Maureen Lipman

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Mauden Diane Lipman (born 10 May 1946) is an English film, theatre, and television actress, columnist, and comedian.

Early life and education

Lipman was born in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, and the son of Maurice Julius Lipman and Zelma Pearlman. Her father, a tailor, used to have a store between the Ferens Art Gallery and Monument Bridge. Lipman grew up Jewish and found Hull, a Jewish town, as a welcoming place for the Jewish community. She grew up on Northfield Road, Hull, and attended Wheeler Primary School.

Lipman then went to Newland School for Girls in Hull and became interested in performing as a youth; she appeared in school plays, attended an early Beatles concert, and watched Elizabeth Taylor's Butterfield 8 times. Alma Cogan's first performances at home included impersonations of Alma Cogan; "a nice Jewish girl, she was huge in our household"; and her mother, who used to bring her to the pantomime and bring her to the stage.

Lipman studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Personal and family life

Lipman is Jewish. Amy and Adam Rosenthal live in Muswell Hill, north London, and have two children, writers Amy and Adam Rosenthal.

She worked with dramatist Jack Rosenthal from 1974 to his death in 2004, and she has appeared in a number of films.

Guido Castro, an Egyptian Jew, was her mentor from 2008 to his death in January 2021.

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Career

Following her debut in a stage production of The Knack at the Palace Theatre in Watford, Lipman spent extensive time in the theatre. She pretended that a documentary filmmaker wanted to follow her in his first work, but it turned out to be true.

She appeared in Laurence Olivier's National Theatre Company from 1971 to 1973, as well as the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1973 to 1973.

Aunt Eller in the National Theatre's Oklahoma has been performing in the theatre for more than 30 years, including, among other roles.

Florence Foster Jenkins was a member of the Olivier Award-nominated show Glorious from November 2005 to April 2006. In London's West End, the Duchess Theatre is on display.

Lipman appeared in a production of J.B. Priestley's When We Are Married at the Garrick Theatre from October 2010 to February 2011. In 2012, she produced and appeared in Barefoot in the Park on tour and appeared in Old Money at the Hampstead Theatre. She appeared in Daytona in 2013, followed by a tour, and in 2014, a season at The Theatre Royal Haymarket opened in Daytona. She appeared in James Dreyfus' play Harvey in Birmingham, both on tour and at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 2015. At the St. James Theatre, she appeared in My Mother Said I Never Should Have a Child. She appeared with Felicity Kendal in a revival of Lettice and Lovage at the Menier Chocolate Factory in 2017. In 2018, she appeared in The Best Man at the Playhouse Theatre, as well as returning to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the first time in 50 years with a one-woman show of jokes and storytelling called Up For It.

Lipman first appeared in the sitcoms The Lovers, Doctor at Large, and The Evacuees (1975), in which she portrayed an agony aunt with a difficult personal life. Lipman appeared with Alec Guinness in her role as Stella Craven in Smiley's People (1982).

For the first time on The Green Tie on the Little Yellow Dog, which was captured 1982 and broadcast by Channel 4 in 1983, she appeared on the Joyce Grenfell monologue The Committee.

When starring in the series of comedy plays About Face (1989–91), she played the lead role in the television series All at No 20 (1986–87) and played a variety of characters. Joyce Grenfell appeared in Re: Joyce!, which she co-wrote with James Roose-Evans.

In 2002, she appeared as snooty landlady Lillian Spencer in Coronation Street for six episodes. Fred Elliott (John Savident) was hired by Fred Elliott (John Savident) to direct The Rovers Return Inn. In August 2018, she rejoined the cast of Coronation Street, this time as Evelyn Plummer, Tyrone Dobbs' long-lost grandmother (Alan Halsall).

In the children's television show The Fugitives, Lipman played Maggie Wych. She has produced two television series on design, one for UKTV about Art Deco and one for ITV/Sky Travel about 20th-century architecture. In 2003, she appeared in Jonathan Creek's "The Tailor's Dummy."

In the episode "The Idiot's Lantern," she appeared as a villain named "The Wire."

She has appeared on Just a Minute, The News Quiz, That Reminds Me, This Week, and Have I Got News for You. Lipman appeared on Comic Relief in 2007. Does the Apprentice have to raise funds for Comic Relief? She appeared on the show that she was assisting with the running of a funfair. She made a guest appearance in Casualty in 2007 and was followed by a stint in a December 2011 episode of the Casualty spin-off Holby City as a different character.

She appeared in the BBC documentary series Comedy Map of Britain in May 2008. BBC Four was devoted to a "Maureen Lipman Night" on Sunday 11 January 2009. She appeared in the third series of teen drama Skins in the episode "Thomas" as Pandora Moon's Aunt Elizabeth on February 5, 2009.

She appeared in two shows on The Paul O'Grady Exhibition, one alongside Julie Walters to promote her most recent book Past-It Notes, and the other to discuss her appearance as the wheelchair-bound Madame Armfeldt in the Sondheim's musical A Little Night Music. She also spoke briefly about her appearance as Irene Spencer in the ITV3 comedy Ladies of Letters, in which she co-leads alongside Anne Reid. The show's first series debuted in 2009 and was revived in 2010 in a second series.

In Up the Junction (1968), Lipman made his first film appearance. In Roman Polanski's film The Pianist (2002), she played the title character's mother.

The woman she played in the 1999 film Solomon & Gaenor spoke Yiddish all throughout.

In 1987, she was portrayed as the character "Beatrice Bellman" ("Beatie/BT"), a Jewish grandmother in a string of television commercials for British Telecom, a position that was still popular enough to start a book You Got An Ology, which was then referred to by politicians 25 years ago.

She finished By Jack Rosenthal's autobiography by May 2004 and appeared in her daughter's four-part adaptation of the novel, Jack Rosenthal's Last Act on BBC Radio Four in July 2006. In Decline's Anthology, The Gibbons However, The Horse Is Stable is a collection of animal poems illustrated by established cartoonists, including Posy Simmonds and Gerald Scarfe, to raise funds for Myeloma UK to fight the disease in which she lost her husband.

She also wrote a monthly column for Good Housekeeping magazine for over ten years, which helped with the development of several autobiographical books, including How I Was It For You, Something To Fall Back On, Thank You For Having Me, You Can Read Me Like A Book, and Lip Reading. In the newspaper's G2 section, Lipman has also contributed to a weekly column.

She writes for The Oldie and sits on the editorial board of Jewish Renaissance magazine.

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Awards and nominations

• She was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance in 1985 (1984 season) for See How They Run.
• She was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Hull in 1994.
• Her show, Live and Kidding, performed at the Duchess Theatre, was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Entertainment.
• In 2003, for The Pianist (2002), she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Polish Film Awards.
• In October 2019, she won the award for "Best Newcomer" at The Inside Soap Awards 2019 for her portrayal of Evelyn Plummer in Coronation Street.