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Marlene Sidaway

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Marlene Sidaway
Foyle's War: Fifty Ships
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Born in Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, in the North-east of England, Marlene Sidaway originally trained as an adding-machine operator when she left school, but in 1961 she left for London to join a childrens' theatre group and studied acting at the East 15 acting school. Although she has been a familiar character player on television since the 1970s she is also the secretary of the International Brigade Society, commemorating the volunteers who enlisted to fight Fascism in the Spanish Civil War, Marlene's much older partner, David Marshall, having been a member of the Brigade. They lived together from 1990 until his death in 2005.
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Known for

Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle in Pride and Prejudice (1995)
Pride and Prejudice
8.8
TV Mini Series
  • Hill
  • Hill, the housekeeper
Sensitive Skin (2005)
Sensitive Skin
7.9
TV Series
  • Tracy Vernon
Joanne Froggatt in Bad Girls (1999)
Bad Girls
7.9
TV Series
  • Mrs. Barker
Me and Orson Welles (2008)
Me and Orson Welles
6.7
  • Grandmother Samuels
  • 2008

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Actress

  • Allelujah (2022)
    Allelujah
    • Lucille
    • 2022
  • Angela Lonsdale, Eva Alexander, and Tom Frederic in Doctors (2000)
    Doctors
    • Maud Southcliffe
    • Leonora Haversham
    • Dilys Cuthbert ...
    • TV Series
    • 2001–2021
  • Mark Benton and Jo Joyner in Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators (2018)
    Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators
    • Bo Quickly
    • TV Series
    • 2020
  • In the Long Run (2017)
    In the Long Run
    • Dot
    • TV Series
    • 2019
  • Guy Henry in Holby City (1999)
    Holby City
    • Josie O'Grady
    • May Warner
    • TV Series
    • 2004–2019
  • Lesley Manville in Mum (2016)
    Mum
    • Maureen
    • TV Series
    • 2016–2019
  • Martin Herdman in Sink (2018)
    Sink
    • Jean
    • 2018
  • Martin Clunes in Doc Martin (2004)
    Doc Martin
    • Mary Rawlings
    • TV Series
    • 2017
  • Rik Mayall, Gwyneth Powell, Greg Davies, Jeany Spark, Mike Wozniak, and Roisin Conaty in Man Down (2013)
    Man Down
    • Old Lady on Bus
    • TV Series
    • 2016
  • Kenneth Branagh in Wallander (2008)
    Wallander
    • Maja Hahne
    • TV Series
    • 2015
  • Amanda Abbington, Shaun Dooley, Ashley Walters, Alex Carter, and Jacob Ifan in Cuffs (2015)
    Cuffs
    • Elsie
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2015
  • Robert Vaughn, Robert Glenister, Adrian Lester, Marc Warren, and Jaime Murray in Hustle (2004)
    Hustle
    • Vivienne Marchant
    • TV Series
    • 2012
  • Bad Night for the Blues
    • Grace
    • Short
    • 2010
  • Russell Tovey, Lenora Crichlow, and Aidan Turner in Being Human (2008)
    Being Human
    • Older Woman
    • TV Series
    • 2010
  • Nikki Amuka-Bird, Max Beesley, Julie Graham, Paterson Joseph, Phillip Rhys Chaudhary, Zoë Tapper, and Chahak Patel in Survivors (2008)
    Survivors
    • Helen
    • TV Series
    • 2010

Producer

  • No Time for Memoirs (2017)
    No Time for Memoirs
    • executive producer
    • 2017
  • In the Company of Joan (2016)
    In the Company of Joan
    • executive producer
    • 2016

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  • Alternative name
    • Marlene Sideaway
  • Born
    • 1937
    • Thornaby-on-Tees, Stockton-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England, UK
  • Other works
    She acted in Sandy Wilson's musical, "The Boy Friend", at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England with Jean Boht, Yvonne Edgell, Jane Briers, Brian Protheroe, Martin Duncan, Pep and Lolita (played themselves) in the cast.

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    Best known for playing cleaners of employers who are murdered and finally getting murdered herself at last.

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