Irene Sutcliffe

Irene Sutcliffe (12 July 1924 – 3 May 2019) was an English actress. She was best known for playing Maggie Clegg in ITV's Coronation Street, a role she played from 1968 until 1975. She had a long career; her first credited TV role was in 1953 on BBC's Sunday Night Theatre and her last in 2015. In 1999, Sutcliffe was a finalist for the Audie Award for Best Female Narrator for her narration of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

Personal life
Sutcliffe was born and brought up in Burnley, Lancashire, during her early life. Her father, Fred Sutcliffe, was an ironmonger. She trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Sutcliffe died on 3 May 2019 at the age of 94.

Credits
Television Morse (season1, Episode 1) as Mrs Hornsby (6/1/1987)
 * The Royals (2015) as The King's Mother
 * Doctors (2010) as Joan Woolf in the Episode "The Tiptoe of Expectation" (Season 12, Episode 33)
 * Doc Martin (2007) as Janet in the episode "the two of us"
 * Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1997) as Helen Rance in the episode "Woman Of The Year" (Season 2, Episode 6)
 * She's Out (1995) Mrs Simms
 * Miss Marple (1987) as Miss Gorringe in the Episode "At Bertram's Hotel" (Episode 7)
 * All Creatures Great & Small (1989) as Sister Rose in the Episode "The New World" (Season 6, Episode 7)
 * Juliet Bravo (1984) as Mrs Williams in the Episode "Getting Away With It" (Season 5, Episode 4)
 * ((Dark Green by Rose Tremaine)) (1975) BBC Radio 4 Play
 * Coronation Street (1968–1974, 1975) as Maggie Clegg / Cooke, Series Regular
 * Emergency Ward 10 (1966) as Night Sister
 * Sunday Night Theatre (1953) as Desdemona in the Episode "Will Shakespeare"

Film
 * Withnail & I (1987) as Mabs Blennerhassit (Waitress)

Radio
 * Death on the Nile (BBC Radio 4 adaptation) (1997) as Mrs Van Shuyler

Stage