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Joan Hickson OBE (5 August 1906 – 17 October 1998) was an English actress of theatre, film and television, famed for playing Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the television series Miss Marple. As well as portraying Miss Marple on television, Hickson also narrated a number of Miss Marple stories on audio books. From 1958, Joan Hickson lived in Rose Lane, Wivenhoe along the River Colne in Essex, until 1998. Recently a plaque has been erected on the house where she lived for 40 years. Born in Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Joan Bogle Hickson was a daughter of shoe manufacturer Alfred Harold... MORE

Joan Hickson OBE (5 August 1906 – 17 October 1998) was an English actress of theatre, film and television, famed for playing Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the television series Miss Marple. As well as portraying Miss Marple on television, Hickson also narrated a number of Miss Marple stories on audio books. From 1958, Joan Hickson lived in Rose Lane, Wivenhoe along the River Colne in Essex, until 1998. Recently a plaque has been erected on the house where she lived for 40 years. Born in Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Joan Bogle Hickson was a daughter of shoe manufacturer Alfred Harold Hickson and his wife, the former Edith Mary Bogle. She made her stage debut in 1927, and for several years worked throughout the United Kingdom and achieved success playing comedic, often eccentric characters in London's West End, including the role of the cockney maid Ida in the original production of See How They Run, at the Q Theatre in 1944, and then at the Comedy Theatre in January 1945. She made her first film appearance in 1934, and the numerous supporting roles of her career included several Carry On films including Sister in Carry On Nurse; in a wonderfully comedic moment, her character in LESS