| Name |
Wendy Craig |
| Height |
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| Naionality |
English |
| Date of Birth |
20-June-1934 |
| Place of Birth |
Sacriston, County Durham, England |
| Famous for |
Acting |
She was born in Sacriston, County Durham and attended Durham High School for Girls,[citation needed] which she re-visited on 13 October 2007 when she opened a new building named after her. She began her career in British films at the end of the 1950s, and appeared in films such as The Servant (1963) and The Nanny (1965) with Bette Davis, but it was in British sitcoms of the late 1960s and 1970s which led to her becoming a household name, usually playing a scatty middle class housewife. She went from the BBC's Not in Front of the Children (1967) to ITV's ...And Mother Makes Three (1971) (in which she played a single parent), which later evolved into ...And Mother Makes Five. Then came Butterflies (1978), a comedy on BBC2, in which Craig's character was given more depth than in the earlier series.
Wendy Craig returned to drama with the series Nanny in 1981—a show she created herself—and currently plays a hospital matron in ITV's The Royal. However, she continues to be associated with comedy, having taken one of the leading roles as Annie in Brighton Belles, the UK's short-lived version of The Golden Girls.
She appeared as Reggie's mother in the BBC1 comedy Reggie Perrin (2009 Series 1, 2010 Series 2), and update of the 1970s series The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.
In 2012 she appeared as a guest in episode 12 in the Series Masterchef along with many other '70s sitcom stars.
