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Mary Wimbush

Mary Wimbush was an English actress best known for her role as Julia Pargetter in BBC Radio 4's popular soap opera The Archers. She first acted on radio for the BBC in 1945 and played roles in hundreds of series, serials and plays, including The Governor's Consort, The Mystery of Edwin Drood and The Horse's Mouth; the latter two winning her Best Actress at the 1991 Sony Awards, the radio equivalent of the Oscars Her first film role, in Richard Attenborough’s Oh! What a Lovely War, won her a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the British Academy Film Awards. On TV, she appeared in a variety of high-profile supporting roles, until finding fame as Aunt Agatha in three series of Jeeves and Wooster, with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.