Jacques started her career in 1944 with an appearance at the Players' Theatre in London, but came to national prominence through her appearances on three highly popular radio series on the BBC: with Tommy Handley on It's That Man Again with ventriloquist Peter Brough on Educating Archie and then with Tony Hancock on Hancock's Half Hour. She is best known as a regular of the Carry On films, where she typically played strict, no-nonsense characters, but was also a prolific television and radio performer. Hattie Jacques ( / dʒ eɪ k s/ born Josephine Edwina Jaques 7 February 1922 – 6 October 1980) was an English comedy actress of stage, radio and screen.
