Wendy Craig

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Anne Gwendolyn Craig (born 20 June 1934) better known as Wendy Craig, is an English actress best known for her appearances in the sitcoms "Not in Front of the Children."...And Mother Makes Three And Butterflies

She appeared as Matron in the television series The Royal (2003–2011).

Early life

Anne Gwendolyn Craig was born in Sacriston, County Durham, on June 20, 1934, and was the daughter of farmer George Craig and his wife Anne (née Lindsay). She attended Durham High School for Girls, first as a day pupil and then as a boarder, which she revived in October 2007 to open a new building after her. She passed the 11+ exam and moved to Darlington High School. When she was 12 years old, the family moved to Picton, North Yorkshire, where she attended nearby Yarm Grammar School. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and then settled in the Royal Albert Hall, London.

In 1956, she appeared in the West End alongside Robertson Hare in John Dighton's Farce Man Alive!

Personal life

She was married to Jack Bentley, a trombonist, scriptwriter, and journalist from 1955 to 1994. She had two sons during her time with Bentley: Alaster (later principal oboist for the Birmingham Royal Ballet Sinfonia) and (as a result of an affair with John Mortimer), Ross, an IT consultant. Wendy Mortimer visited Mortimer in 2004 to announce that their affair had resulted in a son, then 42. She was on the scene of the leak during a Midsomer Murders episode; series actor John Nettles later said one of his favorite memories of the film was finding a copy of The Daily Telegraph on set during that filming with a headline that revealed the information.

Craig grew up and died in Cookham, Berkshire, in the 1990s. In the 2020 New Year Honours for services to drama and charity, she was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

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Career

In an episode of the Danger Man series "The Gallows Tree" (1961), Patrick McGoohan appeared on "One of her early TV appearances was "The Gallows Tree" (1961). Craig appeared in British films such as The Servant (1963) and The Nanny (1965), but it was her appearance in British sitcoms from the 1960s to 1970s that made her become a household name, often portraying a middle class housewife. She went from the BBC's Not in Front of the Children (1967-1970) to ITV's...And Mother Makes Three (1971–1973), in which she starred as a single parent until its sequel...And Mother Makes Five (1974-1976). On BBC2, Butterflies (1978–1983), a hit comedy, was introduced by then.

Craig brought back drama with the series Nanny (1981–1983), a film she created and wrote some episodes as Jonathan Marr, a pseudonym she used before in writing episodes of...And Mother Makes Five. She appeared in The Royal's (2003–2011) on ITV, and she also appeared in several episodes of John Galsworthy's book The Forsyte Saga in 2002. However, she has continued to be a comedian, appearing in Brighton Belles (1993–1994), the United Kingdom's brief-lived version of The Golden Girls. She appeared in Reggie Perrin's "Silent Times" series, an extension of Reginald Perrin's 1970s comedy The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.

Craig appeared in an episode of the cookery series MasterChef in 2012, as well as several other 1970s sitcom stars. In 2014, she appeared in an episode of the BBC's famous drama Waterloo Road.

She appeared in Death in Paradise, a BBC detective series, in 2016. She appeared in the second series of the ITV drama Unforgotten in 2017. Miss Bat appeared in the first three series of the CBBC's The Worst Witch in 2017. She appeared in Emmerdale, an ITV soap. She appeared in an episode of Doctors in October 2019, co-star Bruce Montague.

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