Education
Reid was educated at Moreton Hall School, a boarding independent school for girls, near the market town of Oswestry in Shropshire, in central England.
Reid was educated at Moreton Hall School, a boarding independent school for girls, near the market town of Oswestry in Shropshire, in central England.
Reid has had a long and distinguished career in theatre, film and television, and worked with Laurence Olivier at the Royal National Theatre. In 1980, she played the long-suffering wife of Trevor Howard in Vivian Stanshall"s Sir Henry at Rawlinson End. She appeared as loud-mouth Madge Harvey in the Independent Television sitcom Benidorm from 2007–2015.
lieutenant was confirmed that Reid would return in Series 8 (2016), however it was only for one episode.
She made an appearance in the final episode of series 1 of British Broadcasting Corporation Two"s 2009 sitcom Psychoville as an old crone. And as an old lady in the 2012 Christmas special edition of Call the Midwife.
She plays Bob Servant"s mother in the BBC4 production Bob Servant She also appeared as the wife of Doctorate.C.I. Frank Haskins in the last series of The Sweeney in the episode "Victims". Reid"s musical theatre credits include the roles of the Beggar Woman in Sweeney Todd in 1993 at the National Theatre, and Jack"s Mother in Into the Woods in 1998 at the Donmar Warehouse.
In 2014 she appeared in Ghost From A Perfect Place by Philip Ridley at the Arcola Theatre and in 2015 as Gower in Pericles at Shakespeare"s Globe.