Jean Rogers

Jean Rogers (born 2nd February 1942 in Perivale, Middlesex) is an English actress who portrayed Dolly Skilbeck in Emmerdale from April 1980 to August 1991. She took over the role from Katharine Barker.
Raised in Worthing, Rogers decided she wanted to be an actress by the age of nine and practised, ballet, elocution and singing as well as 
drama before applying for drama school aged fifteen. Deemed too young, she applied again two years later and was accepted into the Guildhall School of Drama. She later became a founder member of the Royal National Theatre.
As a presenter, Rogers spent seven years on Radio 4's Listen with Mother, and three years with BBC Schools programme Watch. Her pre-Emmerdale Farm acting roles included soaps Crossroads, General Hospital and Emergency Ward 10, and comedy George and Mildred. Since leaving Emmerdale she has appeared in television shows such as Law and Disorder (1994), Last of the Summer Wine (1999) and in films The Peacemaker (1997) and The Lazarus Child (2005). 
Category:Emmerdale Farm actors