Wendy Craig

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Wendy Craig (born June 20, 1934) is a British actress.

She was born in Sacriston, County Durham, and began her career in British films of the late 1950s appearing in films such as The Servant. However, it was in British sitcoms of the 1960s and 1970s that she became a household name, usually playing a scatty middle-class housewife. She went from the BBC's Not in Front of the Children (1967) to ITV's ...And Mother Makes Three (1971) (in which she played a single parent), which later evolved into ...And Mother Makes Five. Then came Butterflies (1978), a more offbeat comedy on BBC2.

Wendy Craig branched out into TV drama with Nanny in 1981, and currently plays a hospital matron in ITV's The Royal (who's real name has never, to date, been revealed). However, she continues to be associated with comedy, having taken one of the leading roles in Brighton Belles, the UK's disasterously short-lived version of The Golden Girls.

In September 2004 it was revealed that the second of her sons, Ross Bentley, was the result of a short affair with John Mortimer.