
Marlene Sidaway
Acting
Born: 1937-03-12 · Thornaby-on-Tees, Stockton-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England, UK
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).
🎬 Movies (20)

Pigs
2024
Gran

Allelujah
2023
Lucille

Sink
2018
Jean

Bad Night for the Blues
2010
Grace

Me and Orson Welles
2008
Grandmother Samuels

I Want Candy
2007
Sobbing Woman

Venus
2006
Hospital Nurse

Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
2004
Mrs. Clegg

Blackball
2003
Fifty-Year Old Lady

Tom's Midnight Garden
1999
Doris Schuster

Hunting Venus
1999
Marge Beake
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999
Matron

The Dark Room
1999
Mrs Helms

Beautiful Thing
1996
Betty

The Key
1995
Grady

Testimony of a Child
1989
Health Visitor
The Magic Toyshop
1987
Mrs. Rundle

Whistling Wally
1982
Mary

The Kiss of Death
1977
Christine

Beloved
1976
Sarah
📺 TV Shows (27)

Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators
2018
Bo Quickly

Mum
2016
Maureen

Cuffs
2015
Elsie

Man Down
2013

Sensitive Skin
2005
Tracy Vernon

Hustle
2004
Vivienne Marchant

Sirens
2002
Betty

Foyle's War
2002
Mrs. Esther Harrison

Bad Girls
1999
Mrs. Barker

Oliver Twist
1999
Woman in street

Midsomer Murders
1997
Mrs Bundy

Trial & Retribution
1997
Dr Deirdre Smith

Pride and Prejudice
1995
Hill

Cadfael
1994
Flescher's Wife

Peak Practice
1993
Rosie Pritchard

Heartbeat
1992
Nursing Officer

In Suspicious Circumstances
1991
Kathleen Clements

Jeeves and Wooster
1990
Pub Landlady

Lovejoy
1986
Hospital Sister

A Very Peculiar Practice
1986
Clara Rudd

Super Gran
1985
Miss Pinchpenny

Screen Two
1985
Joyce

Shine on Harvey Moon
1982
Miss Sprake

All Creatures Great and Small
1978
Nurse Brown

Strangers
1978
Customer

Victorian Scandals
1976
Sarah

The Ghosts of Motley Hall
1976
Mrs Osborn