Maureen is currently playing Evelyn Plummer in Coronation Street. A role she has played since she joined in 2018.

Maureen Lipman was born in Hull, Yorkshire. She studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and made her acting debut in The Knack in 1969. Since then, she has worked in film, TV, theatre and radio.

She has appeared in numerous productions at the National Theatre in the Old Vic days and as Celia in As You Like It at the RSC. As well as being in many West End productions, including Wonderful Town, See How They Run, Candida, Lost in Yonkers, Oklahoma, Outside Edge, Thoroughly Modern Millie, A Little Night Music, Daytona, Harvey and her one-woman show Re Joyce – a homage to her heroine, Joyce Grenfell. Maureen has performed on the fringe circuit with productions such as My Mother Said I Never Should at the St James' Theatre, Old Money at the Hampstead and Lettice and Lovage at The Menier. Maureen’s most recent theatrical credit is The Best Man where she played the role of Mrs. Gamadge at the West End venue The Playhouse theatre. 2022 marked the stage revival of Martin Sherman’s one woman show ‘Rose’, which was originally filmed and available to stream online during the pandemic.

The Works of Alans - Plater, Ayckbourn and Bennett - together with those of her late husband Jack Rosenthal (The Evacuees, The Knowledge, Bag Lady) and her series About Face, Agony, Bull with Robert Lindsay and Ladies of Letters with Anne Reid and Lillian, the short-lived manager of the Rover’s Return (Coronation Street) make up some of her prolific TV work, alongside a memorable Princess of France in Love’s Labour’s Lost.

Her film work includes such iconic titles as Up The Junction, Educating Rita and the Oscar winning The Pianist. TV appearances include Jonathan Creek, Holby City, The Job Lot, Disappearing Britain, Bull and the next series of Plebs. A long-time lover of Radio 4, she starred in Lucy Beaumont’s To Hull and Back and recorded four comedy dramas under the heading A Month of Maureen.

She has written ten bestselling, anecdotal books for Robson Publishers. After 14 years writing for Good Housekeeping and a year on the Guardian, she had a monthly column in Standpoint and a quarterly health column in The Spectator.

She has received Two Olivier awards, two Royal Variety awards and several nominations and was awarded the CBE in 1999 for her services to drama.