"I don't think TV is for me anymore - it has changed, it's formulaic and there are only certain people who are regarded as ratings people."
Dame Maureen Diane Lipman, DBE, (10 May 1946), is a British actress, writer, and comedian.
After training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and was a member of the National Theatre Company at the Old Vic from 1971 to 1973 and of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1973.
Early in her TV career, she had small roles in The Lovers, Doctor at Large, and The Evacuees, before starring in Agony as Jane Lucas and All at No 20 as Sheila Haddon.
After playing Lillian Spencer in six 2002 episodes of Coronation Street, she returned to the series in 2018 as Evelyn Plummer.
Works on TV Tropes she appeared in:
Films- Battle of Britain (1969) — Radar Operator (Uncredited Role)
- The Knowledge (1979) — Brenda Weller
- The Wildcats of St. Trinian's (1980) — Miss Higgs
- Educating Rita (1983) — Trish
- Water (1985) — Margaret Thatcher
- National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985) — Lady in Bed
- Carry On Columbus (1992) — Countess Esmerelda
- Eskimo Day (1996) — Shani Whittle
- Cold Enough For Snow (1997) — Shani Whittle
- Solomon & Gaenor (1999) — Rezl
- The Pianist (2002) — Edwarda Szpilman
- The King's Beard (2002) — Maddie
- Run for Your Wife (2012) — Exercising Woman
- Doctor at Large, episode "Saturday Matinee" (1971) — Maxine
- Sykes, episode "Fancy Dress" (1973) — Wardrobe Mistress (Uncredited Role)
- The Sweeney, 2 episodes:
- "Regan" (1974) — Annie
- "Selected Target" (1976) — Mrs. Smedley
- Play for Today, episode "Dinner at the Sporting Club" (1978) — Sharon Benson
- Jackanory, 5-episode story "The Mona Lisa Mystery" (1981) — Storyteller
- Jackanory Playhouse, episode "The Witching Hour" (1982) — Witch
- Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV, 1 episode (1985) — Ruth
- ScreenPlay, episode "Shift Work" (1986) — Julie
- Coronation Street, 321 episodes:
- 6 episodes (2002) — Lillian Spencer
- 339 episodes (2018-23) — Evelyn Plummer
- Jonathan Creek, episode "The Tailor's Dummy" (2003) — Louise Bergman
- Doctor Who, episode "The Idiot's Lantern" (2006) — The Wire
- CASUAL+Y, episode "Behind Closed Doors" (2007) — Hannah "Hayley" Lidell
- Skins, episode "Thomas" (2009) — Aunt Elizabeth
- Minder, episode "The Art of the Matter" (2009) — Anita Richardson
- Tinga Tinga Tales, episode "Why Hummingbird Hums" (2011) — Hummingbird
- Holby City, episode "Half Empty" (2011) — Bonnie Walters
- Midsomer Murders, episode "Written in the Stars" (2012) — Mags Dormer
- Plebs, 8 episodesshow list (2016-19) — Landlady
- The Crystal Maze, episode "SU2C Special" (2016) — Mumsey
