Lynne Perrie

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Lynne Perrie (born April 7, 1931 in Rotherham , Yorkshire , England , † March 24, 2006 , ibid) was a British actress .

life and career

Lynne Perrie was a native of the Yorkshire region of northern England. She began her show career in the 1950s as a singer in cabarets and clubs. Various tours have taken her halfway around the world and she even appeared several times in the opening act for the Beatles . Although actually only a singer, she got an acting role as mother Mrs. Casper in the socially critical film Kes by director Ken Loach in 1969 . The amateur actress received good reviews for her appearance in Kes , which resulted in some role offers for television. Occasionally from the early 1970s and regularly since the late 1970s, she played Ivy Tilsley , a Roman Catholic factory worker on the telenovela Coronation Street .

In 1994, Perrie had her lips sprayed on without consulting the telenovela producer and lost her role in the series. The expulsion from Coronation Street brought Perrie into the limelight: she published her memoirs in the fall of 1994, in which she reported, among other things, about her alcoholism and the many affairs during her marriage. Over the next several years, Lynne Perrie became a better known name than ever, due less to her acting and more to her eccentric or blunt appearances on British television shows. From the end of the 1990s, things calmed down for the actress, who died of a stroke in 2006 at the age of 74. Perrie had been married since 1970 and had one son. Her younger brother is the comedian and actor Duggie Brown (* 1940).

Filmography (selection)

  • 1969: Kes
  • 1970: Herring and Port Wine (Spring and Port Wine)
  • 1970–1972: Queenie's Castle (TV series, 9 episodes)
  • 1971–1994: Coronation Street (TV series, 498 episodes)
  • 1972–1978: Crown Court (TV series, 8 episodes)
  • 1979: Yanks - Yesterday we were strangers (Yanks)
  • 1994: Pussy in Boots (TV movie)

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personal data
SURNAME Perrie, Lynne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotherham , Yorkshire , England , United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 2006