Thelma Barlow
Birthday: 19 June 1929, Middlesbrough, North Riding, Yorkshire, England, UK
Birth Name: Thelma Pigott
Height: 157 cm
Thelma Barlow (née Pigott) is an English television actress and writer, most famous for her roles as Mavis Wilton in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street and as Dolly Bellfield in the si ...Show More
Regrets are pointless. My career has been beyond my expectations - it's been wonderful.
Regrets are pointless. My career has been beyond my expectations - it's been wonderful.
[on her Coronation Street (1960) character] "I could never have imagined I would stay with that char Show more
[on her Coronation Street (1960) character] "I could never have imagined I would stay with that character all that time. It had its own challenges and interest because it was like doing something in miniature rather than a big painting ... [Mavis] had great integrity, and she was a very loyal person. She would stick by her morality. She was a mouse to begin with, and then she met Derek and that did change, and she learnt to be quite tough." Hide
[on Coronation Street (1960), 2005] "I used to love the fact that it was so different from the other Show more
[on Coronation Street (1960), 2005] "I used to love the fact that it was so different from the other soaps; it had a lot more humour in it and kindness, but now it's more about who's sleeping with who. I suppose they've had to do it to keep up with the others." Hide
Thelma Barlow's FILMOGRAPHY
as Actor (70)
Thelma Barlow'S roles
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