Anne Reid

Anne Reid CBE
Reid on the set of Last Tango in Halifax in 2019
Born	(1935-05-28) 28 May 1935 (age 89) Jesmond, Tyne and Wear, England
Education	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Bachelor of Arts
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1957–present
Spouse	Peter Eckersley ​ ​ (m. 1971; died 1981)​
Children	1

Anne Reid (born 28 May 1935) is an English stage, film and television actress, known for her roles as Valerie Barlow in the soap opera Coronation Street (1961–1971); Jean in the sitcom dinnerladies (1998–2000); and her role as Celia Dawson in Last Tango in Halifax (2012–2020) for which she was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. A further nomination in the same category followed for playing Ann Moore-Martin in The Sixth Commandment (2023).^[1]

For her performance in the film The Mother (2003), Reid won the London Film Critics' Circle Award for British Actress of the Year and received a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Other notable film roles include the voice of Wendolene Ramsbottom in Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave (1995) and as Leslie Tiller in Hot Fuzz (2007).