Remembering Older Actress Maggie Jones

Gina Wilhelm Actress - Remembering Older Actress Maggie Jones

Maggie Jones passed away this week at the age of 75. The "Coronation Street" star had been struggling since major surgery in October.

Jones played the sharp-tongued Blanche Hunt. The actress was known-and celebrated-for her comic delivery of withering one-liners.

William Roche, who played her son-in-law Ken Barlow on the long-running soap, remembered her fondly. "I don't think Maggie ever realised how much she was loved, not only by everyone on the show but by the millions of Blanche fans out there."

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Maggie Jones's Illness Prompts Rewrite

Gina Wilhelm Actress - Maggie Jones's Illness Prompts Rewrite


Maggie Jones, who plays battleaxe Blanche on the soap opera "Coronation Street," has had to be quickly written out of the script while she's in the hospital for emergency surgery.

Jones's deft comic timing has earned her many awards, including the Funniest Performance at the Inside Soap Awards.

Explaining her performance, Jones has said, "If I started trying to play the lines for laughs, they wouldn’t come out right and the performance would suffer."

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