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Elizabeth "Liz" Smith (b. Scunthorpe,
North Lincolnshire on 11 December 1921) is a English actress best
known for her roles in the sitcoms The Vicar of Dibley
and The Royle Family.
She arrived on the screen in the early 1970s as a mature actress,
having spent most of her life raising her two children. She has
four grandchildren and lives in Hampstead, England.
She first made her mark as the downtrodden mother in Mike Leigh's
Play For Today: Hard Labour, in 1973. She has since
appeared in many mainstream British TV shows including I
Didn't Know You Cared, Within These Walls, The
Bill, 2point4 Children, The Vicar of Dibley and
The Royle Family as well as playing 'Compo's Date' in
one of the first episodes of "Last of the Summer Wine"
in 1973.
She has appeared in such films as A Private Function (for
which she won a BAFTA Award as Best Supporting Actress), Secrets
and Lies and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. She
also provided the voice for the character Mrs. Mulch in the
animated film Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
Her autobiography Our Betty was published in 2006.
Trivia
Liz played Mrs. Dilber in both the 1984 version of A
Christmas Carol with George C. Scott, and the 1999 version
starring Patrick Stewart.
She did not work professionally as an actress until the age of 50,
having spent most of her life bringing up two children on her
own, working in dead-end jobs and living in relative poverty.
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Editor's note: Liz announced her retirement from acting in 2009.
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