Dame Maureen has been a huge hit with Corrie fans since she took on the role of Evelyn in 2018 - but it wasn't her first stint in the soap
Dame Maureen Lipman has been flooded with praise from Coronation Street viewers after she was involved in heartbreaking scenes. The actress plays Evelyn Plummer in the ITV soap and this week, fans watched as the character said a heartbreaking farewell to her beloved dog, Cerberus.
READ MORE: ITV Coronation Street's Peter Ash admits to 'mixed feelings' about Paul's diagnosis as he discovers co-star heartbreak But Maureen was an acting legend long before she set foot on the famous cobbles. The Hull-born actress trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and worked extensively in the theatre following her début in a stage production of The Knack at the Palace Theatre, Watford.
And she's set to reprise the role again, meaning another break from the Salford-based soap, as she takes the one-woman show to the West End later this year. She previously said of the news: "I am delighted to be putting Rose back on her bench for a limited run at the Ambassadors in May. I thought I could never have the power to revisit Martin Sherman’s mystical, magical deeply philosophical and wildly funny creation, but Rose is in my blood, and she has to be revived.
Some fans may best know Maureen for her time in advertising - sort of. In 1987, she was cast as the character "Beatrice Bellman" , a Jewish grandmother in a series of television commercials for British Telecom. She happily chatted on the phone to her grandson Anthony who has just failed all of his exams, except pottery and sociology. “He gets an ology and he says he's failed. You get an ology and you’re a scientist,” Beattie told him reassuringly.
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