Real name: Violet Helen Carson

Born: 1 September 1898 Ancoats, Manchester, England
Died: 26 December 1983 Bispham, Blackpool, England (aged 85)

Was an English actress of radio and television, and a singer and pianist, who had a long and celebrated career as an actress and performer during the early days of BBC radio, and during the latter decades of her life as the matronly gossip Ena Sharples in the British television soap opera Coronation Street.