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.

Filmography

• 2021Everybody's Talking About Jamie — Mrs. Cardwell
• Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators — Emilia Merchant
• 2018Walk Like a Panther — Mabel Higgins
• Ackley Bridge — Julie "Nana" Booth
• The Syndicate — Nanna
• Trollied — Margaret
• 2009In the Loop — Mrs Michaelson
• Red Riding — Aunty Win
• 2009Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 — Aunty Win
• Sunshine — Doreen
• 2004Nits — Nan
• Early Doors — Jean Dixon
• The Royal — Aunt Mary Graham
• Fat Friends — Joan Kirk
• 1999Fanny & Elvis — Rick's Mother
• 1997Sharpe's Justice — Mrs. Trent
• Hetty Wainthropp Investigates — Supermarket Shopper
• 1996When Saturday Comes — Mabel
• Heartbeat — Mrs. Nelly Sneddon
• Children's Ward — Mags
• 1987Scab — Janice
• Edge of Darkness — Tea Lady
• 1984Threads — Mrs. Kemp
• The Gathering Seed — Martha Kilbride
• 1982England's Greens and Peasant Land — Pat, Writer
• 1981Looks and Smiles — Receptionist
• 1981One Hundred and Eighty!!! — Writer
• 1980The Gamekeeper — Mary
• 1977The Price of Coal, Part 1: Meet the People — Kath Storey
• 1977The Price of Coal, Part 2: Back to Reality — Kath Storey
• Playhouse — Writer
• Last of the Summer Wine — Celia
• Play for Today — Writer

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2025Survivors: The Spectre of Threads — Self