Patricia Hayes(1909-1998)

She became an actress because her mother had been stage-struck, so she attended RADA and won a gold medal. Despite that, she was out of work for a year. An early success was as Ruby in Getting Married at St Martins Theatre in 1938. She is probably best remembered for her role as Ednam the Inebriated Womanm for which she won Television Actress of the Year Award in 1972. As a small child, she was sent to an acting teacher who taught her to recite The Murder of Nancy Drew by Charles Dickens, which she later used to recite in children's competitions and won prizes.