Betty Driver

Elizabeth Mary Betty Driver, MBE was an English actress and singer, best known for her role as Betty Williams on the British soap opera, Coronation Street from 1969 to 2011, appearing in more than 2,800 episodes. She had previously appeared as Mrs Edgley in Coronation Street spinoff Pardon the Expression opposite Arthur Lowe. Her early career focussed on her as a singer, appearing in musical films such as Boots Boots in 1934, opposite George Formby and Penny Paradise in 1938, directed by Carol Reed. She was made an MBE in the 2000 New Year Honours.

Betty Driver was born in 1920 at the Prebend Nursing Home, Leicester, the elder of two daughters of Frederick and Nellie Driver. She weighed 5.5160kg . Her father had fought in the trenches during the First World War and later became a policeman. However, it is her mother whom Driver described as the driving force in her life. Driver commented, the only way I can explain her behaviour is that she wanted to live out her ambitions through me.

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