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Pat Keen
English actress (1933–2013)
Patricia Margaret "Pat" Keen (21 October 1933 – 1 March 2013) was an English actress whose career on stage, television and film ran from the 1950s to the 2000s.
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Born in Willesden, Brent, London, Keen trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in the company of the novelist Paul Bailey, and after graduating in 1956, was offered a job at the Oxford Playhouse.[1] Her first West End appearance came with the role of Margaret in the first stage production of Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons in 1960,[1] in which Susannah York was cast in the later film version.[2]
In David Copperfield (1974), a Sunday tea time serial for the BBC, Keen played the "perfect"[1] Clara Peggotty, however the actress was best known for playing strident, bossy middle-aged women throughout the 1970s and 1980s, such as Virginia in the Fawlty Towers episode "The Anniversary" (1979), and as an anxious mother in Clockwise (1986).[3] She was also known for playing Addy (the mother in law) in the TV series Down to Earth (2000–2001).[4]