1. Stephanie Cole won Best TV Actress at the 1992 British Comedy Awards for her role in Waiting For God and won Best Comedy Performance at the 2012 British Soap Awards for her role in Coronation Street.
25 Facts About Stephanie Cole
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Stephanie Cole was made an OBE in the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours.
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Stephanie Cole made her stage debut at the age of seventeen playing the eccentric, elderly medium Madame Arcati in Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit.
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One of Stephanie Cole's most recognised and popular roles was of Dr Beatrice Mason in the 1980s television series Tenko, a drama which chronicled the lives of British women in Singapore after the Japanese invasion and their consequent confinement in a Japanese prisoner of war camp.
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Stephanie Cole played the role of the stern, officious yet kindly doctor over three series and a one-off special between 1981 and 1985.
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Stephanie Cole was actually only in her early forties when she took the role; playing characters much older than she actually was became a hallmark of her career.
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Stephanie Cole appeared in a single episode of Fresh Fields as dog-trainer Mrs Robertson.
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In 1988, Stephanie Cole joined actresses Thora Hird, Maggie Smith, Julie Walters and Patricia Routledge in the award-winning first series of Talking Heads, featuring dramatic monologues written for BBC Television by British playwright Alan Bennett.
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Stephanie Cole performed the role of Muriel to great acclaim during the half-hour monologue "Soldiering On".
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Stephanie Cole played bad-tempered retired photojournalist Diana Trent in the sitcom Waiting for God, which ran from 1990 to 1994.
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From 2004 to 2009, Stephanie Cole appeared with Martin Clunes and Caroline Catz in the ITV comedy-drama, Doc Martin as Joan Norton, aunt of Clunes' character Dr Martin Ellingham.
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In 2006, Stephanie Cole starred with Victoria Wood in the BAFTA award-winning World War II drama Housewife, 49 as Mrs Waite, the local head of what was then the WVS.
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Stephanie Cole had a small role in the 2008 romantic comedy Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day as Miss Pettigrew's grumpy boss, Miss Holt.
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From 2013 to 2019, Stephanie Cole reprised her role as Delphine Featherstone in Still Open All Hours.
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Stephanie Cole appeared with original actors David Jason, Lynda Baron and Maggie Ollerenshaw.
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In 2019 Stephanie Cole appeared in the BBC One comedy Scarborough.
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Stephanie Cole has performed as a stage actress for more than fifty years.
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Stephanie Cole starred in the BBC Radio 4 comedy, Ed Reardon's Week as Olive, a student in Ed's writing class.
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Stephanie Cole played opposite Hugh Bonneville in the Sci-fi comedy Married.
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In 2002, Stephanie Cole was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree from the University of Bristol.
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Stephanie Cole was voted Solihull's favourite Silhillian in a competition run by Solihull Council in December 2006.
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Stephanie Cole beat Lucy Davis, Martin Johnson and Richard Hammond to pick up the top crown in The S Factor.
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Stephanie Cole is an Ambassador for the medical charity Overseas Plastic Surgery Appeal.
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In 1973, Stephanie Cole married fight director Henry Marshall, who was one of the founders of the British Academy of Dramatic Combat and was a Master at Arms at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
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In 1998, Stephanie Cole married fellow actor Peter Birrel after meeting him again, thirty years after they first appeared together in a production of Richard II at the Bristol Old Vic.