Patricia Greene

Patricia Honor Greene (born 1931) is an English radio, television and film actress, who is best known as matriarch Jill Archer in radio serial "The Archers". She has played the role continuously since 1957, making her the world's longest serving actor in a soap opera in any medium (radio, television or internet).
Biography.
Greene was born in Allenton, Derby, England. Her family moved to Campion Street in the New Zealand part of the city, where she attended Ashgate Infants School on Ashbourne Road. Later she moved to Kirk Street, Chester Green, attending St Paul's Junior School and the Parkfields Cedars Grammar School.
After working as a ward orderly at the Derbyshire Children's Hospital and in the sheet metal factory of Hawk Industries, she decided to become an actress and went to the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London in 1951.
She has had a lengthy career in radio and film, and is best known for portraying matriarch Jill Archer in the BBC Radio 4 soap "The Archers" since 1957 (originally Jill Patterson). She has also appeared in "Casualty" and "Doctors" both in 2000.
Greene married English actor George Selway in 1959. They were later divorced and she married Cyril Austen Richardson in 1972, by whom she has a son, Charles, born in 1972. She was widowed in 1986.
Greene was awarded the MBE in 2007 and was conferred an honorary Master of Arts degree by the University of Derby in 2017.