Acting
Community Rating
5.4
TMDB estimate
Born
May 20, 1922
Died
October 30, 2000 (age 78)
Born in
Hampstead, London, England, UK
Elizabeth Bradley (20 May 1922 – 30 October 2000) was an English actress. She played Maud Grimes in the British soap opera Coronation Street. Bradley was born Joan Abraham in Macclesfield, Cheshire, the daughter of a senior civil servant, and took her father's middle name as her stage surname. She started acting professionally at the age of 23. Bradley's played wheelchair-using pensioner Maud Grimes in Coronation Street from 1993 to 1999. The character was described as a battle-axe and was once called "the mother-in-law from hell". She filmed 476 episodes during this time. Bradley had previously played character Councillor Adams in the soap in 1978, but was credited then as Margaret Bradley. She has also made TV appearances in London's Burning, The Bill, Casualty, Bad Girls and The Sweeney. Her film roles included Four Dimensions of Greta and The Flesh and Blood Show (both 1972) with director Pete Walker, and as the old woman who encounters a naked David Naughton at London Zoo in An American Werewolf in London (1981). She was also a successful theatre actress, obtaining an Olivier Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her role in a National Theatre production of Billy Liar.

Bad Girls
as Mrs. Foster
1999

Memento Mori
as Mrs Anthony
1992
Resnick: Lonely Hearts
as Vera Barnett
1992

The Piglet Files
as Mrs Russell
1990

Casualty
as Mrs. Daniels
1986

The Bill
1984
Leaving
as Mrs. Ford
1984

Brimstone & Treacle
as Woman Passer By
1982

Shine on Harvey Moon
as Lady in Gallery
1982

London Is Drowning
as Mum
1981

An American Werewolf in London
as Woman in Zoo
1981

Tales of the Unexpected
as Mrs Bradley
1979

Waterloo Sunset
as Nelly
1979

A Traveller In Time
as Aunt Tissie / Dame Cicely
1978

No Hard Feelings
as Mrs Etheridge
1976

In This House of Brede
as Dame Margaret
1975

The Sweeney
as Mrs. Hibberd
1975

Van der Valk
as Hannah
1972

The Four Dimensions of Greta
as Mrs. Schickler
1972

Davey Jones' Locker
as Mrs Haddock
1965