
Marlene Sidaway is an accomplished British character actress with a career spanning over six decades across television, film, and theatre. She is perhaps most widely recognized for her role as the domineering Brenda Taylor in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street (1990–1992) and as Maureen in the BBC sitcom Mum (2016–2019).

I Want Candy
2007 · as Sobbing Woman

Beautiful Thing
1996 · as Betty

Blackball
2003 · as Fifty-Year Old Lady

Pigs
2024 · as Gran

Me and Orson Welles
2008 · as Grandmother Samuels

Venus
2006 · as Hospital Nurse

The Key
1995 · as Grady

Beloved
1976 · as Sarah

Tom's Midnight Garden
1999 · as Doris Schuster

Allelujah
2023 · as Lucille

Hunting Venus
1999 · as Marge Beake

The Dark Room
1999 · as Mrs Helms

Sink
2018 · as Jean

Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
2004 · as Mrs. Clegg

The Kiss of Death
1977 · as Christine

Whistling Wally
1982 · as Mary

The Magic Toyshop
1987 · as Mrs. Rundle

Testimony of a Child
1989 · as Health Visitor