Olwen May

Acting

Born January 1, 1963, Lower Agbrigg, Yorkshire, England, UK

Olwen May is an English actress and theatre director, known for Happy Valley (2014), Whoops! (2013), and Inspector George Gently (2007). She played D.C. Joyce Malone in Coronation Street (1960) during the investigation of Frank Foster's alleged rape of Carla Connor. She has also directed several plays. She lives in West Yorkshire with her partner, Kevin Doyle.

Filmography

• 2023Red Sky at Night — Vera
• Halo — Jade
• Slow Horses — Park Receptionist
• A Very British Scandal — Dora
• Miss Scarlet — Ms. Willoughby
• Brassic — Margaret
• The Bay — DC Lou McClaren
• 2018Care — Rebecca
• 2018Kinder — Susan
• 2014Whoops! — Mary Hickson
• The Body Farm — Kay Warner
• Vera — Helen Allenby
• 2008Florence Nightingale — Mother Mary Clare
• 2006Assertion Techniques
• Life on Mars — Mavis Witham
• Waterloo Road — Defence Barrister
• Shameless — Social Worker, Mary Twill
• The Royal — Sheila
• 2000Seeing Red — Harriet
• 1997My Son the Fanatic — Prostitute
• 1994The Trial of Lord Lucan — W.P.C.
• A Touch of Frost — Doctor