Congratulations to Anne Reid who is recognised in the King's New Year Honours list 2025
Congratulations to graduate Anne Reid who was recognised in the King's New Year Honours list 2025 with a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).
Anne has a wide-reaching career and is perhaps best known for television roles including Coronation Street, Dinnerladies, Last Tango in Halifax and Wallace and Gromit.
Between 2012 and 2020 she played Celia Dawson in Last Tango In Halifax, in which she and Alan Buttershaw, played by Sir Derek Jacobi, rekindle their childhood romance in their 70s, after they have been widowed. She was nominated for a TV BAFTA for best actress for the role.
She received a BAFTA film nomination for best actress in a leading role for the 2003 film The Mother, in which she played a woman who discovers romance with a younger man, played by Daniel Craig, after the death of her husband, and the impact it has on her children.
She also received a TV BAFTA best actress nomination for the 2023 true crime drama The Sixth Commandment, which explored the deaths of Ann Moore-Martin and Peter Farquhar in Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire, and also featured Timothy Spall.
Other movie roles have included Wendolene Ramsbottom, Wallace’s love interest, who first appeared in Wallace And Gromit short film A Close Shave (1995), village florist Leslie Tiller in Hot Fuzz (2007), and the TV film role of romance novelist Dame Barbara Cartland in 2000’s In Love With Barbara.
She appeared in BBC science fiction series Doctor Who as a shape-shifting villain in the 2007 episode Smith and Jones, and in Ladies of Letters, Sanditon, Years and Years and Bleak House.
Reid is also known for BBC One drama Five Days, in which she played a mother, Jen Mason, who is beginning to show early signs of Alzheimer’s but also finds romance.
She appeared in a production of Hedda Gabler at London’s Old Vic and the National Theatre’s production of Happy Now?
She will next appear in Riot Women, about middle-aged punk rockers.
Reid was made an MBE in the 2010 Birthday Honours and is recognised for her services to drama.
