Award-winning actress and comedy writer Ruth Jones (Gavin & Stacey, Tess Of The D'Urbervilles) is lined up to play larger-than-life Carry On actress Hattie Jacques in a new BBC Four drama, Hattie.

WHEN you think about matrons, the chances are that you cast your mind back to the Carry On films and the fearsome figure of Hattie Jacques. The stereotypical matron was a huge woman who had a powerful ...

"There was more to Hattie Jacques than the public persona of the Carry On films," explains Ruth Jones. "I was surprised. I think because most people only know her for playing the austere matron in the ...

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Josephine Edwina Jaques (7 February 1922 – 6 October 1980) was an English comedy actress, known as Hattie Jacques. Starting her career in the 1940s, Jacques first gained attention through her radio ...