![]() ![]() In August 2010, Baron appeared in an episode of Agatha Christie's Marple on ITV. She appeared on screen in May and June 2016. On 8 April 2016, it was announced that Baron would return to EastEnders once again, alongside John Partridge, who portrayed her on-screen son Christian Clarke. She appeared regularly in the series from November 2008 to February 2009. In September 2008, it was announced that Baron would be returning to EastEnders. īaron briefly appeared in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders in 2006 as Linda Clarke, the mother of Jane Beale, played by Laurie Brett. ![]() īaron continued to work regularly on television and the stage in the 2000s, with credits including Fat Friends (2000–2005), The Bill (2000), Doctors (2000, 2006, 2010, 20), Peak Practice (2001), Holby City (20), Down to Earth (2005), Rome (2005) and Casualty (2009). In 1997, Baron played the minor part of Renee Turnbull in Coronation Street and took guest roles in dinnerladies (1998), The Mrs Bradley Mysteries (1998), Sunburn (1999), Nancherrow (1999) and Goodnight Sweetheart (1999). Baron then went on to star in the children's television series Come Outside (1993–1997) playing Auntie Mabel, an everyday woman living in a bungalow set in Denham, who flew around on various adventures in her spotted aeroplane with her dog Pippin, educating children on how things are created and where they come from by visiting various factories or farms and even looking at wildlife in zoos. In the 1990s, Baron played Auntie Pat in five episodes of the ITV sitcom The Upper Hand (1992–1993). Baron also appeared in the 1987 Christmas special of The Two Ronnies and appeared in the BBC Two comedy series KYTV. In 1986, she acted in a party political broadcast for the SDP–Liberal Alliance. She had a small part in Minder, and played the middle-aged temptress Lily Bless'er in the Last of the Summer Wine episode Getting Sam Home. In the 1970s and 1980s, Baron co-starred in the ITV sitcom Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt and the BBC sitcom A Roof Over My Head with Brian Rix. They overcame this by padding her clothes. The script asked for a character "of ample proportions", although she was in fact a slim build at the time. īaron is best known for playing Nurse Gladys Emmanuel in the BBC sitcom Open All Hours with Ronnie Barker and David Jason which ran for four series in 1976, 1981 to 1982 and in 1985, and was subsequently voted eighth in Britain's Best Sitcom in 2004. She appeared in front of the cameras as Captain Wrack in the 1983 serial Enlightenment, and again in 2011 in " Closing Time" as Val. She was heard as a singer in the 1966 serial The Gunfighters. Baron was cast in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who three times. She also alternated with Annie Ross as the resident singer on Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life (1965). Baron appeared on television in BBC-3 (1965), a series in the vein of That Was the Week That Was, involving some of the same performers. Career Television īaron's early television roles included small parts in Crossroads (1978), Up Pompeii (1970), Z-Cars (1971), and the British horror film Hands of the Ripper (1971). Early in her career, she appeared in repertory theatre and several West End venues. She attended Flixton Girls School in Urmston and then trained as a dancer at the Royal Academy of Dance. By the age of five, she was attending local ballet classes, and soon began appearing on stage. Her father, Cyril, was a painter and decorator. Lilian Ridgway was born on 24 March 1939 in Urmston, Lancashire. She is best known for having played Nurse Gladys Emmanuel in the BBC sitcom Open All Hours (1976–1985) and its sequel, Still Open All Hours (2013–2016), Auntie Mabel in the award-winning children's series Come Outside (1993–1997), and the part of Linda Clarke in EastEnders in 2006 and from 2008 to 2009, with a brief return in 2016. Lilian Ridgway (24 March 1939 – 5 March 2022), known professionally as Lynda Baron, was an English actress and singer. ![]()
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