Fanny Carby (born "Audrey Thompson" on 2nd February 1925 in Sutton Coldfield, died 20th September 2002 in Camden, London) had two different roles on Coronation Street: she played expectant mother Mary Hornigold in April 1965, then in November 1987 she took the role of Vera Duckworth's domineering mother, Amy Burton, a role she played into the following March.
Fanny's other credits include two parts in the Street spin-off Pardon the Expression (in the episodes The Little Boy Lost and Rustle of Spring) as well as a long list of television credits from the early 1950s onwards including ITV Play of the Week, BBC Sunday-Night Theatre, Crossroads, Adam Adamant Lives!, Till Death Us Do Part, Q9 with Spike Milligan, Dixon of Dock Green, Curry & Chips, On the Buses, Love Thy Neighbour, Angels, Sykes, Juliet Bravo, In Sickness and in Health, The Bill, Middlemarch, Goodnight Sweetheart and Heartbeat.
Film appearances include Oh What A Lovely War!, Sparrows Can't Sing, The Family Way, How I Won The War, One Brief Summer, The Elephant Man and Mrs Dalloway.
She was a founding member of Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop Group and appeared in their first UK production of Oh What A Lovely War!, along with their productions of Every Man in His Humour, Sparrers Can't Sing and Progress to the Park. Other works include The Shoemaker's Holiday, Angelina Pantaloon, The Two Bouquets, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, They Might Be Giants, Measure for Measure and Moll Flanders.