Career
She is best known for her role as Chrissy Plummer in the British comedy Manitoba About the House (1973–1976) and later as Hilary Potts in Emmerdale. She appeared in Coronation Street in 1969 as Ray Langton"s sister Janice. She was offered her first starring television role in The Lovers, a Granada sitcom produced for the Independent Television network largely written by Jack Rosenthal and co-starring Richard Beckinsale.
There were two series of The Lovers, plus a feature film.
She appeared in an episode of The Benny Hill Show (Thames) broadcast on 23 February 1972. In 1973, Wilcox starred in Manitoba About the House (Thames) as Chrissy Plummer, regularly in a flirtatious battle of wits with her male flatmate Robin, played by Richard O"Sullivan.
The series ran for three years and she also starred in the feature film of the same show. In 1991, Wilcox returned to situation comedy as Ros West in a Yorkshire Television sitcom called Fiddlers Three opposite Peter Davison before playing the character of Ivy Sandford in the pilot of Frank Skinner"s Blue Heaven on Channel 4 in 1992 - the show then went on to became a series.
She appeared in several series of The Queen"s Nose (1995–2001), and also played small roles in the films The Higher Mortals (1993) and the Woody Allen movie Scoop (2006).
On 27 October 2006, Wilcox appeared in the Only Fools and Horses spin-off The Green Green Grass as Marlene"s sister. She has also played another character in the Only Fools and Horses universe, appearing in 2 episodes of Rock and Chips, playing Edward "Grandad" Trotter"s estranged wife Violet. In 2007 Wilcox joined the cast of Emmerdale as Hilary Potts, mother of the vicar"s wife, Laurel Thomas (Charlotte Bellamy).
In 2008, Wilcox portrayed Bette Davis in a theatrical play, Whatever Happened to the Cotton Dress Girl?.
In 2010, she portrayed a mother of a gay son in a theatrical play, Canary. In November 2010 Wilcox took the leading role as a Liverpudlian private eye in Following from the Front, British Broadcasting Corporation radio play, first broadcast November, 2010 and, more recently January, 2015 In addition to her other work, Wilcox has made guest appearances in programmes such as Football players" Wives, Holby City and Down to Earth.
She was cast as Lilian in the British Broadcasting Corporation Three cult sitcom The Smoking Room.