- Born
- Died
- Birth nameJean Dudley
- Nickname
- Little Miss Dynamite
- Lynne Perrie (7 April 1931 - 24 March 2006) was a Yorkshire based actress and singer.
Known as ''Little Miss Dynamite'', due to her vibrant personality, Perrie performed her cabaret act in clubs all around Britain, and in France, Germany, South Africa and the United States throughout the 1960s. In 1964, she appeared as a regular support act for the Beatles, and appeared on the same bill as other emerging stars like Sacha Distel and the Rolling Stones. She also performed eight times at London's Royal Albert Hall. On television, she made appearances on various television variety programmes, including ITV's ''Stars and Garters''.
In 1970, she won critical acclaim for her debut acting role as the neglectful mother in Ken Loach's award-winning film ''Kes''. This led to various television roles, including Mrs. Petty in the ITV comedy series ''Queenie's Castle'' (1970-1972), starring Diana Dors.
Perrie is best remembered for playing Ivy Tilsley (later Brennan) in the UK's flagship soap opera ''Coronation Street'', in which she appeared from 1971-1994.
After she left the ''Street'', Perrie returned to the stage with a new cabaret act and published her best-selling autobiography ''Secrets Of The Street'', appearing on many popular television chat shows to promote it.- IMDb mini biography by: JTM
- SpouseDerrick Barksby(October 14, 1950 - March 24, 2006) (her death, 1 child)
- Children
- RelativesDuggie Brown(Sibling)
- Sister of Duggie Brown.
- At the height of her fame, she suffered a heart attack. Ironically, while undergoing subsequent surgery for a replacement heart valve, actor Peter Dudley, who played her on-screen husband, was admitted to the same hospital and pronounced dead following a stroke.
- In 2001, Lynne was re-admitted to hospital, once again in serious ill-health, reportedly with heart problems.
- Following her departure, Perrie released her biography entitled 'Secrets of the Street', a book which contained candid admission of a string of affairs while married, an alcohol addiction, and the revelation that her son was suffering from the Aids virus. She also appeared in a soft-porn video and became the darling of the chat show circuit before fading into obscurity.
- Yorkshire born entertainer who began as a cabaret singer in the tough working-men's clubs of northern England before landing a string of minor roles in established television serials and eventually achieving stardom with a lead in the acclaimed film, Kes (1969).
- Kes undoubtedly made me because I never had to do another audition after that. I got roles in a string of TV plays including Crown Court, Slattery's Mounted Foot, Queenie's Castle, Follyfoot, The Intruder and Leeds United, where I starred as a shop steward. It even helped me land the part of Ivy in Coronation Street.
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