Irene Sutcliffe (12 July 1924 – 3 May 2019) was an English actress. She was best known for playing Maggie Clegg^[1] in ITV's Coronation Street, a role she played from 1968 until 1975. She had a long career; her first credited TV role was in 1953 on BBC's Sunday Night Theatre and her last in 2015. In 1999, Sutcliffe was a finalist for the Audie Award for Best Female Narrator for her narration of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.^[2]

Personal life

Sutcliffe was born and brought up in Burnley, Lancashire, during her early life. Her father, Fred Sutcliffe, was an ironmonger.^[3] She trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Sutcliffe died on 3 May 2019 at the age of 94.^[4][5]

Credits

Television

• The Royals (2015) as The King's Mother
• Doctors (2010) as Joan Woolf in the Episode "The Tiptoe of Expectation" (Season 12, Episode 33)
• Doc Martin (2007) as Janet in the episode "the two of us"
• Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1997) as Helen Rance in the episode "Woman Of The Year" (Season 2, Episode 6)
• She's Out (1995) Mrs Simms
• Miss Marple (1987) as Miss Gorringe in the Episode "At Bertram's Hotel" (Episode 7)
• All Creatures Great & Small (1989) as Sister Rose in the Episode "The New World" (Season 6, Episode 7)

Morse (season1, Episode 1) as Mrs Hornsby (6/1/1987)

• Juliet Bravo (1984) as Mrs Williams in the Episode "Getting Away With It" (Season 5, Episode 4)
• ((Dark Green by Rose Tremaine)) (1975) BBC Radio 4 Play
• Coronation Street (1968–1974, 1975) as Maggie Clegg / Cooke, Series Regular
• Emergency Ward Ten (1966) as Night Sister
• Sunday Night Theatre (1953) as Desdemona in the Episode "Will Shakespeare"

Film

• Withnail & I (1987) as Mabs Blennerhassit (Waitress)

Radio

• Death on the Nile (BBC Radio 4 adaptation) (1997) as Mrs Van Shuyler

Stage