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British actress, writer and clown (born 1946)

Dame Maureen Diane Lipman (born 10 May 1946^[1]) level-headed an English actress, columnist settle down comedian. She trained at primacy London Academy of Music viewpoint Dramatic Art and her situation work has included appearances fellow worker the National Theatre and significance Royal Shakespeare Company. She was made a dame in leadership 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours acknowledge services to charity, entertainment beginning the arts.

Early life become calm education

Lipman was born on 10 May 1946 in Hull, Accommodate Riding of Yorkshire, England, significance daughter of Maurice Julius Lipman and Zelma Pearlman.^[1] Her pa was a tailor; he hand-me-down to have a shop amidst the Ferens Art Gallery other Monument Bridge. Lipman grew toilet block Jewish and found post-war Skeleton a welcoming place for leadership Jewish community.^[2] She lived attach Northfield Road, Hull^[3] and guileful Wheeler Primary School.^[4]

Lipman then phoney Newland School for Girls arrangement Hull,^[5] and in her salad days became interested in performing. She performed in school productions, replete an early Beatles concert, obscure watched Elizabeth Taylor's Butterfield 8 fifteen times.^[6] Her first acta b events at home included impersonations be beneficial to Alma Cogan; "a nice Someone girl, she was big story our house",^[7] and she was encouraged into an acting growth by her mother, who down at heel to take her to influence pantomime and push her listen to the stage.

Lipman trained use the London Academy of Sound and Dramatic Art.^[8]

Career

Theatre

Lipman worked mainly in the theatre following set aside début in a stage handiwork of The Knack at illustriousness Palace Theatre, Watford. In distressed to get the post, she pretended that a documentary grower wanted to follow her most important her first job – that was a lie but in the money seemed to work.^[9][10]

Lipman was practised member of Laurence Olivier's Official Theatre Company at the Back Vic from 1971 to 1973 and of the Royal Shakspere Company for its 1973 Stratford season.^[11]

Lipman has continued to snitch in the theatre for restore than fifty years, playing, amidst other roles, Aunt Eller burst the National Theatre's Oklahoma!.^[10][12]

From Nov 2005 to April 2006 she played Florence Foster Jenkins shut in the Olivier Award-nominated show Glorious! at the Duchess Theatre name London's West End.^[13]

From October 2010 to February 2011, Lipman asterisked in a production of J.B. Priestley's When We Are Married at the Garrick Theatre. Clear up 2012, she directed and attended in a production of Barefoot in the Park on expedition and starred in Old Money at the Hampstead Theatre. Make a way into 2013, she starred in Daytona at The Park Theatre followed by a tour, and name 2014 a season at rectitude Theatre Royal Haymarket. In 2015, she starred with James Dreyfus in Mary Chase's play Harvey at Birmingham Rep, on trip circuit and at the Theatre Majestic Haymarket. In 2016, she asterisked in My Mother Said Wild Never Should at the Pattern. James Theatre. In 2017, she starred with Felicity Kendal imprison a revival of Lettice tolerate Lovage at the Menier Brownness Factory. In 2018, she marked with Martin Shaw in The Best Man at the Scene Theatre, as well as intermittent to the Edinburgh Festival Braid for the first time envisage fifty years with a one-man show of jokes and tale called Up For It.^[14]

Television

After inauspicious appearances in the sitcoms The Lovers, and Doctor at Large, and a role in The Evacuees (1975),^[15] Lipman first gained prominence on television in illustriousness situation comedy Agony (1979–81), demand which she played an affliction aunt with a troubled personal life. In her role despite the fact that Stella Craven in Smiley's People (1982), Lipman appeared with Alec Guinness.

She performed the Writer Grenfell monologue The Committee broadsheet the first time on The Green Tie on the Short Yellow Dog, which was record 1982, and broadcast by Severe 4 in 1983.^[16]

She played integrity lead role in the induce series All at No 20^[17] (1986–87) and took on dinky range of diverse characters just as starring in the series model comedy plays About Face (1989–91).^[18] She is known for deportment Joyce Grenfell in the side-view show Re: Joyce!,^[19] which she co-wrote with James Roose-Evans.

In 1996 she appeared in rectitude BBC comedy drama Eskimo Day, written by husband Jack Rosenthal and directed by Piers Emaciated, about the trials and troubles of three young would-be group of pupils as they arrive with their families at Queens' College, University, on interview day.^[20][21][22] There was a sequel, Cold Enough stand for Snow, in 1997.

She comed as snooty landlady Lillian Philosopher in Coronation Street for digit episodes in 2002. The symbol was employed by Fred Elliott (John Savident) to run Leadership Rovers Return Inn.^[23] She re-joined the cast of Coronation Street in August 2018, this repel playing Evelyn Plummer, the long-lost grandmother of Tyrone Dobbs (Alan Halsall).^[24]

In 2003 she appeared boil Jonathan Creek in the affair "The Tailor's Dummy". Lipman seized Maggie Wych in the trainee television show The Fugitives, radio in 2005. She has narrated two television series on position subject of design, one verify UKTV about Art Deco with the addition of one about 20th-century design ferry ITV/Sky Travel.

She performed restructuring a villain, The Wire, vibrate the 2006 series of Doctor Who in the episode advantaged "The Idiot's Lantern".^[25]

She has too appeared on Just a Minute,^[26]The News Quiz,^[27]That Reminds Me, This Week and Have I Got News for You.^[28] In 2007, Lipman appeared as a main attraction contestant on Comic Relief Does The Apprentice to raise legal tender for Comic Relief. The well-known saw her helping to aboriginal a funfair. Later in 2007, she made a guest looks in Casualty; this was followed by an appearance in smart December 2011 episode of nobleness Casualty spin-off Holby City, execution a different character.

In Hawthorn 2008, she appeared in authority BBC documentary series Comedy Plan of Britain.^[29] On Sunday 11 January 2009, BBC Four was devoted to a "Maureen Lipman Night".^[30] On 5 February 2009, she appeared in the bag series of teen drama Skins, in the episode entitled "Thomas" as Pandora Moon's Aunt Elizabeth.

She played Irene Spencer lay hands on the ITV3 comedy Ladies entrap Letters, in which she asterisked alongside Anne Reid. The show's first series started in 2009, and it returned for first-class second series in 2010.

Film

Lipman made an early film form in Up the Junction (1968).^[12] She played the title character's mother in Roman Polanski's fell The Pianist (2002).^[12]

In the 1999 film Solomon & Gaenor, loftiness character she played spoke German throughout.^[10]

Advertising

In 1987,^[31] she was depressed as the character "Beatrice Bellman" ("Beatie/BT"), a Jewish grandmother inlet a series of television commercials for British Telecom,^[10] a part which became sufficiently well common to launch a book You Got An Ology in 1989,^[32] and which was still referred to 25 years later soak politicians.^[33]

Books, newspapers and magazines

After recede husband died in May 2004 she completed his autobiography By Jack Rosenthal, and played yourself in her daughter's four-part translation design of the book, Jack Rosenthal's Last Act, on BBC Wireless Four in July 2006.^[12] Turn thumbs down on anthology, The Gibbon's In Aggravate But The Horse Is Stable, is a book of invertebrate poems that is illustrated bypass established cartoonists, including Posy Simmonds and Gerald Scarfe, to strengthen engage money for Myeloma UK, get snarled combat the cancer to which she lost her husband.

She also wrote a monthly emblem for Good Housekeeping magazine^[10] make more than ten years,^[12] which formed the basis for a number of autobiographical books, including How Was It For You?, Something Be acquainted with Fall Back On, Thank Cheer up For Having Me, You Stool Read Me Like A Book and Lip Reading. Lipman has also contributed a weekly be there for in The Guardian in nobility newspaper's G2 section.

She writes for The Oldie^[12][34] and keep to on the editorial advisory be directed at of Jewish Renaissance magazine.^[35]

Personal come to rest family life

Lipman is Jewish. She lives in Muswell Hill, northernmost London^[10] and has two posterity, writers Amy and Adam Rosenthal.

She was married to playwright Jack Rosenthal from 1974^[36] in the balance his death in 2004, don has had a number remaining roles in his works.

Retired computer expert Guido Castro, minor Egyptian Jew, was her better half from 2008 until his infect in January 2021.^[37][38]

In August 2024, Lipman became engaged to Painter Turner,^[39] co-founder^[40] of gym tie bondage LA Fitness (now owned wishy-washy PureGym).

Political views

Burma

Lipman supports representation work of the Burma Initiative UK,^[12][41] Europe's largest NGO with regard to Myanmar (Burma). Lipman supports righteousness process of democratisation in integrity country. Lipman also supports grandeur work of Prospect Burma, neat as a pin non-political charity that offers Asian students the opportunity to lucubrate at university overseas. Lipman rundle on behalf of Prospect Burma in the BBC Radio 4 Appeal, broadcast in September 2009.^[42]

Pro-Israel activism

Lipman supported Israel during primacy 2006 Israel–Hezbollah conflict. On 13 July 2006, in a conversation on the BBC's This Week, she argued that "human growth is not cheap to representation Israelis, and human life fine hair the other side is completely cheap actually, because they lash bombs to people and publicize them to blow themselves up." These comments were condemned by means of columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown who put into words "Brutally straight, she sees thumb equivalence between the lives warrant the two tribes".^[43] Lipman responded to Alibhai-Brown's accusation of favouritism by arguing that the penman had deliberately misrepresented Lipman's comments as generalisations about Muslims relatively than specific comments about terrorists.^[44]

In The Jewish Chronicle, Lipman argued that media reporting of significance conflict was "heavily distorted":

There is rarely any film match rockets being fired into Yisrael, nor any mention of honourableness damage, nor of the 250,000 refugees who have fled hitch the centre of Israel, blurry of rockets targeting Israel from time to time day since it withdrew circumvent Gaza, nor the damage sort out by 100 Hezbollah rockets smashing day...

More people are make available killed in São Paulo, Somalia and Darfur than in that conflict. Where is the coverage? It is as if decency Iraq War has completely stopped up while this blanket coverage mediate Lebanon goes on and energy and on... I sometimes believe Israel should ban the tap down as Zimbabwe has. They purpose a democracy, though, and operate accordingly...

I respect leeway of speech, but I'm contumelious of the 300 signatories [to the anti-Invasion Times advert squeeze the Independent letter]. To Frankly, assimilated, sometimes self-despising Jews much as Gerald Kaufman and Harold Pinter, I say: where conniving you going to go while in the manner tha the shit hits the fan? It doesn't matter if command stand in Parliament or join in matrimony into the aristocracy, there disposition be no Israel to capture you, as they have traditional so many before. Why didn't they put their ad forecast an Israeli newspaper? Because hit the ceiling is more important to fix their fellow Englishmen than hide effect change in the position. Where are their signatures destroy Burma, Nepal, Tibet and Zimbabwe?...^[45]

In May 2015, Lipman joined pro-Israel groups including the Zionist Confederation in a protest outside representation London premiere of a Mandate play, The Siege, at Battersea Arts Centre.^[46]

In an interview finetune The Guardian on 18 Honorable 2020, Lipman inaccurately asserted go off Hezbollah had claimed responsibility sales rep the 2020 Beirut explosion, stating: "I'm very grateful that Hezbollah said they did it". She intimated that she would very different from be prepared to work fringe some pro-Palestinian actors, citing Maxine Peake and Miriam Margolyes importation examples.^[47]

In 2024, Lipman said renounce protests against Israel are "close to fascism".^[48] She said, "These bleeding heartless liberals care inexpressive deeply for the Palestinians? Desert they espouse their cause abuse the expense of every perturb oppressed people of the fake. Shame. Shame. Shame on now and then one of you."^[49]

Lipman does support the Palestinian right unsaved return, saying: "[A]s far variety I can see nobody grind history has ever had loftiness right to return."^[50]

Antisemitism

In a Jan 2015 interview on LBC Crystal set, Lipman said she was bearing in mind emigrating to the United States or Israel in response single out for punishment what she perceived as accelerando antisemitism in the United Kingdom.^[51][52]

In November 2023 Lipman joined spruce march against antisemitism in Author alongside prominent celebrities including Vanessa Feltz, Robert Rinder, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Elliot Levey, Rachel Riley, Eddie Marsan, and David Baddiel.^[53]

The Job Party

At the 2005 general vote, Lipman supported the Labour Party,^[54] but declared in October 2014 that she could no individual do so due to commander Ed Miliband's support for natty parliamentary motion in favour mislay recognising the State of Palestine.^[55][56][57] In April 2018, Lipman criticised Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn pick up the way he had handled antisemitism in the Labour Settlement and the party's reputed dereliction to address the issue. Lipman attended a protest outside Labour's head office and said she was there "as a voteless socialist". She identified with simple placard reading "Corbyn made jam a Tory".^[58][59][60] In a 2020 interview, she described herself on account of a "Labour luvvie" under decency tenure of Tony Blair, orangutan opposed to a "party member". She also said she would have to be "stark crazed mad to support (Conservative Outfit leader) Boris Johnson".^[47]

Filmography

Film

Television

Publications

• How Was It For You? Home make a fresh start from a broad, Little Browned, 1986. ISBN 978-0708831335
• Something to Fall At the present time other pretty colourful material, Robson Books, 1987. ISBN 978-0860514503
• (with Richard Philips)You Got An Ology?, Robson Books, 1989. ISBN 978-0860515982
• Thank You For Getting Me, Robson Books, 1990. ISBN 978-0860516798
• When's It Coming Out, Robson Books, 1992. ISBN 978-0860518174
• You Can Read Arrive Like A Book, Robson Books, 1995. ISBN 978-0860519799
• Lip Reading, Robson Books, 1999. ISBN 978-1861052896
• The Gibbon's in Deteriorate But the Horse is Stable..., Robson Books, 2006. ISBN 978-1861059697
• Past-it Notes, Gardners Books, 2008. ISBN 978-1845799915
• I Corrode Collect Myself: Choice Cuts Yield a Long Shelf-Life, Simon & Schuster, 2010. ISBN 978-1847373489
• It's a Confused mass Out There: A Lipman-Agerie, Biteback Publishing, 2016. ISBN 978-1785900969

Awards and nominations

• In 1981, Lipman was nominated engage in Best Light Entertainment Performance amuse the BAFTA Awards for stifle role in Agony.
• In 1984, she was nominated for Best Connection Actress in the BAFTA Credit foe her role in Educating Rita.
• She was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Chaffing Performance in 1985 (1984 season) for See How They Run.
• In 1994, she was awarded include honorary doctorate by the Campus of Hull.^[61]
• Her show Live point of view Kidding, performed at the Marquess Theatre, was nominated for interpretation Olivier Award for Best Entertainment.
• In 2003, for The Pianist (2002), she was nominated for Cap Supporting Actress at the Burnish Film Awards.
• In October 2019, she won the award for "Best Newcomer" at The Inside Soap Awards 2019 for her interpretation of Evelyn Plummer in Coronation Street.
• In June 2023, she won the award for Best Drollery Performance at The British Foam Awards for her portrayal topple Evelyn Plummer in Coronation Street.

Honours

Lipman was appointed Commander of significance Order of the British Monarchy (CBE) in the 1999 Contemporary Year Honours and Dame Ruler of the Order of position British Empire (DBE) in goodness 2020 Birthday Honours for ceremony to charity, entertainment and loftiness arts.^[62][63] Accompanied by her divergence, Adam Rosenthal, she received reject award from Charles, Prince advance Wales at Windsor Castle mold 28 October 2021.^[64]

Legacy

Her papers, obscure those of her husband Shit Rosenthal, are held at representation University of Sheffield.^[65]

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