Patricia Hodge's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Inspector Morse (UK) Lady Hanbury Rumpole of the Bailey (UK) Phyllida 'P… Phyllida 'P… Holding The Fort (UK) Penny Milburn Rich Tea And Sympathy (UK) Julia Merry… Sweet Medicine (UK) Georgina Sw… The Legacy of Reginald Perrin (UK) Geraldine H… The Other 'Arf (UK) Sybilla How…

Main Movie Roles 1996 - The Leading Man 1988 - Just Ask for Diamond 1988 - Sunset 1980 - The Elephant Man

BIOGRAPHY:

Patricia Ann Hodge (born on 29 September 1946 in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire) is an English actor.

Early life
The daughter of the Royal Hotel owner/manager Eric and his wife Marion (née Phillips),Hodge attended Wintringham Girls' Grammar School on Weelsby Avenue in Grimsby and then St. Helen's School, Northwood, Middlesex; before attending Maria Grey College (became West London Institute of Higher Education in 1976 then the Twickenham campus of Brunel University from 1995–2005), Twickenham to train as a teacher. She undertook teaching drama in a primary school for a year, whilst also applying to London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art,.She started at LAMDA when she was 22, being awarded on graduation the Eveline Evans Award for Best Actress.

Career
After graduation, she concentrated on theatre work and 18 months later worked with Bob Fosse on Pippin. However, she found when applying for television work she had become classed as a theatre actress. Having made the break-through in the role of Phyllida (Trant) Erskine-Brown in Rumpole of the Bailey, she found when trying to make the occasional return to theatre work that she had been classed as a television actress. Finding the need to have a flexible career to care for her young children, Hodge made the decision to focus her career on the theatre, and hence is mainly seen on television in focus parts and singular roles in-between chosen different theatre roles.
She has appeared in roles as diverse as in The Naked Civil Servant opposite John Hurt, as Margaret Thatcher in The Falklands Play, and in 2007 as Betty, the wife of tycoon Robert Maxwell, in the BBC TV drama Maxwell opposite David Suchet. She took the female lead in the 1983 film, Betrayal (based on Harold Pinter's play Betrayal), a roman à clef derived from the playwright's affair with broadcaster Joan Bakewell.
She was nominated for a BAFTA for her role in a television adaptation of Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac in 1987, and was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 2000 for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the production of Money at the Royal National Theatre. Hodge is an Honorary Graduate (DLitt) of Brunel University and one of the founder members of the Brunel Club. She is joint President of Grimsby's Caxton Theatre.

Personal life
Hodge married music publisher Peter Douglas Owen on 31 July 1976 in Tonbridge. The couple have two children: Alexander Richard Charles (born March 1989); and Edward Frederick James (born January 1992).

Television roles
1975 The Girls of Slender Means
1975 The Naked Civil Servant
1978-90 Rumpole of the Bailey
1978 Edward and Mrs Simpson
1979 The Professionals, episode "Involvement"
1979-82 Holding the Fort
1979-80, 1981 The Other 'Arf
1980 Nanny
1981 Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
1983 Jemima Shore Investigates
1984 Hay Fever
1985 The Death of the Heart
1986 The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
1986 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes "The Second Stain"
1986 Robin of Sherwood, episode "The Pretender", as Queen Hadwisa
1986 Hotel du Lac
1988 Heat of the Day
1989 Inspector Morse: "Ghost in the Machine"
1989 The Shell Seekers
1989 Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
1991 Rich Tea and Sympathy
1992 The Cloning of Joanna May
1996 The Legacy of Reginald Perrin
2002 The Falklands Play as Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher
2003 Sweet Medicine as Georgina Sweet, the matriarch of the Sweet family in this short-lived ITV drama.
2006 Marple: The Sittaford Mystery
2007 Hustle
2007 Maxwell
2009 & 2010 Miranda

Films
The Disappearance, 1978
Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse, 1978
The Waterloo Bridge Handicap, 1979
The Elephant Man, 1980
Heavy Metal, 1981
Riding High, 1981
Betrayal, 1983
Behind Enemy Lines, 1985
Dust to Dust, 1985
Skin, 1986
92 Grosvenor Street, 1987
Sunset, 1987
Falcon's Maltester, 1987
Thieves in the Night, 1988
Just Ask for Diamond, 1988
Before You Go, 2002

Stage
No-One Was Saved, 1971
Rookery Nook, 1972
Popkiss, 1972
Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1973
Pippin, 1973
Hair, 1974
The Beggar's Opera, 1975
Pal Joey, 1976
Look Back in Anger, 1976
Then and Now, 1979
The Mitford Girls, 1981
As You Like It, 1983
Benefactors, 1984
Lady in the Dark, 1988
Noël and Gertie, 1989–90
Shades, 1992
Separate Tables, 1993
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1994
A Little Night Music, 1995
Money, 1999–2000
"Summerfolk" , 1999–2000
"Noises Off" 2001-02
"His Dark Materials" , 2003–04
Dream Me a Winter, 2006 (part of the Old Vic's '24 Hour Plays')
Boeing Boeing, 2007
The Country Wife, 2007–08
"The Clean House" , 2008
Calendar Girls, 2008


TRIVIA:

• Born in Cleethorps, she grew up in Grimsby, where her parents ran a hotel.
• She was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 2000 (1999 season) for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Money production at the Royal National Theatre, Olivier Stage.