Rita May
Biography
Rita May is an English film and television actress, singer, and writer, best known for playing Mrs Kemp in Threads, Jean in Early Doors and Margaret in Trollied. She's also the only original cast remember who appeared in all episodes of the children's ITV drama series "Children's Ward" from 1989 to 2000.
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Acting History
2021
Everybody's Talking About Jamie as Mrs. Cardwell
2018Walk Like a Panther as Mabel Higgins
2018Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators as Emilia Merchant
2017Ackley Bridge as Julie "Nana" Booth
2012The Syndicate as Nanna
2011Trollied as Margaret
2009Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 as Aunty Win
2009Red Riding as Aunty Win
2009In the Loop as Mrs Michaelson
2008Sunshine as Doreen
2004Nits as Nan
2003Early Doors as Jean Dixon
2003The Royal as Aunt Mary Graham
2000Fat Friends as Joan Kirk
1999Fanny & Elvis as Rick's Mother
1996When Saturday Comes as Mabel
1996Hetty Wainthropp Investigates as Supermarket Shopper
1992Heartbeat as Mrs. Nelly Sneddon
1989Children's Ward as Mags
1987Scab as Janice
1984Threads as Mrs. Kemp
1983The Gathering Seed as Martha Kilbride
1982England's Greens and Peasant Land as Pat
1981Looks and Smiles as Receptionist
1980The Gamekeeper as Mary
1977The Price of Coal, Part 2: Back to Reality as Kath Storey
1977The Price of Coal, Part 1: Meet the People as Kath Storey
1973Last of the Summer Wine as Celia