- Best known for her long-running role on the British soap, Coronation Street (1960), as Hilda Ogden. Lord Laurence Olivier formed a fan club in honor of Hilda Ogden.
- She was voted "Greatest Soap Opera Star of All Time" in the UK TV Times in September 2005.
- Announced her retirement from acting in 2012. She subsequently suffered a stroke in 2014.
- She was awarded the Royal Television Society Award in 1985 for her role on "Coronation Street."
- She based her portrayal of Hilda Ogden on wartime women munitions workers, whose heads were always covered to protect them from the machinery. "They used to wear these scarves, like pudding-cloths, tied up and the curlers would be in.".
- Took her stage name from her father, Archibald Alexander Hodgkinson.
- Sister of Ken Hodgkinson.
- She spent 2 years with a touring theatre company then seven years with the Southport Repertory Company , a number of television parts before joining Coronation Street as Hilda Ogden in 1964.
- Presented with the Royal Television Society Best Performance Award for her role of Hilda Ogden in Coronation Street.
- She never married and lived in Southport.
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