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Patricia Greene (MBE)
Born
Patricia Honor Greene

February 1931 (age 93)
Allenton, Derby, England, United Kingdom
EducationRoyal Central School of Speech and Drama
Occupation(s)Actress (radio, television and film)
Known forThe Archers (radio series)
SpouseGeorge Selway

Patricia Honor Greene MBE (born Q1 1931)[1] is an English radio, television and film actress, who is best known as matriarch Jill Archer in radio serial The Archers. She has played the role continuously since 1957, making her the world's longest serving actor in a soap opera in any medium (radio, television or internet).[2]

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.[3]

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.

Greene was awarded the MBE in 2007 and was conferred an honorary Master of Arts degree by the University of Derby in 2017.[4]

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
  2. ^ Hawley, Zena (19 July 2017). "Longest serving soap actress Patricia Greene receives honorary degree from the University of Derby". Derby Telegraph. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  3. ^ Ashworth, Pat (19 May 2011). "Derby Born star of The Archers Patricia Greene". Great British Life. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  4. ^ "Patricia Greene MBE". University of Derby. July 2017. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
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