Lesley Nicol

Lesley Nicol (born 7 August 1953, Manchester, England) is an English actress. She is the voice of Winsome Witch in Jellystone!
== Biography ==
Lesley Nicol was born to a mother who had worked for the BBC Television Service. She was a shy sixteen-year-old girl at St. Elphin's Boarding School in Derbyshire when she expressed a desire to go out and see the world, not, she recalls, to be an actress but to kiss boys. She went to a technical college in Manchester to study for her 'A'-level examinations and, whilst there, she became involved with the Manchester Library Theatre. She was paid one pound a week to play a tiny role as a twelve-year-old boy in George Bernard Shaw's Androcles and the Lion. It was her only role there, but she was encouraged to apply for entry to London's Guildhall School of drama, from where she graduated in the early 1970s.
For several years, she was best known as a stage actress, particularly in musicals, appearing in Mama Mia and Our House, in the show based on the hit songs of Madness, and as Little Buttercup in a revival, with Gary Wilmot, of HMS Pinafore. She was also the original stage neighbor, nosy Auntie Annie, in the play East Is East at the Royal Court, reprising the role in the 1999 film version that was also her movie debut, surprising given her length of acting experience.
She has appeared in guest roles in numerous television series and, circa 2005, she played a character called Aunt-Tea in a short series of commercials for Tetley tea. Since 2010, she has played no-nonsense cook Mrs Patmore in the successful period drama Downton Abbey.
== External Links ==
* Lesley Nicol at the Internet Movie Database
* Official site
 
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