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Dorothea Catherine M. "Thea" Selway (née Coles) (3 May 1938-10 May 2006) was the mother of Phil Selway, Radiohead's drummer.

Biography
Dorothea Catherine M. Coles was born in Bootle, Lancashire in 1938. She married Michael Selway of Bristol in West Cheshire in 1959 and they had three children. Her son, Philip James Selway, is best known as the drummer of Radiohead. Thea and her husband lived in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.

Thea died during a Radiohead tour in May 2006 aged 68. She had also celebrated her birthday recently. The band cancelled one of their dates in Amsterdam so that Selway could carry out his family duties.

The band later returned to Amsterdam in August to play the missed show. The discbox, LP, and CD release of In Rainbows mentions a dedication to Thea Selway.