Which actress appeared as a barmaid in over 2,800 episodes of 'Coronation Street' until her death in 2011?
Betty Williams (Coronation Street) Betty Williams (Coronation Street) Betty Williams (also Preston and Turpin) is a fictional character from the ITV soap opera, "Coronation Street", portrayed by former music hall star Betty Driver. Driver was cast as Betty in 1969, after first auditioning for the role of Hilda Ogden, which was given to Jean Alexander. The character arrived in "Coronation Street" to help her sister Maggie Cooke run the corner shop, and has since had a number of storylines which have seen her become twice widowed, and mother to an illegitimate son. For most of the shows run Betty worked as a barmaid in
Barbara Young (actress) actress turned barmaid, was a key figure in the show from 1998 until 2005, making her one of the show's longest serving characters. Young previously acted in soap opera "Coronation Street" in the early 1980s. In February 2007, she rejoined the cast of "Coronation Street", an old friend of Rita Sullivan called Doreen Fenwick until December that year. She appeared in two episodes of "Midsomer Murders", the 1997 pilot episode "The Killing at Badger's Drift" and the 2006 episode "Last Year's Model". In 2008, she made a guest appearance in an episode of the long-running BBC comedy series "Last of