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Maureen Lipman

Maureen Lipman's film credits include David Fairman's Lighthouse Hill; Jeroen Krabbé's Discovery of Heaven; Paul Morrison's Solomon and Gaenor (which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film); Robert Young's Captain Jack; Dick Clement's Water; Amy Heckerling's National Lampoon's European Vacation; Lewis Gilbert's Educating Rita (for which she received a BAFTA Award nomination); Stephen Frears' Gumshoe; and Peter Collinson and Bob Kellett's Up the Junction (her screen debut).

She starred in her own television series, Agony, as well as its follow-up, Agony Again and About Face. Her notable telefilm appearances include Bob Brooks' The Knowledge (for Emmy Award-winning producer Verity Lambert); Alan Parker's The Evacuees and Re-Joyce; and the starring role of Shani Whittle in Piers Haggard's BAFTA Award-nominated Eskimo Day and its sequel Cold Enough for Snow.

Lipman's stage credits include playing Aunt Eller in Trevor Nunn's acclaimed National Theatre staging of Oklahoma! (later videotaped for a television airing); and playing Peggy Ramsay in Peggy for You (staged by Robin Lefevre). She starred in the West End productions of Lost in Yonkers and The Sisters Rosensweig; and in several seasons at the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company.


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Maureen Lipman Facts

OccupationActress
BirthdayMay 10, 1946 (62)
SignTaurus
BirthplaceHull, England, United Kingdom

Selected Filmography

The Pianist
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!
Educating Rita
The Jazz Channel Presents Earl Klugh
Billy Bragg & Wilco
Rogue Male
Long Day's Journey Into Night
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