Marlene Sidaway

Actor · born 12 March 1937 · Thornaby-on-Tees, Stockton-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England, UK

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).

Where to start: Beautiful Thing (1996).