Marlene Sidaway
Biography
Marlene Sidaway is an accomplished British character actress with a career spanning over six decades across television, film, and theatre. She is perhaps most widely recognized for her role as the domineering Brenda Taylor in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street (1990–1992) and as Maureen in the BBC sitcom Mum (2016–2019).
Personal Details
Movies (20)
Pigs
as Gran
2024
Allelujah
as Lucille
2023
Sink
as Jean
2018
Bad Night for the Blues
as Grace
2010
Me and Orson Welles
as Grandmother Samuels
2008
I Want Candy
as Sobbing Woman
2007
Venus
as Hospital Nurse
2006
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
as Mrs. Clegg
2004
Blackball
as Fifty-Year Old Lady
2003
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
as Matron
1999
Tom's Midnight Garden
as Doris Schuster
1999
The Dark Room
as Mrs Helms
1999
Hunting Venus
as Marge Beake
1999
Beautiful Thing
as Betty
1996
The Key
as Grady
1995
Testimony of a Child
as Health Visitor
1989
The Magic Toyshop
as Mrs. Rundle
1987
Whistling Wally
as Mary
1982
The Kiss of Death
as Christine
1977
Beloved
as Sarah
1976
TV Shows (25)
Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators
as Bo Quickly
2018
Mum
as Maureen
2016
Cuffs
as Elsie
2015
Man Down
2013
Hustle
as Vivienne Marchant
2004
Foyle's War
as Mrs. Esther Harrison
2002
Sirens
as Betty
2002
Oliver Twist
as Woman in street
1999
Bad Girls
as Mrs. Barker
1999
Midsomer Murders
as Mrs. Bundy
1997
Pride and Prejudice
as Hill
1995
Cadfael
as Flescher's Wife
1994
Peak Practice
as Hospital Matron
1993
Heartbeat
as Nursing Officer
1992
In Suspicious Circumstances
as Kathleen Clements
1991
Jeeves and Wooster
as Pub Landlady
1990
A Very Peculiar Practice
as Clara Rudd
1986
Lovejoy
as Hospital Sister
1986
Super Gran
as Miss Pinchpenny
1985
Screen Two
as Joyce
1985
Shine on Harvey Moon
as Miss Sprake
1982
Strangers
as Customer
1978
All Creatures Great and Small
as Nurse Brown
1978
Victorian Scandals
as Sarah
1976
The Ghosts of Motley Hall
as Mrs Osborn
1976