Violet Carson OBE played which character in a famous British Soap Opera?
Violet Carson Violet Carson Violet Helen Carson, OBE (1 September 1898 – 26 December 1983) was a British actress of radio and television, and a singer and pianist, who had a long and celebrated career as an actress and performer during the early days of BBC radio, and during the latter decades of her life as the matronly Christian widow, town gossip and original battle-axe Ena Sharples in the ITV television soap opera "Coronation Street". Carson was born on German Street in Ancoats, Manchester. Her father ran a flour mill and her mother was an amateur singer. As a child, she took
Rosa 'Violet Carson' featured in the graphic novel "V for Vendetta", but in the movie version, is renamed to the fictitious "Scarlet Carson" which Ruth grows for her partner (Valerie) and V grows during his imprisonment in the Larkhill Resettlement Camp. They were portrayed in the film by red 'Grand Prix' roses. Rosa 'Violet Carson' Violet Carson is a salmon-pink rose cultivar, an uncommon hybrid of the red hybrid tea 'Mme Léon Cuny' (Gaujard, 1955) and the orange floribunda 'Spartan' (Boerner, 1955), created by Samuel McGredy IV between 1963 and 1964. It was named after the English actress Violet Carson (1898-1983), who played