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Diane Keen (born 29 July 1946) is an English actress, known for her portrayal of Fliss Hawthorne in the
Granada
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sitcom ''
The Cuckoo Waltz
''The Cuckoo Waltz'' is a British television sitcom produced by Granada Television for the ITV network between 1975 and 1980. It was written by Geoffrey Lancashire, and produced and directed by Bill Gilmour.
The series, which was set in 197 ...
'' and
Julia Parsons
Julia Parsons (also McGuire) is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera '' Doctors'', portrayed by Diane Keen. She made her first appearance on 13 January 2003, and departed the show on 18 May 2012, after nine years of appearing in the s ...
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Doctors
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Personal titles
* Doctor (title), the holder of an accredited academic degree
* A medical practitioner, including:
** Physician
** Surgeon
** Dentist
** Veterinary physician
** Optometrist
*Other roles
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''. She also appeared in
Nescafé
Nescafé is a brand of coffee made by Nestlé. It comes in many different forms. The name is a portmanteau of the words "Nestlé" and "café". Nestlé first introduced their flagship coffee brand in Switzerland on 1 April 1938.
History
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advertisements from 1980 to 1989.
Early life and education
Born in London, Keen grew up in
East Africa
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Due to the historical ...
, principally
Tanganyika
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, where her father was a civil engineer.
She attended boarding school and returned to Britain at the age of 19,
where she became a secretary for
The Ivy League's fan club; this led to her releasing a 45 r.p.m. single of "
Sally Go 'Round the Roses
"Sally Go 'Round the Roses" is the name of a 1963 hit by The Jaynetts, a Bronx-based one-hit wonder girl group, released by J&S Records on the Tuff label.
Background
The producer of "Sally Go 'Round the Roses", Abner Spector, was an A&R man for ...
" (credited as Dee King) on the
Piccadilly
Piccadilly () is a road in the City of Westminster, London, to the south of Mayfair, between Hyde Park Corner in the west and Piccadilly Circus in the east. It is part of the A4 road that connects central London to Hammersmith, Earl's Court, ...
label in 1966.
Career
Keen was a regular on television during the 1970s and early 1980s, starring in long-running sitcoms such as ''
The Cuckoo Waltz
''The Cuckoo Waltz'' is a British television sitcom produced by Granada Television for the ITV network between 1975 and 1980. It was written by Geoffrey Lancashire, and produced and directed by Bill Gilmour.
The series, which was set in 197 ...
'', ''
Rings on Their Fingers
''Rings on Their Fingers'' is a British television sitcom, written by Richard Waring. It ran from October 1978 to November 1980.
Plot
It concerns a young unmarried couple (Sandy Bennett and Oliver Pryde) played by Diane Keen
Diane Keen (born ...
'', ''
Shillingbury Tales'' and ''
You Must Be the Husband
''You Must Be the Husband'' is a British comedy television series starring Tim Brooke-Taylor in the title role of Tom Hammond, and Diane Keen as his wife, Alice Hammond, with Sheila Steafel as Alice's literary agent, Miranda Shaw.
Tom and Alice ...
'', and in two runs of the
Thames Television
Thames Television, commonly simplified to just Thames, was a Broadcast license, franchise holder for a region of the British ITV (TV network), ITV television network serving Greater London, London and surrounding areas from 30 July 1968 until th ...
children's historical costume drama ''
The Feathered Serpent''. She also guest-starred in many shows, including ''
The Morecambe and Wise Show'', and featured as Laura Dickens in the spy drama ''
The Sandbaggers
''The Sandbaggers'' is a British spy drama television series about men and women on the front lines of the Cold War. Set contemporaneously with its original broadcast on ITV in 1978 and 1980, ''The Sandbaggers'' examines the effect of espionag ...
''.
Keen had a part in the film ''
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
"Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" (also titled "Mulberry Bush" or "This Is the Way") is an English nursery rhyme and singing game. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7882. It uses the tune which Nancy Dawson danced into fame in ''Th ...
'' (1968) as Claire,
Judy Geeson
Judith Amanda Geeson (born 10 September 1948) is an English film, stage, and television actress. She began her career primarily working on British television series, with a leading role on '' The Newcomers'' from 1965 to 1967, before making he ...
's university student friend, and appeared in an episode of ''
Budgie'' as Barbara, a friend of Budgie's girlfriend. She appeared in the 1977
spin-off film of 1970s TV detective series ''
The Sweeney
''The Sweeney'' is a 1970s British television police drama focusing on two members of the Flying Squad, a branch of the Metropolitan Police specialising in tackling armed robbery and violent crime in London. It stars John Thaw as Detective Ins ...
''. Keen starred as
Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary
Duchess Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie in Bavaria (24 December 1837 – 10 September 1898) was Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary from her marriage to Emperor Franz Joseph I on 24 April 1854 until her assassination in 1898.
Elisabeth was ...
("Sissi") in episode one of the 13-part series ''
Fall of Eagles
''Fall of Eagles'' is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series was created by John Elliot and produced by Stuart Burge. The series portrays historical events from 1848 to 1918, dealing with the ruling dynasties of ...
'' (1974), and played Hilda in ''
The Professionals'' series 1 episode ''
Killer With a Long Arm'' in 1978. In 1980, she appeared as widowed restaurant owner Christina in Series 1 episode ''
The Dessert Song'' of ''
Minder
A minder is the person assigned to guide or escort a visitor, or to provide protection to somebody, or to otherwise assist or take care of something, i.e. a person who " minds".
Government-appointed persons to accompany foreign visitors are of ...
''. She went on to star with David Jason in ''
A Touch of Frost
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''.
Keen starred for ten years in a series of advertisements for
Nescafé
Nescafé is a brand of coffee made by Nestlé. It comes in many different forms. The name is a portmanteau of the words "Nestlé" and "café". Nestlé first introduced their flagship coffee brand in Switzerland on 1 April 1938.
History
Nestl ...
coffee
and made an appearance in an episode of ''
Taggart
''Taggart'' is a Scottish detective fiction television programme created by Glenn Chandler, who wrote many of the episodes, and made by STV Studios for the ITV network. It originally ran as the miniseries "Killer" from 6 until 20 Septembe ...
''. In the next decade, she became a regular in the ''
Inspector Wexford
Chief Inspector Reginald "Reg" Wexford is a recurring character in a series of detective novels by English crime writer Ruth Rendell. He made his first appearance in the author's 1964 debut '' From Doon With Death'', and has since been the prota ...
'' series, playing the wife of Wexford's D.I. Roles in ''
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* Brookside, Edmonton
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'' and several other TV shows followed, including ''
New Tricks
''New Tricks'' is a British television police procedural
The police show, or police crime drama, is a subgenre of procedural drama and detective fiction that emphasizes the investigative procedure of a police officer or department as the ...
''.
Keen has appeared onstage, including in the
Alan Ayckbourn
Sir Alan Ayckbourn (born 12 April 1939) is a prolific British playwright and director. He has written and produced as of 2021, more than eighty full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of ...
play ''
Absent Friends'' at the
Bristol Old Vic
Bristol Old Vic is a British theatre company based at the Theatre Royal, Bristol. The present company was established in 1946 as an offshoot of the Old Vic in London. It is associated with the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which became a fin ...
, and in two acclaimed tours of ''
Same Time, Next Year''. In 2013, she co-starred in a British tour of ''
The Vagina Monologues
''The Vagina Monologues'' is an episodic play written in 1996 by Eve Ensler which developed and premiered at HERE Arts Center, Off-Off-Broadway in New York and was followed by an Off-Broadway run in at Westside Theatre. The play explores cons ...
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Soap opera roles
Keen was a series regular in the
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