Best known for her long-running role on the British soap, "Coronation Street" (1960), as Hilda Ogden. Lord Laurence Olivier formed a fan club in honor of Hilda Ogden.
She was awarded the Royal Television Society Award in 1985 for her role on "Coronation Street."
She was voted "Greatest Soap Opera Star of All Time" in the UK TV Times in September 2005.