Years active 1964–Present Plays She Knows You Know | Role Television actress Name Jean Fergusson | |
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Similar People Robert Fyfe, Juliette Kaplan, Sarah Thomas, Jane Freeman, Gordon Wharmby Nationality British Zodiac Sign Capricorn Height 5' 7" (1.7 m) | ||
Jean Fergusson (born 30 December 1944 in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire) was a British television and theatre actress, who is best known for playing the part of Marina on the British situation comedy Last of the Summer Wine from 1985 until it was discontinued in 2010, and her role as Dorothy Hoyle in the soap Coronation Street.
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In theatre, Fergusson's show She Knows You Know!, in which she portrayed the comedian Hylda Baker, performed at the Vaudeville Theatre, was nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Entertainment of the 1997 season. and she was part of the cast of the touring play Seven Deadly Sins Four Deadly Sinners. In 2010, she joined the cast of "Coronation Street" as Dorothy Hoyle. This was not her first role on the show; she had previously portrayed Gary Mallet's mother in 1999 and Dr. Lowther's sister-in-law, Helen Ashcroft, in 1987. She returned to the show in 2011, featuring in a significant kidnapping storyline that involved her character's husband Alan, along with John Stape and Chesney Battersby-Brown.
Jean fergusson on the paul o grady show 26 may 2005
Death
She died at her home on 14 November 2019. Her partner of 30 years, Paul Jenkinson died in 2011.
Filmography
Actress
2006
Doctors (TV Series) as
Meg Baker / Rose Saunders / Brenda Wallis
- Happy Families (2013) - Meg Baker
- Doric's Column (2011) - Rose Saunders
- It's Not the Cough That Carries You Off (2006) - Brenda Wallis
2012
Run for Your Wife as
Exercising woman
1987
Coronation Street (TV Series) as
Dorothy Hoyle / Helen Ashcroft / Mrs. Mallett
2010
This Is England '86 (TV Mini Series) as
Daisy
- Episode #1.4 (2010) - Daisy
1985
Last of the Summer Wine (TV Series) as
Marina
- How Not to Cry at Weddings (2010) - Marina
- Howard and the Great Outdoors (2010) - Marina
- The Rights of Man (Except for Howard) (2010) - Marina
- Happy Camping (2010) - Marina
- Behind Every Bush There Is Not Necessarily a Howard (2010) - Marina
- Goodnight Sweet Ferret (2009) - Marina
- Variations on a Theme of Father's Day (2009) - Marina
- Will Randolph Make a Good Impression? (2009) - Marina
- Will Stella Find True Love with Norris Fairburn? (2009) - Marina
- Nobody Messes with Tony the Throat (2009) - Marina
- Who's That Looking Sideways at Nelly? (2009) - Marina
- Will Howard Cross the Atlantic Single Handed? (2009) - Marina
- The Mother of All Mistakes - Or Is It? (2009) - Marina
- Some Adventures of the Inventor of the Mother Stitch (2009) - Marina
- Get Out of That, Then (2008) - Marina
- Of Passion and Pizza (2008) - Marina
- The Mischievous Tinkle in Howard's Eyes (2008) - Marina
- In Which Romance Isn't Dead - Just Incompetent (2008) - Marina
- Eva's Back in Town (2008) - Marina
- All That Glitters Is Not Elvis (2008) - Marina
- Is Jeremy Quite Safe? (2008) - Marina
- Will the Genuine Racer Please Stand Up? (2008) - Marina
- Enter the Finger (2008) - Marina
- Sinclair and the Wormley Witches (2007) - Marina
- In Which Howard Remembers Where He Left His Bicycle Pump (2007) - Marina
- Must Be Good Dancer (2007) - Marina
- The Crowcroft Challenge (2007) - Marina
- Elegy for Small Creature and Clandestine Trackbike (2007) - Marina
- Will the Nearest Alien Please Come In (2007) - Marina
- In Which Howard Gets Double Booked (2007) - Marina
- Variations on a Theme of Road Rage (2007) - Marina
- What Happened to the Horse? (2007) - Marina
- The Second Stag Night of Doggy Wilkinson (2007) - Marina
- A Tale of Two Sweaters (2006) - Marina
- Plenty of Room in the Back (2006) - Marina
- Oh Look! Mitzi's Found Her Mummy (2006) - Marina
- Who's That Talking to Lenny? (2006) - Marina
- Who's That Merry Man with Billy, Then? (2006) - Marina
- Barry in Danger from Reading and Aunt Jessie (2006) - Marina
- The Genuine Outdoors Robin Hood Barbi (2006) - Marina
- Has Anyone Seen Barry's Midlife Crisis? (2006) - Marina
- How to Remove a Cousin (2006) - Marina
- Follow That Bottle (2006) - Marina
- Merry Entwistle and Jackson Day (2005) - Marina
- Little Orphan Howard (2005) - Marina
- Lot No. 8 (2005) - Marina
- The Afterthoughts of a Co-op Manager (2005) - Marina
- The McDonaghs of Jamieson Street (2005) - Marina
- Available for Weddings (2005) - Marina
- Who's That Mouse in the Poetry Group? (2005) - Marina
- Hermione (the short course) (2005) - Marina
- Has Anyone Seen a Peruvian Wart? (2005) - Marina
- Watching the Clock (2005) - Marina
- The Swan Man of Ilkley (2005) - Marina
- Variations on a Theme of the Widow Winstanley (2004) - Marina
- Yours Truly - If You're Not Careful (2004) - Marina
- Beware of Laughing at Nora's Hats (2004) - Marina
- Things to Do When Your Wife Runs Off with a Turkish Waiter (2004) - Marina
- Barry Becomes a Psychopathic Killer But Only Part Time (2004) - Marina
- An Apple a Day (2004) - Marina
- Who's That with Barry and Glenda? - It's Not Barry and Glenda (2004) - Marina
- Happy Birthday Robin Hood (2004) - Marina
- Spores (2004) - Marina
- The General's Greatest Battle (2004) - Marina
- Jurassic - No Parking (2004) - Marina
- All of a Florrie (2003) - Marina
- The Second Husband and the Showgirls (2003) - Marina
- The Man Who Invented Yorkshire Funny Stuff (2003) - Marina
- The Frenchies Are Coming (2003) - Marina
- The Miraculous Curing of Old Goff Helliwell (2003) - Marina
- In Which Gavin Hinchcliffe Loses the Gulf Stream (2003) - Marina
- The Secret Birthday of Norman Clegg (2003) - Marina
- A Pick-up of the Later Ming Dynasty (2003) - Marina
- Ancient Eastern Wisdom - An Introduction (2003) - Marina
- The Lair of the Cat Creature (2003) - Marina
- A Musical Passing for a Miserable Muscroft (2002) - Marina
- It All Began with an Old Volvo Headlamp (2002) - Marina
- Sadly, Madly, Bradley (2002) - Marina
- Exercising Father's Bicycle (2002) - Marina
- A Chaise Longue Too Far (2002) - Marina
- In Search of Childlike Joy and the Farthest Reaches of the Lotus Position (2002) - Marina
- Beware of the Hot Dog (2002) - Marina
- The Incredible Ordeal of Norman Clegg (2002) - Marina
- Mervyn Would Be Proud (2002) - Marina
- The Mystical Squeak of Howard's Bicycle (2002) - Marina
- A Brief Excursion in the Fast Lane (2002) - Marina
- Potts in Pole Position (2001) - Marina
- The Coming of the Beast (2001) - Marina
- Why Is Barry at an Angle? (2001) - Marina
- A White Sweater and a Solicitor's Letter (2001) - Marina
- A Hair of the Blonde That Bit You (2001) - Marina
- The Art of the Shorts Story (2001) - Marina
- Gnome and Away (2001) - Marina
- Enter the Hawk (2001) - Marina
- Hey, Big Vendor (2001) - Marina
- The Missing Bus of Mrs Avery (2001) - Marina
- Getting Barry's Goat (2001) - Marina
- I Didn't Know Barry Could Play (2000) - Marina
- Waggoners Roll (2000) - Marina
- Some Vans Can Make You Deaf (2000) - Marina
- From Here to Paternity (2000) - Marina
- Just a Small Funeral (2000) - Marina
- Surprise at Throstlenest (2000) - Marina
- Elegy for Fallen Wellies (2000) - Marina
- Magic and the Morris Minor (2000) - Marina
- Under the Rug (2000) - Marina
- Lipstick and Other Problems (2000) - Marina
- Last Post and Pigeon (2000) - Marina
- Ironing Day (1999) - Marina
- The Phantom Number 14 Bus (1999) - Marina
- Howard Throws a Wobbler (1999) - Marina
- Beware the Vanilla Slice (1999) - Marina
- Will Barry Go Septic Despite Listening to Classical Music? (1999) - Marina
- Optimism in the Housing Market (1999) - Marina
- What Happened to Barry's Nose? (1999) - Marina
- Who's Thrown Away Her Tom Cruise Photographs? (1999) - Marina
- How Errol Flynn Discovered the Secret Scar of Nora Batty (1999) - Marina
- The Pony Set (1999) - Marina
- Support Your Local Skydiver (1998) - Marina
- From Audrey Nash to the Widow Dilhooley (1998) - Marina
- Nowhere Particular (1998) - Marina
- Perfection - Thy Name Is Ridley (1998) - Marina
- The Only Diesel Saxophone in Captivity (1998) - Marina
- The Suit That Attracts Blondes (1998) - Marina
- Oh Howard, We Should Get One of Those (1998) - Marina
- Truly and the Hole Truth (1998) - Marina
- Tarzan of the Towpath (1998) - Marina
- Beware of the Oglethorpe (1998) - Marina
- There Goes the Groom (1997) - Marina
- A Sidecar Named Desire (1997) - Marina
- Destiny and Six Bananas (1997) - Marina
- Next Kiss Please (1997) - Marina
- According to the Prophet Bickerdyke (1997) - Marina
- Deviations with Davenport (1997) - Marina
- How to Create a Monster (1997) - Marina
- A Double for Howard (1997) - Marina
- The Mysterious C.W. Northrop (1997) - Marina
- A Clean Sweep (1997) - Marina
- The Love Mobile (1997) - Marina
- Extra! Extra! (1996) - Marina
- A Leg Up for Christmas (1995) - Marina
- Brushes at Dawn (1995) - Marina
- The Thing in Wesley's Shed (1995) - Marina
- Beware of the Elbow (1995) - Marina
- The Suit That Turned Left (1995) - Marina
- Captain Clutterbuck's Treasure (1995) - Marina
- The First Human Being to Ride a Hill (1995) - Marina
- The Glamour of the Uniform (1995) - Marina
- Leaving Home Forever, or Till Teatime (1995) - Marina
- The Sweet Smell of Excess (1995) - Marina
- The Dewhirsts of Ogleby Hall (1995) - Marina
- The Most Powerful Eyeballs in West Yorkshire (1995) - Marina
- The Space Ace (1995) - Marina
- Once in a Moonlit Junkyard (1995) - Marina
- The Defeat of the Stoneworm (1995) - Marina
- Adopted by a Stray (1995) - Marina
- The Glory Hole (1995) - Marina
- The Man Who Nearly Knew Pavarotti (1995) - Marina
- Welcome to Earth (1993) - Marina
- Aladdin Gets on Your Wick (1993) - Marina
- There Are Gypsies at the Bottom of Our Garden (1993) - Marina
- Springing Smiler (1993) - Marina
- Concerto for Solo Bicycle (1993) - Marina
- Have You Got a Light Mate? (1993) - Marina
- The Black Widow (1993) - Marina
- Where There's Smoke There's Barbeque (1993) - Marina
- How to Clear Your Pipes (1993) - Marina
- Stop That Castle! (1992) - Marina
- Wheelies (1992) - Marina
- Camera Shy (1992) - Marina
- Who's Got Rhythm? (1992) - Marina
- Happy Birthday, Howard (1992) - Marina
- Ordeal by Trousers (1992) - Marina
- The Self-Propelled Salad Strainer (1992) - Marina
- Phantom of the Graveyard (1992) - Marina
- Errol Flynn Used to Have a Pair Like That (1992) - Marina
- By the Magnificent Thighs of Ernie Burniston (1992) - Marina
- Situations Vacant (1991) - Marina
- Pole Star (1991) - Marina
- Cashflow Problems (1991) - Marina
- Was That Nora Batty Singing? (1991) - Marina
- Give Us a Lift (1991) - Marina
- Quick, Quick, Slow (1991) - Marina
- Barry's Christmas (1990) - Marina
- A Landlady for Smiler (1990) - Marina
- Roll On (1990) - Marina
- The Last Surviving Maurice Chevalier Impression (1990) - Marina
- The Empire That Foggy Nearly Built (1990) - Marina
- Das (Welly) Boot (1990) - Marina
- That's Not Captain Zero (1990) - Marina
- Walking Stiff Can Make You Famous (1990) - Marina
- The Charity Balls (1990) - Marina
- Come in Sunray Major (1990) - Marina
- Return of the Warrior (1990) - Marina
- What's Santa Brought for Nora Then? (1989) - Marina
- Three Men and a Mangle (1989) - Marina
- Getting Barry Higher in the World (1989) - Marina
- Happy Anniversary Gough and Jessie (1989) - Marina
- Oh Shut Up and Eat Your Choc-Ice (1989) - Marina
- The Kiss and Mavis Poskit (1989) - Marina
- Come Back Jack Harry Teesdale (1989) - Marina
- Crums (1988) - Marina
- Downhill Racer (1988) - Marina
- That Certain Smile (1988) - Marina
- The Treasure of the Deep (1988) - Marina
- Big Day at Dream Acres (1987) - Marina
- The Ice-cream Man Cometh (1987) - Marina
- Who's Feeling Ejected Then? (1987) - Marina
- Dried Dates and Codfanglers (1987) - Marina
- The Heavily Reinforced Bottom (1987) - Marina
- Why Does Norman Clegg Buy Ladies' Elastic Stockings? (1987) - Marina
- Merry Christmas, Father Christmas (1986) - Marina
- Uncle of the Bride (1986) - Marina
- Who's Looking After the Cafe Then? (1985) - Marina (uncredited)
- The Woollenmills of Your Mind (1985) - Marina
- Catching Digby's Donkey (1985) - Marina
2001
Peak Practice (TV Series) as
Mary Newson
- Blind Spot (2001) - Mary Newson
1993
Lipstick on Your Collar (TV Mini Series) as
Dance instructor
- Episode #1.4 (1993) - Dance instructor
1986
Albion Market (TV Series)
- Episode #1.35 (1986)
1985
The Practice (TV Series) as
Joyce Tibbs
- Episode #1.13 (1985) - Joyce Tibbs (as Jean Ferguson)
- Episode #1.12 (1985) - Joyce Tibbs (as Jean Ferguson)
- Episode #1.9 (1985) - Joyce Tibbs (as Jean Ferguson)
- Episode #1.8 (1985) - Joyce Tibbs (as Jean Ferguson)
1985
A Woman of Substance (TV Mini Series) as
Mrs. Hinton
- Episode #1.1 (1985) - Mrs. Hinton
1978
All Creatures Great and Small (TV Series) as
Mrs. Tremayne
- The Last Furlong (1978) - Mrs. Tremayne
1974
Crossroads (TV Series) as
Caroline Herbert
- Episode #1.2043 (1974) - Caroline Herbert
Self
2016
Pointless Celebrities (TV Series) as
Self - Contestant
- Comedies (2016) - Self - Contestant
2013
ME1 TV Talks To... The Heritage Foundation (Video) as
Self
2005
The Paul O'Grady Show (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #2.54 (2005) - Self
2003
RI:SE (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 10 September 2003 (2003) - Self
2003
30 Years of 'Last of the Summer Wine' (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2001
Live Lunch (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode dated 11 December 2001 (2001) - Self - Guest
1998
This Is Your Life (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Frank Thornton (1998) - Self
1987
Blankety Blank (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #14.6 (1998) - Self
- Episode #11.9 (1987) - Self (as Jean Ferguson)
1998
Change That (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Episode dated 20 April 1998 (1998) - Self
1998
Light Lunch (TV Series) as
Self
- Let's Get Nissed as a Pewt (1998) - Self
References
Jean Fergusson Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA