Stephanie Cole
Actress

Stephanie Cole Net Worth

She has also appeared in films such as The Remains of the Day (1993) and The Madness of King George (1994). Stephanie Cole is an English actress and soundtrack born in Solihull, Warwickshire in 1941. At 15, she was accepted to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and began her career at 17 playing a 90-year-old woman. She is best known for her roles in Waiting for God (1990) and Doc Martin (2004), as well as films such as The Remains of the Day (1993) and The Madness of King George (1994).
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actress, Soundtrack
Birth Day October 05, 1941
Birth Place  Solihull, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
Age 81 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Scorpio
Occupation Actress
Years active 1968–present
Spouse(s) Henry Marshall (m. 1973–86; divorced) Peter Birrel (m. 1998–2004; his death)
Children Emma Battcock

💰 Net worth: $1.6 Million (2024)

Stephanie Cole is a renowned actress and soundtrack artist based in the United Kingdom. With a successful career spanning several decades, Stephanie has garnered not only critical acclaim but also substantial wealth. As of 2024, her net worth is estimated to be around $1.6 million, a testament to her talent, hard work, and dedication to her craft. Stephanie's versatile performances and contributions to the entertainment industry have earned her a special place in the hearts of fans worldwide. Her wealth reflects the recognition and success she has achieved throughout her illustrious career.

Biography/Timeline

1958

Cole was born in Solihull, Warwickshire, and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School from 1958 to 1960 and went on to consolidate her acting skills in repertory theatres around the United Kingdom. She made her stage debut at the age of seventeen playing the eccentric, elderly medium Madame Arcati in Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit. At the age of 63 she returned to the same role when the play was revived at the West End's Savoy Theatre in 2004.

1968

Cole has also performed as a stage Actress for more than fifty years. On the West End stage, she has featured in The Mousetrap in 1968 (Ambassadors Theatre) as Miss Casewell, Noises Off in 1983 (Savoy Theatre), Steel Magnolias in 1989 (Lyric Theatre) and Quartet in 1999 (Albery Theatre). Her most prominent stage role was as Betty in the hit comedy A Passionate Woman written by Kay Mellor. The play, directed by Ned Sherrin, opened at the Comedy Theatre in 1994 and had a nine-month extended run. On the West End's production's last curtain call, Cole was made the subject of This Is Your Life.

1973

In 1973, Cole married fight Director Henry Marshall, who was one of the founders of the British Academy of Dramatic Combat and was a Master at Arms at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. They have a daughter, Emma Battcock (born 1973). They divorced in 1988. In 1998, Cole married fellow actor Peter Birrel after meeting him again, thirty years after they first appeared together in a production of Richard II at the Bristol Old Vic.

1980

One of Cole's most recognised and popular roles was of Dr Beatrice Mason in the 1980s television series Tenko, a drama which chronicled the lives of British women in Singapore after the Japanese invasion and their consequent confinement in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. The series was explicit in its portrayal of the horrific conditions and brutality faced by the women during their imprisonment, and dealt with issues such as rape, stillbirth, lesbianism, suicide, abortion and euthanasia. Cole played the role of the stern, officious yet kindly Doctor over three series and a one-off special between 1981 and 1985.

1988

In 1988, Cole joined actresses Thora Hird, Maggie Smith, Julie Walters and Patricia Routledge in the award-winning first series of Talking Heads, featuring dramatic monologues written for BBC Television by British Playwright Alan Bennett. Cole performed the role of Muriel to great acclaim during the half-hour monologue "Soldiering On". In later years, Cole would repeat her performance of this now famous monologue on both the London stage and for BBC Radio.

1990

Another of Cole's famous roles was of bad-tempered retired photojournalist Diana Trent in the sitcom Waiting for God, which ran from 1990 to 1994. Although Diana was supposed to be a pensioner, Cole was actually 48 years old when she took the role, for which she received the 1992 Best TV Comedy Actress award at the British Comedy Awards.

1992

She won Best TV Actress at the 1992 British Comedy Awards for her role in Waiting For God and won Best Comedy Performance at the 2012 British Soap Awards for her role in Coronation Street. She was made an OBE in the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours.

1998

In 1998, Cole's career in comedy was commemorated in the BBC documentary series Funny Women. In the same year, Cole's autobiography A Passionate Life was published. The book's foreword was written by British theatre Director Ned Sherrin.

2002

In 2002, Cole was awarded an honorary Masters of Arts degree from the University of Bristol. In 2005, she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to drama, the elderly and mental health charities.

2004

From 2004 to 2009, Cole starred with Martin Clunes and Caroline Catz in the ITV comedy-drama, Doc Martin as Joan Norton, aunt of Clunes's character Dr Martin Ellingham. In 2006, Cole starred with Victoria Wood in the BAFTA award-winning World War II drama Housewife, 49 as Mrs Waite, the local head of what was then the WVS. Cole also had a small role in the 2008 romantic comedy Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day as Miss Pettigrew's grumpy boss, Miss Holt.

2006

Cole was voted Solihull's favourite Silhillian in a competition run by Solihull Council in December 2006. She beat Lucy Davis, Martin Johnson and Richard Hammond to pick up the top crown in The S Factor.

2011

In April 2011, Cole joined the cast of Coronation Street, playing Sylvia Goodwin, the mother of regular character Roy Cropper. In August 2012, she was cast in an adaptation of the 1938 thriller film The Lady Vanishes on the BBC.

2013

Since 2013, Cole has reprised her role as Delphine Featherstone in Still Open All Hours. She stars with original actors David Jason, Lynda Baron and Maggie Ollerenshaw.

2017

Cole has appeared in several radio series. She starred in the BBC Radio 4 comedy, Ed Reardon's Week as Olive, a student in Ed's writing class. Other work for BBC Radio 4 includes the role of Carolyn Knapp-Shappey, opposite Benedict Cumberbatch and Roger Allam in the successful airline sitcom Cabin Pressure. In 2017 Cole also starred in an episode of "John Finnemore's Double Acts" on Radio 4.

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