Paula Wilcox was born on 13 December 1949 and is an English actress.
21 Facts About Paula Wilcox
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Paula Wilcox played Chrissy Plummer in the ITV sitcom Man About The House from 1973 to 1976, and had roles in TV shows such as The Lovers, Miss Jones and Son, The Queen's Nose, The Smoking Room, Emmerdale, Mount Pleasant, Boomers, Upstart Crow and Girlfriends.
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From 2020 to 2023, Wilcox appeared as Elaine Jones in Coronation Street.
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Paula Wilcox was born in Manchester on 13 December 1949 to Joseph and Mary Paula Wilcox.
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Paula Wilcox was offered her first starring television role in The Lovers, a Granada sitcom produced for the ITV network, largely written by Jack Rosenthal and co-starring Richard Beckinsale.
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Paula Wilcox appeared in an episode of The Benny Hill Show broadcast on 23 February 1972.
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Paula Wilcox was cast in one of the lead roles of Man About the House as Chrissy Plummer, who was regularly in a flirtatious battle of wits with her male flatmate Robin, played by Richard O'Sullivan.
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In 1991, Paula Wilcox returned to situation comedy as Ros West in a Yorkshire Television sitcom called Fiddlers Three opposite Peter Davison before playing the character of Ivy Sandford in the pilot of Frank Skinner's Blue Heaven on Channel 4 in 1992; the show then went on to become a series.
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Paula Wilcox appeared in several series of The Queen's Nose, and played small roles in the films The Higher Mortals and the Woody Allen movie Scoop.
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On 27 October 2006, Paula Wilcox appeared in the Only Fools and Horses spin-off The Green Green Grass as Marlene's sister.
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Paula Wilcox has played another character in the Only Fools and Horses universe, appearing in 2 episodes of Rock and Chips, playing Edward "Grandad" Trotter's estranged wife Violet.
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In 2007, Paula Wilcox joined the cast of Emmerdale as Hilary Potts, mother of the vicar's wife, Laurel Thomas.
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In November 2010, Paula Wilcox took the leading role as a Liverpudlian private eye in Following from the Front, a BBC radio play first broadcast in November 2010 and again in January 2015.
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Paula Wilcox played Pauline Johnson in the Sky1 sitcom series Mount Pleasant from 2011 to 2017.
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In 2017, Paula Wilcox filmed series 3 of Upstart Crow - the Shakespearean sitcom starring David Mitchell and penned by Ben Elton.
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Also in 2017 Paula Wilcox filmed the last episode of the Sky 1 series Mount Pleasant after 7 years of playing Pauline Johnson.
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Paula Wilcox has performed radio and voiceover work, and read the audiobook Three Things About Elsie written by Joanna Cannon.
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Paula Wilcox has appeared in Coronation Street since 2020, playing the role of Elaine Jones, a former abuse victim and first wife of Geoff Metcalfe and mother of established character Tim Metcalfe.
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Paula Wilcox previously appeared in Coronation Street in 1969 as Ray Langton's sister Janice.
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Paula Wilcox was married to fellow actor Derek Seaton from 1969 until his death in 1979 from a brain haemorrhage aged 35.
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In 1991, Paula Wilcox married Nelson "Skip" Riddle, an American businessman and the eldest son of the composer, bandleader and arranger Nelson Riddle.