Patricia Ann Hodge was born on 29 September 1946 and is an English actress.
21 Facts About Patricia Hodge
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Patricia Hodge is known on-screen for playing Phyllida Erskine-Brown in Rumpole of the Bailey, Jemima Shore in Jemima Shore Investigates, Penny in Miranda and Mrs Pumphrey in All Creatures Great and Small.
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Patricia Hodge has received two nominations for the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical, and in 2000, she won the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the play Money.
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Patricia Hodge's parents married on Saturday 29 July 1944 at Old Clee.
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Patricia Hodge's father was from Birkdale, Southport, being in the RAF for ten years, becoming a Flt Lt.
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Patricia Hodge taught English and drama at Russell County Primary School in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, while applying to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
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Patricia Hodge started at LAMDA when she was 22, and was awarded the Eveline Evans Award for Best Actress on graduation.
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Patricia Hodge made her professional stage debut in the Howard Barker play No-One Was Saved at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in 1971.
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Patricia Hodge made her West End debut in Rookery Nook in 1972, and worked with Bob Fosse in 1973 on Pippin.
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Patricia Hodge has appeared in roles as diverse as in The Naked Civil Servant opposite John Hurt, shortly after she featured in the BBC's 1975 Christmas production Great Big Groovy Horse, a rock opera based on the story of the Trojan Horse shown on BBC2 starring Julie Covington, Bernard Cribbins and Paul Jones.
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Patricia Hodge featured as Myra Arundel in the 1984 BBC version of Noel Coward's Hay Fever, as Margaret Thatcher in The Falklands Play, and in 2007 as Betty, the wife of tycoon Robert Maxwell, in the BBC TV drama Maxwell opposite David Suchet.
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Patricia Hodge took the female lead in the 1983 film, Betrayal, a roman a clef derived from the playwright's affair with broadcaster Joan Bakewell.
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Patricia Hodge was nominated for a BAFTA for her role in a television adaptation of Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac in 1987, and was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 2000 for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the production of Money at the National Theatre.
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Patricia Hodge bought the rights of the book Portrait of a Marriage and is credited with developing a TV series of the same name in association with the BBC in 1990 adapted by writer Penelope Mortimer.
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Patricia Hodge co-starred with Dame Judi Dench in the 1995 London revival of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, at the National Theatre, as Countess Charlotte Malcolm.
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In 2003, Patricia Hodge featured in His Dark Materials, one of Nicholas Hytner's early productions as its Artistic Director, her third role on the Olivier Theatre stage.
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Patricia Hodge is an Honorary Graduate of Brunel University and one of the founder members of the Brunel Club.
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Patricia Hodge reprised the role alongside the rest of the cast for the 2017 Royal Variety Performance.
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Patricia Hodge is Joint President of Grimsby's Caxton Theatre and a Trustee of LAMDA, her alma mater.
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In 2018, Patricia Hodge played Ursula, the mother of Liberal MP and party leader Jeremy Thorpe in BBC Television's A Very English Scandal.
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Patricia Hodge was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to drama.