Margot Leicester (born September 1949) appeared in Coronation Street in December 2021 and July 2022 as Mimi Halliday, the snobbish, overbearing mother of Phill Whittaker.
Theatre trips in her childhood gave her an interest in acting and after university she began her career in 1975 in repertory around the country. On television, she has also appeared in Second City Firsts, Crown Court, The XYY Man, Sense of Place, Pack of Lies, Shalom Salaam, The Manageress, Perfect Scoundrels, Families, Medics, Chandler & Co, Performance, Ghosts, Casualty, Broken Glass, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, Where the Heart Is, Peak Practice, Kavanagh QC, Touching Evil, Killer Net, King Girl, Harbour Lights, Waking The Dead, Wire in the Blood, Messiah, Spooks, Five Days, Holby Blue, Law & Order: UK, Heartbeat, The Take, Margot, The Bill, Frankie, New Tricks, Doctors, Albion and Holby City.
On film she has appeared in 1408 and the shorts Going Going, Blue Borsalino, Mum and Full Time.
Her list of stage roles includes Bingo, Sell-Out, Antony and Cleopatra, Measure for Measure, An Enemy of the People, The Positive Hour, The Last Yankee, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Broken Glass, The Gospels, The Lucky Ones, Frame 312, Protection, The Laramie Project, Colder Than Here, The Memory of Water, God Only Knows, Coriolanus, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Knot of the Heart, Habeas Corpus, Long Days Journey Into The Night, The Glass Menagerie, To Kill a Mocking Bird, A Conversation, Ghosts, Hamlet, The Sacred Flame, King Charles III, Stories, Albion and Admissions.
