To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. Fergusson also appeared in several television shows, including All Creatures Great & Small, Crossroads and The Practice, before taking on the role that would define her for the next two decades. Jean Fergusson dead: Last of the Summer Wine and Corrie star - Metro She had a third, longer run in the soap as Dorothy Hoyle (2010-11), who became embroiled in a plot by her unstable daughter Charlotte and John Stape who had previously been jailed for kidnapping Rosie Webster to get Stape back into teaching by stealing someone elses identity. Connect any celebrity with Jean Fergusson to see how closely they are linked romantically! In 1999, she arrived to play the role of Mrs Mallett. After someone remarked to her that she shared some of Hylda Bakers mannerisms, Fergusson recalled doing impressions of the Lancashire comedy actor and queen of innuendo-ridden malapropisms in the playground at school. Bike rides with views of dry-stone walls and the Yorkshire landscape behind them became the standard scenario and the mini-skirt-wearing Fergusson had to endure the elements. Fans of Last of the Summer Wine previously mourned the death of Jean Fergusson. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. She also featured in long-running soap Coronation Street on three separate occasions and playing three different characters in the process. Discover Jean Fergusson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. . Fergusson, Fyfe and Kaplan were introduced to the TV version in 1985 and soon became regulars, staying until the final episode 25 years later. Jean Fergusson Wiki Biography, Age, Height, Husband, Net Worth, Family Juliette Kaplan, who played Pearl, and Jean Fergusson, who played Marina, both died in 2019. When she came back to the soap in 2010, she was involved in a huge kidnapping storyline that involved her on-screen husband Alan, John Stape and Chesney Brown. An actress who appeared in Coronation Street and Last of the Summer Wine died just days after telling her friends that she wasn't feeling well at a party. ', ``Something made me turn to the back of the book, where I expected to find blank pages. Jean Fergusson: Last of the Summer Wine actress dies - BBC Fergusson's casting as the mini-skirt wearing, peroxide blonde Marina, was in fact first performed in a stage version of the show. Something went wrong, please try again later. "Saw her Sunday at #SuPollards birthday, said she wasnt feeling well. Jean Fergusson who is best known for her long standing role as Marina in Last of the Summer Wine has sadly died at the age of 74 (Image: PA). Just a few days ago, on Sunday, Jean had been with friends celebrating Su Pollard's birthday, when she posed with 'Allo 'Allo star Vicki Michelle for what could have been her final picture, reports the Mirror Online . We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse. Fergusson's show She Knows You Know!, in which she portrayed the comedian Hylda Baker, performed at the Vaudeville Theatre, was nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Entertainment of the 1997 season,[3] and she was part of the cast of the touring play Seven Deadly Sins Four Deadly Sinners.
