The actress and author has triumphed in television (Agony, the British Telecom ads), films (Roman Polanski's The Pianist, on stage (particularly her one-woman show as Joyce Grenfell) and in print (her memoirs and magazine columns). She was married to Bafta Award-winning Jack Rosenthal, who died in 2004. In l999, Maureen Lipman was awarded a CBE and she has won numerous awards for her theatrical and television work.
