. The people in charge bugger it up and muck the best writers about.