Violet Carson
Violet Helen Carson, OBE (September 1st 1898 – December 26th 1983) was a British actress of radio, stage, and television, and a singer and pianist, who had a long and celebrated career as an actress and performer during the early days of BBC Radio, and during the last two decades of her life as the matronly Christian widow, town gossip, and elderly battle-axe Ena Sharples in the ITV television soap opera Coronation Street. She was one of the original characters from the series debut in 1960 and would feature in the role for twenty years.
She presented Stars on Sunday, a programme Sandie Shaw appeared on, from 1970 until 1972.
External links
- Violet Carson at Coronation Street Wiki
- Violet Carson at Discogs
- Violet Carson at the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
- Violet Carson at Simple English Wikipedia
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