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Barbara Knox MBE (born 30 September 1933), is a British actress, best known for playing Rita Tanner in the television soap opera Coronation Street. She appeared for one episode as Rita in 1964, before becoming a regular cast member from 1972 onwards.Knox made her professional stage debut in the early 1950s in Oldham Rep and had a small role as a dancer in the remake of Goodbye Mr. Chips (1969). For her part in perhaps her best remembered storyline in Coronation Street, involving the Alan Bradley character, she won the 1989TV Times award for Best Actress. In 2006, she won the British Soap Award for Best On-Screen Partnership with Malcolm Hebden, having previously received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2004 ceremony. She was made an MBE in the 2010 Queen's Birthday Honours.
The British Soap Award for Best On-Screen Partnership, The British Soap Award for Outstanding Achievement
TV Shows
Coronation Street
Star Sign
Libra
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Quote
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[on being awarded the MBE in June 2010:] It was a wonderful honor.
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Fact
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Mother of Maxine Ashcroft (née Mullaney) (b. 1957).
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Made a one-episode appearance as Rita in Coronation Street (1960) in 1964, in which she was seen in a friendship with Philip Lowrie's character Dennis Tanner. In 2012, a year after he had returned to the show, the two characters rekindled this bond and got married.
She was awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2010 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to drama.
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When the UK Sun newspaper presented her with a surprise birthday cake to mark the occasion of her 60th birthday, Barbara was finally forced to concede her true age, having previously pretended to be some 5 years younger. [1993]
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Recipient of the TV Times award for best television actress. [1989]
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Coronation Street
1964-2016
TV Series
Rita Sullivan
Rita Tanner
Rita Fairclough
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Coronation Street: A Knight's Tale
2010
Video
Rita Sullivan
Coronation Street: The Feature Length Special
1995
Video
Rita Sullivan
Funny You Should Say That
1972
TV Series
Various characters
A Family at War
1971
TV Series
Nursing Sister
Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width
1971
TV Series
Mrs. Nicholls
ITV Playhouse
1970
TV Series
The ward sister
Comedy Playhouse
1970
TV Series
Ethel
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1969
Dancer (uncredited)
The Dustbinmen
1969
TV Series
Housewife
Girls About Town
1969
TV Series
Sylvia Liversedge
George and the Dragon
1968
TV Series
Sandra
Mrs Thursday
1967
TV Series
Marie
Mr. Rose
1967
TV Series
Suzanne Marsh
Emergency-Ward 10
1966-1967
TV Series
Nurse Fulton / Night Nurse
The Man in Room 17
1965
TV Series
Martha Ross
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Rita & Me
2014
TV Movie documentary special thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Hilda Ogden's Last Ta-ra: A Tribute to Jean Alexander
2016
TV Movie
Herself (as Barbara Knox MBE)
National Television Awards
2015
TV Special
Herself
Rita & Me
2014
TV Movie documentary
Herself / Rita Tanner (as Barbara Knox MBE)
Coronation Street: A Moving Story
2014
TV Movie documentary
Herself
The One and Only Cilla Black
2013
TV Movie documentary
Rita Tanner
This Morning
2012-2013
TV Series
Herself
Lorraine
2012-2013
TV Series
Herself
Goodbye Granadaland
2013
TV Movie documentary
Herself
Coronation Street: The Big 50
2010
TV Movie
Herself (as Barbara Knox MBE)
Coronation Street: 50 Years, 50 Moments
2010
TV Movie documentary
Herself (as Barbara Knox MBE)
Paul O'Grady Live
2010
TV Series
Herself - Guest
ITV Evening News
2010
TV Series
Herself
ITV Lunchtime News
2010
TV Series
Herself
Coronation Street: The Webster Family Album
2007
TV Movie documentary
Herself
Happy Birthday BAFTA
2007
TV Movie
The British Soap Awards 2006
2006
TV Special
Herself
The British Soap Awards 2006: The Party
2006
TV Special
Herself
Deirdre & Me
2001
TV Movie documentary
Herself
Stars and Their Lives
2001
TV Series
Herself
This Is Your Life
1976-1996
TV Series documentary
Herself
The Street Party
1995
TV Movie
Performer
An Audience with Shirley Bassey
1995
TV Special
Herself - Audience Member
An Audience with Bob Monkhouse
1994
TV Special documentary
Herself
Classic Coronation Street
1991
TV Movie
Herself
That's Showbusiness
1991
TV Series
Herself
Happy Birthday, Coronation Street!
1990
TV Movie
Herself - Audience Member
Live from Coronation Street
1990
TV Movie documentary
Herself
Sunday, Sunday
1989
TV Series
Herself
The Royal Variety Performance 1989
1989
TV Movie
Herself
BAFTA British Academy Awards
1989
TV Special
Herself
Those Wonderful TV Times
1976
TV Series
Herself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Corrie Years
2011
TV Series documentary
Rita Sullivan
The Stars of the Street: 50 Years, 50 Classic Characters