Annette Crosbie
Annette Crosbie

Annette Crosbie

  • 90 years old
  • Scottish
  • Actor
Eat Locals. Alice (Annette Crosbie)

Annette Crosbie, OBE, is a Scottish actor best known to British audiences for her roles as Margaret Meldrew in the BBC sitcom One Foot In The Grave (1990-2000) and as Jessie in the 2003 comedy film Calendar Girls.

Year Production Role
2023 One Foot In The Grave: 30 Years Of Laughs Self (Archive Material)
2020 After Life - Series 2
  1. E1 - Episode One
100 Year Old Woman
2019 Dial M For Middlesbrough Edna
2017 Eat Locals Alice
2017 Henry IX
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  1. E1 - Reigned In
  2. E2 - Exit Strategy
  3. E3 - Clearing The Air
Queen Charlotte
2016 Polyoaks - Series 4
  1. E2 - Hello, Goodbye
Veronica
2016 Dad's Army Cissy Godfrey
2015 The Vicar Of Dibley - Comic Relief 2015
  1. The Bishop Of Dibley
Reverend Mavis Pipkin
2014 Greatest Ever Sitcoms Self
2014 One Foot In The Grave - A Celebration Of A Comedy Classic Self (Archive Material)
2014 What We Did On Our Holiday Doreen
2013 Common Ground
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  1. E9 - Nell, Ted & Marlon
Brenda
2010 Old Harry's Game - 2010 Specials
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  1. Special - Christmas Spirit
  2. Special - Ring in the New
Edith
2009 Hope Springs
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  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E2 - Episode Two
  3. E3 - Episode Three
  4. E4 - Episode Four
  5. E5 - Episode Five
  6. E6 - Episode Six
  7. E7 - Episode Seven
  8. E8 - Episode Eight
Sadie Cairncross
2009 Old Harry's Game - Series 7
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  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E2 - Episode Two
  3. E3 - Episode Three
  4. E4 - Episode Four
  5. E5 - Episode Five
  6. E6 - Episode Six
Edith
2007 Old Harry's Game - Series 6
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  1. E1 - Edith
  2. E2 - Discoveries
  3. E3 - Murderers
  4. E4 - Psychiatry
  5. E5 - Investigation
  6. E6 - Ginger
Edith
2007 Make 'Em Laugh, Make 'Em Laugh
  1. E1 - The Family, Love 'Em And Hate 'Em
Self
2004 Black Books - Series 3
  1. E3 - Moo-Ma And Moo-Pa
Moo-Ma
2004 Britain's Best Sitcom
  1. E1 - The Launch
  2. E6 - One Foot In The Grave
Guest
2003 Calendar Girls Jessie
2000 I Don't Believe It! - The One Foot In The Grave Story Self
2000 One Foot In The Grave - Series 6
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  1. E1 - The Executioner's Song
  2. E2 - Tales Of Terror
  3. E3 - The Futility Of The Fly
  4. E4 - Threatening Weather
  5. E5 - The Dawn Of Man
  6. E6 - Things Aren't Simple Any More
  7. Special - Comic Relief Special
Margaret Meldrew
1997 Wyrd Sisters Granny Weatherwax
1997 One Foot In The Grave - 1996 & 1997 Specials
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  1. Special - Starbound
  2. Special - Endgame
Margaret Meldrew
1997 Underworld
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  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E2 - Episode Two
  3. E3 - Episode Three
  4. E4 - Episode Four
  5. E5 - Episode Five
Aunt Doreen
1997 Jonathan Creek - Series 1
  1. E5 - The House Of Monkeys
Ingrid Strange
1997 Shooting Fish Mrs. Cummins
1996 Angry Old Men Iris
1995 One Foot In The Grave
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  1. E1 - Alive And Buried
  2. E2 - Timeless Time
  3. E3 - In Luton Airport No One Can Hear You Scream
  4. E4 - The Beast In The Cage
Margaret Meldrew
1995 One Foot In The Grave - Series 5
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  1. Special - The Man Who Blew Away
  2. E1 - Only A Story
  3. E2 - The Affair Of The Hollow Lady
  4. E3 - Rearranging The Dust
  5. E4 - Hole In The Sky
  6. E5 - The Exterminating Angel
  7. Special - The Wisdom Of The Witch
Margaret Meldrew
1993 One Foot In The Grave - Series 4
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  1. E1 - The Pit And The Pendulum
  2. E2 - Descent Into The Maelstrom
  3. E3 - Hearts Of Darkness
  4. E4 - Warm Champagne
  5. E6 - Secret Of The Seven Sorcerers
  6. Special - One Foot In The Algarve
Margaret Meldrew
1993 Leon The Pig Farmer Dr. Johnson
1992 One Foot In The Grave - Series 3
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  1. Special - The Man In The Long Black Coat
  2. E1 - Monday Morning Will Be Fine
  3. E2 - Dreamland
  4. E3 - The Broken Reflection
  5. E4 - The Beast In The Cage
  6. E5 - Beware The Trickster On The Roof
  7. E6 - The Worst Horror Of All
Margaret Meldrew
1991 A Woman Of No Importance Lady Hunstanton
1991 The Pope Must Die Mother Superior
1990 One Foot In The Grave - Series 2
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  1. E1 - In Luton Airport No-One Can Hear You Scream
  2. E2 - We Have Put Her Living In The Tomb
  3. E3 - Dramatic Fever
  4. E4 - Who Will Buy?
  5. E5 - Love And Death
  6. E6 - Timeless Time
  7. Special - Who's Listening
Margaret Meldrew
1990 Colin's Sandwich - Series 2
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  1. E5 - Frank
  2. E6 - Out To Lunch
Colin's Mum
1990 One Foot In The Grave - Series 1
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  1. E1 - Alive And Buried
  2. E2 - The Big Sleep
  3. E3 - The Valley Of Fear
  4. E4 - I'll Retire To Bedlam
  5. E5 - The Eternal Quadrangle
  6. E6 - The Return Of The Speckled Band
Margaret Meldrew
1987 The Way, The Truth, The Video Mrs. Pollard
1980 Twelfth Night Maria
1979 Of Mycenae And Men Kassandra

Non-comedy TV and film credits may be found here:
Annette Crosbie on IMDb

Born
Monday 12th February 1934 (90 years-old)
Title
Annette Crosbie OBE
Nationality
Scottish

Born in Gorebridge, Midlothian, Scotland, Crosbie joined the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School while still a teenager, against the express wishes of her parents. She caught her breakthrough role in 1970 when cat as Catherine of Aragon in the BBC television series The Six Wives Of Henry VIII, for which she would win the 1971 BAFTA award for Best Actress.

After another period drama role as Queen Victoria in the ITV drama Edwqrd The Seventh, an abbess in Hawk The Slayer, and the vicar's wife in Paradise Postponed, her first major role in comedy came as Margaret Meldrew, the long-suffering wife of Victor Meldrew (Richard Wilson) in the BBC sitcom One Foot In The Grave. To this day it is the artistic performance for which she is best known. In 2014 she would feature as herself in a documentary retrospective One Foot In The Grave - A Celebration Of A Comedy Classic, celebrating what made the sitcom so beloved across the nation.

Crosbie also played the role of Edith in Andy Hamilton's hugely successful BBC Radio 4 sitcom Old Harry's Game, set in Hell. In 2003 she undertook the role of Jessie in the 2003 comedy film Calendar Girls, based on a true story, about 11 ladies from Yorkshire who strip for a naked charity calendar.

In 2014 Crosbie starred in the 2014 British comedy film What We Did On Our Holiday, written by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin, about a couple struggling to hold it all together amid the pressures of parenthood. In 2015 Crosbie played Reverend Mavis Pipkin in the Comic Relief special of long-running BBC television series The Vicar Of Dibley, and in 2016 she played the role of Cissy Godfrey in the film version of Dad's Army.

Crosbie was awarded the Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1998 New Year Honours for services to Drama.

BAFTA Television Awards 1995
Best Comedy Performance (Nominee)
BAFTA Television Awards 1994
Best Light Entertainment Performance (Nominee)

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