Acting

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Woman

15 Mar 1935

Brentford, London, England, UK

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Jane Freeman

Freeman was born in Brentford, London, in 1935 but raised in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, as a child, following the death of her father in an accident when she was 9 years old and her mother's subsequent remarriage. She graduated from the City Cardiff College of Music and Drama in 1955, and after a stay in London joined the Osiris Repertory Theatre touring company, based in Gloucestershire. She joined the Arena Theatre, Sutton Coldfield, in 1958, followed by Birmingham Rep from 1968 and 1973. Her stage appearances include Margaret More in the Welsh Theatre Company's first production, A Man for All Seasons, at Cardiff's New Theatre in 1962. She was best known for her role as café owner Ivy, one of the main characters in the long-running British TV comedy Last of the Summer Wine. Freeman died in March 2017 at the age of 81 from lung cancer. Her age was often incorrectly reported as being 96 at the time of her death, but official birth records prove that she was born in 1935

Blackadder

15 June 1983

Last of the Summer Wine

4 January 1973

Last of the Summer Wine

4 January 1973

Scrubbers

24 September 1982

Within These Walls

4 January 1974

Ghost in the Water

31 December 1982

Dark Water

1 January 1980

The Fishing Party

1 June 1972

Scully's New Year's Eve

3 January 1978

Androcles and the Lion

12 June 1984