Wendy Richard MBE (born "Wendy Emerton" on 20th July 1943 in Middlesbrough, died 26th February 2009 in London) appeared as a Girl with a Dog in Rustle of Spring, an episode of the Coronation Street comedy spin-off series Pardon the Expression, transmitted in April 1966.
She also appeared as Veronica Woods in A Big Hand For A Little Lady, an episode of the programme's second spin-off series Turn out the Lights, transmitted in January of the following year.
An only child, her parents were publicans and after various changes of school, she was enrolled at The Royal Masonic School for Girls in Rickmansworth following the death of her father. She left at the age of fifteen and enrolled at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London. While there, she worked as a model, picking up magazine assignments and found brief chart fame in the early 1960s, appearing on Mike Sarne's hit record "Come Outside".
Best remembered as Joyce Harker in The Newcomers, Miss Brahms in Are You Being Served? and its follow-up Grace & Favour and as Pauline Fowler in EastEnders, her other television credits included roles in Harpers West One, Dixon of Dock Green, Six, No Hiding Place, Dad's Army, Both Ends Meet, Not on Your Nellie, Hogg's Back, Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time, Benidorm, Marple and Here Comes the Queen.
Film roles included Help! (with The Beatles), Doctor in Clover, No Blade of Grass, On the Buses, Gumshoe, Don't Just Lie There, Say Something, Naughty Girls, Are You Being Served? and three instalments of the Carry on strand.
She was appointed MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours, 2000, for services to Television Drama.