Rita May

Rita May

Born: May 9, 1942
in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
Rita May is an English film and television actress and singer, best known for playing supermarket employee Maragaret in the comedy series "Trollied". She's also the only original cast remember who appeared in all episodes on the drama series "Children's Ward" from 1989 to 2000.

Movies for Rita May...

Everybody's Talking About Jamie
Title: Everybody's Talking About Jamie
Character: Mrs. Cardwell
Released: September 10, 2021
Type: Movie
Jamie New is 16 and doesn’t quite fit in—instead of pursuing a "real" career he dreams of becoming a drag queen. Uncertain about his future, Jamie knows one thing for sure: he is going to be a sensation. Supported by his loving mom and his amazing friends, Jamie overcomes prejudice, beats the bullies and steps out of the darkness, into the spotlight.
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Walk Like a Panther
Title: Walk Like a Panther
Character: Mabel Higgins
Released: March 9, 2018
Type: Movie
A group of 1980s wrestlers are forced to don the lycra once last time when their beloved local pub is threatened with closure.
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Title: Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators
Character: Emilia Merchant
Released: February 26, 2018
Type: TV
Frank Hathaway, a hardboiled private investigator, and his rookie sidekick Lu Shakespeare form the unlikeliest of partnerships as they investigate the secrets of rural Warwickshire's residents.
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Title: Ackley Bridge
Character: Julie "Nana" Booth
Released: June 7, 2017
Type: TV
A new academy school in a Yorkshire mill town merges the lives and cultures of the largely divided white and Asian community
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Title: The Syndicate
Character: Nanna
Released: March 27, 2012
Type: TV
A drama exploring how winning the lottery transforms the lives of ordinary people.
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Title: Trollied
Character: Margaret
Released: August 4, 2011
Type: TV
Set in Valco, a fictional budget supermarket in the north west of England, Trollied finds the funny in one of our most familiar surroundings and focuses on the types of characters we all recognise: bored checkout staff, ineffectual managers and a range of customers, from the irate to the downright bizarre.
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Title: Red Riding
Released: March 12, 2009
Type: TV
Thrilling trilogy of films based on David Peace's cult noir novels about Yorkshire during the 1970s and 80s: a world of paranoia, corruption and the terrifying legacy of the Ripper murders.
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Title: Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Character: Aunty Win
Released: February 28, 2009
Type: Movie
Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions. When young Clare Kemplay goes missing, Eddie and his colleague, Barry, persuade their editor to let them investigate links with two similar abductions that draw them into a deadly world of secrecy, intimidation, shocking revelations and police brutality.
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In the Loop
Title: In the Loop
Character: Mrs Michaelson
Released: January 22, 2009
Type: Movie
The US President and the UK Prime Minister are planning on launching a war in the Middle East, but—behind the scenes—government officials and advisers are either promoting the war or are trying to prevent it.
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Title: Sunshine
Character: Doreen
Released: October 7, 2008
Type: TV
Sunshine is a three-part comedy drama that began on 7 October 2008 on BBC1 from the co-writers of The Royle Family and Early Doors. These co-writers, Craig Cash and Phil Mealey, also appear in the series.
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Nits
Title: Nits
Character: Nan
Released: December 3, 2004
Type: Movie
A 7-year-old boy (Jonathan Mason) struggles to understand why his mother, newly returned from hospital, isn't giving him the attention he craves.
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Title: Early Doors
Character: Jean Dixon
Released: May 12, 2003
Type: TV
A sitcom set in a small pub in Manchester, “The Grapes”, where daily life is bound up in the issues of love, loneliness, and blocked urinals. Regular drinkers Joe and Duffy pass the time with landlord Ken and his police officer cronies.
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Title: The Royal
Character: Aunt Mary Graham
Released: January 19, 2003
Type: TV
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.
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Fanny & Elvis
Title: Fanny & Elvis
Character: Rick's Mother
Released: November 19, 1999
Type: Movie
Yorkshire writer Kate finds out her biological clock is ticking down the same day that her husband leaves her. To get over the financial crisis this creates she takes in car-dealer Dave. He's homeless as Kate's husband has moved in with his wife. This leaves the problem of how to get promptly pregnant. Surely not with increasingly interesting Dave. They can't even agree on a baby's name - he thinks Fanny is silly and she finds Elvis, well, inconceivable.
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When Saturday Comes
Title: When Saturday Comes
Character: Mabel
Released: March 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Jimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working down the pit or in a factory. But Jimmy has other ideas - he dreams of becoming a professional footballer. Confronted by a bitter and unsupportive father, hard drinking friends and a lifetime of bad habits...has Jimmy the will to achieve his ultimate goal?
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Title: Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Character: Supermarket Shopper
Released: January 3, 1996
Type: TV
Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her husband, and her pocketbook, this senior sleuth takes on all the cases the police deem too minor.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Mrs. Nelly Sneddon
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: TV
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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Title: Children's Ward
Character: Mags
Released: March 15, 1989
Type: TV
Children's Ward is a British children's television drama series produced by Granada Television and broadcast on the ITV network as part of its Children's ITV strand on weekday afternoons. The programme was set – as the title suggests – in Ward B1, the children's ward of the fictitious South Park Hospital, and told the stories of the young patients and the staff present there. Aimed at older children and teenagers, Children's Ward was a long-lived series for a children's drama, starting life in 1988 as a contribution to the Dramarama anthology strand, "Blackbird Singing In The Dead of Night", then first broadcast as a series 1989 and running from then until 2000. The series was conceived by Granada staff writers Paul Abbott and Kay Mellor, both of whom went on to enjoy successful careers as award-winning writers of adult television drama. At the time, they were both working on the soap opera Coronation Street, and had recently collaborated on a script for Dramarama. Abbott, who had been through a troubled childhood himself, had initially wanted to set the series in a children's care home rather than a hospital, but this was vetoed by Granada executives. During the course of its run, however, Children's Ward won many plaudits for covering difficult issues such as cancer, alcoholism, drug addiction and child abuse in a sensitive manner. The programme won many awards, including in 1996 a BAFTA Children's Award for Best Drama, won by an episode in which a serial killer lures children to him via the internet and is – highly unusually for children's television – not eventually caught.
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Scab
Title: Scab
Character: Janice
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Drama based on events during the 1984/85 miners strike. One of the first dramatised accounts, it was written by Geoffrey Case and directed by Gordon Flemyng for Yorkshire Television and won the Rai award at the Prix Italia and the Prix Futura at the Berlin Film Festival in 1987.
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Threads
Title: Threads
Character: Mrs. Kemp
Released: September 23, 1984
Type: Movie
Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.
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Title: The Gathering Seed
Character: Martha Kilbride
Released: September 7, 1983
Type: TV
The saga of Manchester lad Joe Henshaw, a story that takes in family life, the trials and tribulations of the Labour movement and World War Two
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England's Greens and Peasant Land
Title: England's Greens and Peasant Land
Character: Pat
Released: January 5, 1982
Type: Movie
A planning decision must be made, and the motorway extension must go through on either the Golf Course or the Allotments - will the greens survive or the peasant lands?
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Looks and Smiles
Title: Looks and Smiles
Character: Receptionist
Released: September 9, 1981
Type: Movie
Thatcherism and the Irish troubles provide the backdrop for this study of Mick, a well-meaning youth in Sheffield, who has, unlike Dickens' Pip, no expectations. Mick lives with his parents, works on his motorbike, looks for work, and every two weeks gets his check from the dole. There are no jobs. His best mate Alan joins the army to fix tanks and is sent to Belfast to quell Catholics. At a disco, Mick meets Karen, who works at a shoe shop and lives with her recently-separated mom. Karen misses her dad. She offers Mick emotional stability and a route to adulthood; Alan pitches the army. Does Mick have a future?
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The Gamekeeper
Title: The Gamekeeper
Character: Mary
Released: September 20, 1980
Type: Movie
George Purse is the gamekeeper for the duke's estate, a role he takes seriously. His position gives him a certain status, but he has an uneasy relationship with some of the locals, not least those who turn to poaching
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The Price of Coal: Part 2 – Back To Reality
Title: The Price of Coal: Part 2 – Back To Reality
Character: Kath Storey
Released: April 5, 1977
Type: Movie
A month after the royal visit, the workers at Milton Colliery are brought crashing back down to earth by an underground explosion.
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The Price of Coal: Part 1 – Meet the People
Title: The Price of Coal: Part 1 – Meet the People
Character: Kath Storey
Released: March 29, 1977
Type: Movie
The workers of Milton Colliery prepare for a royal visit from Prince Charles.
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Title: Last of the Summer Wine
Character: Celia
Released: January 4, 1973
Type: TV
Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire Dales. They spend their days speculating about their fellow townsfolk and thinking up adventures not usually favored by the elderly. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse in 1973. The show ran for 295 episodes until 2010. It is the longest running comedy Britain has produced and the longest running sitcom in the world.