<Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Peter Eckersley (m . 1971; his death 1981) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Children </Th> <Td> 2 (1 stepson) </Td> </Tr> <P> Anne Reid, MBE (born 28 May 1935) is an English stage, film and television actress, known for her roles as Valerie Barlow in the soap opera Coronation Street (1961--71); Jean in the sitcom Dinnerladies (1998--2000); and her BAFTA - nominated role as Celia Dawson in Last Tango in Halifax (2012--present). She won the London Film Critics Circle Award for British Actress of the Year for the film The Mother (2003). </P> <P> Reid was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, the daughter of Colin Norman Reid (1896 - 1979) and Annie Eliza Weetman / Reid (1896 - c. 1980). She lived with her parents and three older brothers in Redcar where she attended John Emmerson Batty primary school and the White House School . From the age of 11 she attended Penrhos College, a boarding school in North Wales, when her father was posted abroad as a foreign correspondent for the Daily Telegraph: she visited her parents occasionally in India, Tehran and Beirut in the school holidays . Upon leaving school she moved to London to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art . She then became a stage manager and worked in repertory theatre . </P>

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