Ex-spouse Robert McBain | Role Actress Name Patricia Brake | |
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Movies Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher, Campion: Dancers in Mourning, The Optimists TV shows Similar People Peter Kastner, Ronnie Barker, Fulton Mackay, Michael Barrington, Robert McBain | ||
Children Jon McBain, Hannah McBain Years active 1960 – 2022 Died 28 May 2022 (aged 79) | ||
Going Straight (1978) - Nicholas Lyndhurst as Raymond
Patricia Ann Brake (25 June 1942 – 28 May 2022) was an English actress.
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Patricia Brake is arguably best known for her performance as Ingrid Fletcher, the daughter of Norman Stanley Fletcher, in the BBC sitcom Porridge, and its sequel Going Straight. Most recently, in 2015, she guest-starred in the BBC ongoing drama Casualty and in Midsomer Murders for ITV. Alongside her extensive body of work in West End theatres, she has not only appeared as major characters in all the UK soaps, such as Viv Baldwin in ITV's Coronation Street, but has played opposite many British comic actors in numerous situation comedies and one-off plays.
After leaving The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Brake's first acting roles were with The Royal Shakespeare Company where she played alongside the likes of Judi Dench, Diana Rigg, Ian Richardson and Ian Holm. She appeared in series such as Emergency Ward 10 and Lorna Doone, as well as film roles in My Lover, My Son (1970) and The Optimists of Nine Elms (1973).
Death
Brake died from cancer on 28 May 2022, one month before her 80th birthday.