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Jo Warne

Actor
Born January 2, 1938Died January 13, 2017 (79 years)
Josephine Margaret Warne (2 January 1938 – 13 January 2017), better known as Jo Warne, was an English actress, who briefly played Peggy Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, making her first appearance on 30 April 1991. She appeared in a total of 10 episodes between April and July 1991, as part of Sam Mitchell (Danniella Westbrook) and Ricky Butcher's (Sid Owen) teen elopement storyline. Barbara Windsor later took on the full-time role of Peggy until the character's death in 2016.

Warne appeared in the last episode of the 1970s police series The Sweeney as Gloria Bartley, Jack Regan's ex-girlfriend. She also appeared in an episode of the drama Minder (1980), ITV's Hammer House of Horror in the episode The House That Bled to Death, episode 8 of The Bill, made several appearances in various series of T-Bag during the 1980s – early 1990s, and appeared in Series 8 of Bodger and Badger as Mrs Bobbins. Between 1991 and 1996 she played Julie Corrigan's mother in Grange Hill and in 1997 took small roles in episodes of Where the Heart Is and Chalk. Her film credits included roles in Nutcracker (1982), Little Dorrit (1987) and Consuming Passions (1988).

Warne died on 13 January 2017 on the Isle of Wight.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Hammer House of Horror
  • London's Burning

Known For

  • The Fool

Filmography

1997
Where the Heart Is (TV Series) · as Mrs Shelley
1997
Chalk (TV Series) · as Miss Murray
1994
Martin Chuzzlewit (TV Series) · as Mrs. Brownlow
1990
1990
No Job for a Lady (TV Series) · as Mrs. Jarrett
1989
Bodger and Badger (TV Series)
1988
The Firm · as Ethel Bissell
1988
Consuming Passions · as Fat Lady
1988
London's Burning (TV Series) · as Iris Gummer
1987
Little Dorrit · as Mrs. Chivery, Tobacconist
1987
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Series) · as Edna
1987
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery (TV Series) · as Mrs. Coffin
1986
Executive Stress (TV Series)
1985
EastEnders (TV Series) · as Peggy Mitchell
1984
Screen Two (TV Series) · as Ethel
1984
The Bill (TV Series)
1983
Tucker's Luck (TV Series) · as Madge Cooper
1982
Nutcracker · as Madame Olga
1982
The Agatha Christie Hour (TV Series) · as Flower Seller
1981
It Takes A Worried Man (TV Series) · as Mrs. Kingsley
1981
Fanny by Gaslight (TV Series) · as Mrs. Beckett
1981
Never the Twain (TV Series) · as Linda Preston
1980
Hammer House of Horror (TV Series) · as 1st Mother
1980
Lady Killers (TV Series) · as Martha Styles
1979
Minder (TV Series) · as Brenda
1979
Agony (TV Series) · as Elsie
1978
Grange Hill (TV Series) · as Mrs. Corrigan
1976
Our Mutual Friend (1976) (TV Series) · as Mrs. Podsnap
1975
The Sweeney (TV Series) · as Gloria Bartley
1974
Within These Walls (TV Series)
1971
Follyfoot (TV Series) · as Onion Woman
1963
The Dick Emery Show (TV Series) · as Cast
1955
Dixon of Dock Green (TV Series) · as Mrs. Garson

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