Wendy Craig Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Wendy Craig (born 20 June 1934) is a BAFTA Award winning English actress who is best known for her appearances in the sitcoms Butterflies, ...And Mother Makes Three and ...And Mother Makes Five. As of the 2010s, she plays the recurring role of Matron in the TV series The Royal. She was born in Sacriston, County Durham and attended Durham High School for Girls, which she re-visited on October 13, 2007 when she opened a new building named after her. She began her career in British films at the end of the 1950s, and appeared in films such as The Servant (1963) and The Nanny (1965) with Bette... MORE

Wendy Craig (born 20 June 1934) is a BAFTA Award winning English actress who is best known for her appearances in the sitcoms Butterflies, ...And Mother Makes Three and ...And Mother Makes Five. As of the 2010s, she plays the recurring role of Matron in the TV series The Royal. She was born in Sacriston, County Durham and attended Durham High School for Girls, which she re-visited on October 13, 2007 when she opened a new building named after her. She began her career in British films at the end of the 1950s, and appeared in films such as The Servant (1963) and The Nanny (1965) with Bette Davis, but it was in British sitcoms of the late 1960s and 1970s which led to her becoming 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 comedy on BBC2, in which Craig's character was given more depth than in the earlier series. Wendy Craig returned to drama with the series Nanny in 1981—a show she created herself—and currently plays a hospital matron in LESS