Paula Wilcox - wikipedia Paula Wilcox Paula Wilcox Mary Paula Wilcox ( 1949 - 12 - 13 ) 13 December 1949 ( age 67 ) Manchester, Lancashire, England Occupation Actress Spouse ( s ) Derek Seaton ( 1970 - 79 ; his death ) Nelson `` Skip '' Riddle ( 1991 - present ) Mary Paula Wilcox ( born 13 December 1949 ) is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Chrissy Plummer in the British comedy Man About the House ( 1973 -- 1976 ) and later as Hilary Potts in Emmerdale. Contents 1 Acting career 2 Personal life 3 Television roles 4 References 5 External links Acting career Wilcox first came to public attention whilst a member of the National Youth Theatre, which she joined aged seventeen. She appeared in Coronation Street in 1969 as Ray Langton 's sister Janice. She was offered her first starring television role in The Lovers, a Granada sitcom produced for the ITV network largely written by Jack Rosenthal and co-starring Richard Beckinsale. There were two series of The Lovers, plus a feature film. She appeared in an episode of The Benny Hill Show ( Thames ) broadcast on 23 February 1972. Wilcox was cast in one of the lead roles of Man About the House ( Thames, 1973 -- 76 ) as Chrissy Plummer, who was regularly in a flirtatious battle of wits with her male flatmate Robin, played by Richard O'Sullivan. The series ran for six series and the main cast also featured in the spin - off feature film. Her follow - up role was as the eponymous single mother in Miss Jones and Son ( 1977 -- 78 ). In 1991, Wilcox returned to situation comedy as Ros West in a Yorkshire Television sitcom called Fiddlers Three opposite Peter Davison before playing the character of Ivy Sandford in the pilot of Frank Skinner 's Blue Heaven on Channel 4 in 1992 - the show then went on to become a series. She appeared in several series of The Queen 's Nose ( 1995 -- 2001 ), and also played small roles in the films The Higher Mortals ( 1993 ) and the Woody Allen movie Scoop ( 2006 ). On 27 October 2006, Wilcox appeared in the Only Fools and Horses spin - off The Green Green Grass as Marlene 's sister. She has also played another character in the Only Fools and Horses universe, appearing in 2 episodes of Rock and Chips, playing Edward `` Grandad '' Trotter 's estranged wife Violet. In 2007 Wilcox joined the cast of Emmerdale as Hilary Potts, mother of the vicar 's wife, Laurel Thomas ( Charlotte Bellamy ). In 2008, Wilcox portrayed Bette Davis in a theatrical play, Whatever Happened to the Cotton Dress Girl ?. In 2010, she portrayed a mother of a gay son in a theatrical play, Canary. In November 2010, Wilcox took the leading role as a Liverpudlian private eye in Following from the Front, a BBC radio play first broadcast in November 2010 and again in January 2015 She has played Pauline Johnson in the Sky1 sitcom series Mount Pleasant since 2011. In addition to her other work, Wilcox has made guest appearances in programmes such as Footballers ' Wives, Holby City and Down to Earth. She was cast as Lilian in the BBC Three sitcom The Smoking Room. In 2014, she had a starring role in the comedy series Boomers and the following year she had a role in an episode of Still Open All Hours. Personal life Wilcox was married to actor Derek Seaton from 1970 to 1979 ( his death ). She later married Nelson `` Skip '' Riddle, son of the bandleader and arranger Nelson Riddle. Television roles Year Title Role Notes 1969 Coronation Street Janice Langton 1969 to 1970 The Dustbinmen Naomi 1970 to 1971 The Lovers Beryl Battersby 1971 to 1972 The Liver Birds Gloria Titlark 1973 to 1976 Man About the House Chrissy Plummer Regular role ; 39 episodes 1977 to 1978 Miss Jones and Son Elizabeth Jones 1985 The Bright Side Cynthia Bright 1991 Fiddlers Three Ros West 1992 to 1994 Blue Heaven Ivy Sandford 1995 - 2001 The Queen 's Nose Mrs Parker Footballers ' Wives Marguerite Laslett 2004 to 2005 The Smoking Room Lillian 2006 The Large Family Mrs. Large ( voice ) 2006 The Green Green Grass Pertunia Lane 2007 -- 2008 Emmerdale Hilary Potts Regular role ; 40 episodes 2008 A Touch of Frost Gloria Collingham 2010 to 2011 Rock & Chips Violet Trotter 2011 - 2017 Mount Pleasant Pauline 2014 Jonathan Creek Hazel Prosser 2014 - 2016 Boomers Carol 2015 Still Open All Hours Linda 2016 Upstart Crow Mary Shakespeare References ^ Jump up to : Neil Cooper ( 7 November 2012 ). `` What the Dickens ? ''. Herald Scotland. Retrieved 21 October 2014. Jump up ^ `` Paula Wilcox. '' United Kingdom : Castaway.org.uk. Web. 9 January 2012. Jump up ^ `` Paula Wilcox has Great Expectations about playing Miss Havisham at Birmingham 's New Alexandra Theatre `` Express & Star ''. Expressandstar.com. 8 October 2012. Retrieved 23 November 2013. Jump up ^ `` The Benny Hill Show - Season 3, Episode 3 : Show 12 ''. TV.com. 23 July 2007. Retrieved 23 November 2013. Jump up ^ Lorraine Fisher ( 10 January 2009 ). `` As he grows worryingly frail, Richard O'Sullivan's former co-star and lover says... I still love my Man About The House ''. Daily Mail. Retrieved 23 November 2013. Jump up ^ `` Paula Wilcox as single mum in Miss Jones and Son - Sally Thomsett Videos : Firstpost Topic - Page 1 ''. Firstpost.com. Retrieved 23 November 2013. Jump up ^ `` Paula Wilcox : Actress - Films, episodes and roles on ''. Digiguide.tv. 13 December 1949. Retrieved 23 November 2013. Jump up ^ `` Great Expectations for Paula Wilcox in Havisham role ''. Woking News and Mail. 17 September 2012. Retrieved 23 November 2013. Jump up ^ Curley, Evelyn ( 19 June 2008 ). `` Whatever Happened to the Cotton Dress Girl ? ''. The Stage. Retrieved 12 June 2012. Jump up ^ High, Chris ( 30 April 2010 ). `` Canary ''. The Stage. Retrieved 12 June 2012. Jump up ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jlg3 Jump up ^ Gordon, Bryony ( 11 August 2014 ). `` Paula Wilcox : ' These days it 's the old ones who are naughty ' ''. Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 11 August 2017. External links Paula Wilcox on IMDb VIAF : 61751951 LCCN : no2011081282 ISNI : 0000 0001 1935 2290 BNF : cb140670328 ( data ) MusicBrainz : 39bc52ce - 360a - 4548 - 8c08 - 64e28dd976de Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paula_Wilcox&oldid=814080169 '' Categories : 1949 births Living people English television actresses English soap opera actresses English stage actresses 20th - century English actresses 21st - century English actresses Audio book narrators Actresses from Manchester National Youth Theatre members Hidden categories : Use British English from January 2015 Use dmy dates from August 2017 Articles with hCards Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Español Nederlands Suomi Edit links This page was last edited on 6 December 2017, at 20 : 05. 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Question: who played chrissy in man about the house
Answer: Mary Paula Wilcox