Marlene Sidaway

Biography

Marlene Sidaway is an accomplished British character actress with a career spanning over six decades across television, film, and theatre. She is perhaps most widely recognized for her role as the domineering Brenda Taylor in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street (1990–1992) and as Maureen in the BBC sitcom Mum (2016–2019).

Known For

Midsomer Murders

Heartbeat

Peak Practice

Hustle

Foyle's War

All Movies (20)

Pigs2024 · as Gran
Allelujah2023 · as Lucille
Sink2018 · as Jean
Bad Night for the Blues2010 · as Grace
Me and Orson Welles2008 · as Grandmother Samuels
I Want Candy2007 · as Sobbing Woman
Venus2006 · as Hospital Nurse
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill2004 · as Mrs. Clegg
Blackball2003 · as Fifty-Year Old Lady
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll1999 · as Matron
Tom's Midnight Garden1999 · as Doris Schuster
The Dark Room1999 · as Mrs Helms
Hunting Venus1999 · as Marge Beake
Beautiful Thing1996 · as Betty
The Key1995 · as Grady
Testimony of a Child1989 · as Health Visitor
The Magic Toyshop1987 · as Mrs. Rundle
Whistling Wally1982 · as Mary
The Kiss of Death1977 · as Christine
Beloved1976 · as Sarah

All TV Shows (30)

Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators2018 · as Bo Quickly
Mum2016 · as Maureen
Cuffs2015 · as Elsie
Man Down2013
Sensitive Skin2005 · as Tracy Vernon
Hustle2004 · as Vivienne Marchant
Foyle's War2002 · as Mrs. Esther Harrison
Sirens2002 · as Betty
Oliver Twist1999 · as Woman in street
Bad Girls1999 · as Mrs. Barker
Trial & Retribution1997 · as Dr Deirdre Smith
Midsomer Murders1997 · as Mrs. Bundy
Midsomer Murders1997 · as Counseller 2
Midsomer Murders1997 · as Mrs Bundy
Pride and Prejudice1995 · as Hill
Cadfael1994 · as Flescher's Wife
Peak Practice1993 · as Hospital Matron
Peak Practice1993 · as Rosie Pritchard
Heartbeat1992 · as Nursing Officer
In Suspicious Circumstances1991 · as Kathleen Clements
Jeeves and Wooster1990 · as Pub Landlady
A Very Peculiar Practice1986 · as Clara Rudd
Lovejoy1986 · as Hospital Sister
Super Gran1985 · as Miss Pinchpenny
Screen Two1985 · as Joyce
Shine on Harvey Moon1982 · as Miss Sprake
Strangers1978 · as Customer
All Creatures Great and Small1978 · as Nurse Brown
Victorian Scandals1976 · as Sarah
The Ghosts of Motley Hall1976 · as Mrs Osborn