Patricia Greene

Patricia Greene (MBE)
Born	Patricia Honor Greene 1931 (age 92–93) Allenton, Derby, England, United Kingdom
Education	Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Occupation(s)	Actress (radio, television and film)
Known for	The Archers (radio series)
Spouse	George Selway

Patricia Honor Greene MBE (born 1931) is an English radio, television and film actress, who is best known as matriarch Jill Archer, a role she has played for 63 years in radio serial The Archers. She is the world's second longest serving actor in a soap opera, in any medium (radio, television or internet), the record being held by fellow Archers actress Lesley Saweard, who has played Christine Barford for 67 years.

Biography

Greene was born in Allenton, Derby, England. Her family moved to Campion Street in the New Zealand part of the city, where she attended Ashgate Infants School on Ashbourne Road. Later she moved to Kirk Street, Chester Green, attending St Paul's Junior School and the Parkfields Cedars Grammar School.

After working as a ward orderly at the Derbyshire Children's Hospital and in the sheet metal factory of Hawk Industries, she decided to become an actress and went to the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London in 1951.

She has had a lengthy career in radio and film, and is best known for portraying matriarch Jill Archer in the BBC Radio 4 soap The Archers since 1957 (originally Jill Patterson). She has also appeared in Casualty and Doctors both in 2000.

Greene married English actor George Selway in 1959. They were later divorced and she married Cyril Austen Richardson in 1972, by whom she has a son, Charles, born in 1972. She was widowed in 1986.

External links

• Archers Characters
• Patricia Greene at IMDb