Background
Anne Gwendolyn Craig was born in Sacriston, County Durham the daughter of farmer George Craig and his wife Anne (née Lindsay).
Anne Gwendolyn Craig was born in Sacriston, County Durham the daughter of farmer George Craig and his wife Anne (née Lindsay).
She attended Durham High School for Girls, initially as a day pupil and later as a boarder, which she revisited on 13 October 2007 to open a new building that had been named after her. When she was twelve years old the family moved to Picton and she attended nearby Yarm Grammar School.
She played the recurring role of Matron in the television series The Royal (2003-2011). She passed the Eleven Plus examination and went to Darlington High School. She trained as an actress at the Central School of Dramatic Artist
From the mid-1950s Craig appeared in British films such as and with Bette Davis, but it was her appearances in British sitcoms of the late 1960s/1970s which led to her becoming a household name, usually playing a scatty middle class housewife.
Then came Butterflies (1978), a comedy on BBC2. Twenty years later, she played a hospital matron in Independent Television"s The Royal (2003-2011).
However, she has continued to be associated with comedy, having taken one of the leading roles as Annie in Brighton Belles (1993-1994), the United Kingdom"s short-lived version of The Golden Girls. She appeared as Reggie"s mother in the BBC1 comedy Reggie Perrin (2009, Series 1 and 2010, Series 2), an update of the 1970s" series The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.
In 2012 Craig appeared as a guest in Episode 12 of the Series Masterchef, along with many other 1970s sitcom stars.
In January 2014 she appeared in an episode of the British Broadcasting Corporation popular drama Waterloo Road. In 2016 she appeared as Mary Goodman in the British Broadcasting Corporation television series Death in Paradise episode 5.5.