Diana Davies (actress)

Diana Davies
Born	20 July 1936 (1936-07-20) (age 75) Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom

Diana Davies (born 20 July 1936 in Manchester, Lancashire) is an English actress, best known for playing roles in two long-running ITV soap operas; Norma Ford in Coronation Street, and Caroline Bates in Emmerdale Farm between 1984 and 1999.^[1]

Career

Amongst her roles prior to becoming a regular in Emmerdale Farm, Davies portrayed three different characters in the retrospective educational drama How We Used To Live between 1969 and 1981; her characters being Mama (1969), Alice Boothroyd (1976) and Mabel Hodgkins (1981).

Personal life

Davies divorced her husband, Peter, in 1979,^[1] with whom she had a son, Stephen.^[1] She moved to Torquay in 2004 to live with her sister, Jill Barton.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} "Why Streetwise Diana is back on the boards" ThisIsSouthDevon.co.uk

External links

• Diana Davies at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Davies, Diana
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Date of birth	20 July 1936
Place of birth	Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
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