IT'S MANY HAPPY RETURNS OF THE DAY TO STAGE AND SCREEN STAR PATRICIA HODGE

                                                                     

Patricia Hodge - went to school in Grimsby

IT'S happy birthday to actress Patricia Hodge, OBE, who was born in Cleethorpes and went to school in Grimsby.

Ms Hodge, who celebrates her 74th birthday, spent her early life at the former Royal Hotel in Cleethorpes which was owned and managed by her parents.

She was a pupil at Wintringham Girls' Grammar School in Weelsby Avenue, Grimsby. 

Her numerous roles on stage and screen have included the 1983 film, Betrayal, the TV series Rumpole of the Bailey (1978–1992), the 1986 TV adaptation of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil and the TV film Hotel du Lac (1986) for which she received a Best Actress BAFTA TV Award nomination. 

From 2009 to 2015, she starred in the BBC sitcom, Miranda.

Her husband, Peter, a music publisher, whom she married in 1976, died in 2016. She has two sons, Alex (31) and Edward (28). 

Ms Hodge shares her birthday with, among others, singer-songwriter Jerry Lee Lewis (85) and Olympic gold medallist Lord Seb Coe (64).

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