Close dialogue 1/21 Next image Previous image Toggle caption Stephanie Cole, star of television, radio and stage, has died. Here are her career highlights, from Doc Martin to Coronation Street Stephanie Cole photographed while collecting her OBE in 2005. In The Mousetrap as Miss Casewell, 1968, at the Amabassadors, London As Dr Beatrice Mason in the BBC television series Tenko in 1981 with Jean Anderson, left David Jason as Granville and Stephanie Cole as Mrs Delphine Featherstone, aka The Black Widow in a scene from the television sitcom Open All Hours, 1985 In the role of Muriel in Soldiering On, one of the half-hour monologues in the series Talking Heads, written by Alan Bennett, 1988 eel Magnolias with Janine Duvitski as Annelle, at the Lyric Theatre, London in 1989 As Betty with Neil Morrissey playing Markin in A Passionate Woman by Kay Mellor – at the Comedy Theatre 1994 In Quartet with Donald Sinden at The Albery Theatre, 1999 In BBC’s Waiting For God with Graham Crowden.
She won Best TV Actress at the 1992 British Comedy Awards for the role Stephanie Cole and Elaine Donnelly in Peter Nichols’s So Long Life at the Tobacco Factory, Bedminster, 2000 gth Theatre As Joan Norton, aunt of Martin Clunes’ character Dr Martin Ellingham in Doc Martin in 2004 Cole with Marcia Warren in ‘Housewife 49’, a 2006 television film written by Victoria Wood As Mrs Higgins with Peter Eyre as Colonel Pickering and Rupert Everett as Professor Henry Higgins in Pygmalion at the Chichester Festival Theatre, 2010 As Nesta in the TV series Man Down, with Greg Davies and Gwyneth Powell via Goodwin in Coronation Street in 2013, a role she played for two years. Pictured with Roy Cropper (David Neilson) and Hayley Cropper (Julie Hesmondhalgh) As Doris in A Cream Cracker Under the Settee, Talking Heads, Theatre Royal, Bath, 2015 n All Hours with Sally Lindsey and Nina Wadia, 2016 In King Lear at Bristol Old Vic, 2016, as the Fool. Inside No 9 entitled Dead Line with Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, 2018 .DB/Alamy As Aunt Ann Walker with Suranne Jones in the BBC series Gentleman Jack, 2018 /HBO Cabin Pressure radio 4 sitcom.
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