Jo Warne

Josephine Margaret Warne (2 January 1938 – 13 January 2017), better known as Jo Warne, was an English actress, who played Peggy Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, making her first appearance on 30 April 1991. She appeared in ten EastEnders episodes between April and July 1991, as part of Sam and Ricky's teen elopement storyline. Barbara Windsor later took on the full-time role of Peggy Mitchell until 2016.

Jo Warne
Born
Josephine Margaret Warne

2 January 1938
Hammersmith, London, England
Died13 January 2017 (aged 79)
Isle of Wight, England
OccupationActress
Years active1970–1998
TelevisionEastEnders (1991)
Grange Hill (1991–1996)

Warne appeared in the last episode of the 1970s police series, The Sweeney, as Gloria Bartley, Jack Regan's ex-girlfriend. She also appeared in an episode of the critically acclaimed drama Minder (1980), ITV's Hammer House of Horror in the episode The House That Bled to Death, episode 8 of The Bill,[1] and Series 8 of Bodger and Badger as Mrs Bobbins. Between 1991–1996 she played Julie Corrigan's mother in Grange Hill and in 1997 took small roles in episodes of Where the Heart Is and Chalk. Her film credits included roles in Nutcracker (1982), Little Dorrit (1987) and Consuming Passions (1988). Warne died in January 2017 on the Isle of Wight.[2]

References
  1. "Rough in the Afternoon". movie-dude.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  2. WARNE, JOSEPHINE MARGARET 1938 GRO Reference: DOR Q3/2017 in Isle Of Wight (556-1A) Entry Number 515931149


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