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Diane Keen (born 29 July 1946) is an English
England

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 actress
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
.

Keen is possibly best known for her starring role as Julia Parsons in the British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 TV drama
Drama

Drama is the specific Mode of fiction Mimesis in performance. The term comes from a Ancient Greek word meaning "Action " , which is derived from "to do" ....
 Doctors, since 2003.

She was a regular on TV screens during the 1970s and early 1980s, starring in sitcoms such as The Cuckoo Waltz
The Cuckoo Waltz

The Cuckoo Waltz was a United Kingdom television sitcom made by Granada Television for the ITV network between 1975 and 1980.The series which was set in Manchester, written by Geoffrey Lancashire, produced and directed by Bill Gilmour, dealt with the comic complications that ensue when impoverished newlyweds Chris and Fliss Hawthorne t...
, Rings On Their Fingers
Rings On Their Fingers

Rings On Their Fingers is a British television sitcom, written by Richard Waring. It ran from October 1978 to November 1980....
, Foxy Lady and You Must Be The Husband
You Must Be The Husband

You Must Be the Husband is a United Kingdom comedy television series starring Tim Brooke-Taylor in the title role of Tom Hammond, and Diane Keen as his wife, Alice Hammond, with Sheila Steafel as Alice's literary agent, Miranda Shaw....
, and in two runs of a Thames Television
Thames Television

Thames Television was a Broadcast license of the United Kingdom ITV television network, covering Greater London and parts of Home counties on weekdays from 30 July 1968 until 31 December 1992....
 children's historical costume drama The Feathered Serpent.






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Diane Keen (born 29 July 1946) is an English
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 actress
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
.

Keen is possibly best known for her starring role as Julia Parsons in the British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 TV drama
Drama

Drama is the specific Mode of fiction Mimesis in performance. The term comes from a Ancient Greek word meaning "Action " , which is derived from "to do" ....
 Doctors, since 2003.

She was a regular on TV screens during the 1970s and early 1980s, starring in sitcoms such as The Cuckoo Waltz
The Cuckoo Waltz

The Cuckoo Waltz was a United Kingdom television sitcom made by Granada Television for the ITV network between 1975 and 1980.The series which was set in Manchester, written by Geoffrey Lancashire, produced and directed by Bill Gilmour, dealt with the comic complications that ensue when impoverished newlyweds Chris and Fliss Hawthorne t...
, Rings On Their Fingers
Rings On Their Fingers

Rings On Their Fingers is a British television sitcom, written by Richard Waring. It ran from October 1978 to November 1980....
, Foxy Lady and You Must Be The Husband
You Must Be The Husband

You Must Be the Husband is a United Kingdom comedy television series starring Tim Brooke-Taylor in the title role of Tom Hammond, and Diane Keen as his wife, Alice Hammond, with Sheila Steafel as Alice's literary agent, Miranda Shaw....
, and in two runs of a Thames Television
Thames Television

Thames Television was a Broadcast license of the United Kingdom ITV television network, covering Greater London and parts of Home counties on weekdays from 30 July 1968 until 31 December 1992....
 children's historical costume drama The Feathered Serpent. She also starred as Laura Dickens in the critically-acclaimed spy drama The Sandbaggers
The Sandbaggers

The Sandbaggers is a United Kingdom television drama series about men and women on the front lines of the Cold War. Set contemporaneously with its original broadcast on ITV in 1978 and 1980, The Sandbaggers examines the effect of the espionage game on the personal and professional lives of British and American Military espionage speci...
, as Empress Elizabeth of Austria in Fall of Eagles
Fall of Eagles

Fall of Eagles is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series was created by John Elliot and produced by Stuart Burge....
 and appeared in the spin-off film of the 1970s detective drama, The Sweeney
The Sweeney

The Sweeney was a United Kingdom television police drama focusing on two members of the Flying Squad, an elite branch of the Metropolitan Police Service specialising in combatting armed robbery and violent crime within the Metropolitan Police area in London....
.

In her early career she appeared full frontal nude in the 1973 British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 sex comedy
Sex comedy

Sex comedy is a term for comedy movies with sexual content usually referring to those made in United Kingdom in the mid 1970s. They may refer to comic pornographic films most famous sex comedy movies of the 1970s are 'Confessions of...' starring Robin Askwith such as Confessions of a Window Cleaner it concerns the erotic adventures of Timoth...
, The Sex Thief
The Sex Thief

The Sex Thief is a 1973 in film British sex film starring David Warbeck, Diane Keen and Christopher Biggins. It was an early film credit for director Martin Campbell....
.

After spending much of the 1980s off screen, apart from a long-running series of advertisements for Nescafé
Nescafé

Nescaf? is a brand of instant coffee, made by Nestl?. It comes in the form of many different products. The name is a portmanteau of the words "Nestl?" and "caf?"....
 coffee and an appearance in an episode of Taggart
Taggart

Taggart is a long-running Scotland Detective fiction television programme, created by Glenn Chandler, who has written many of the episodes, and made by STV Productions for the ITV network....
, in the next decade she became a regular in the Inspector Wexford
Inspector Wexford

'Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford' is a recurring character in a series of detective novels by English crime writer Ruth Rendell. He made his first appearance in the author's 1964 in literature debut From Doon With Death, and has since been the protagonist of 20 more stories; his latest outing was the 2007 in literature publication Not in...
 series, playing the wife of Wexford's D.I. A role in Brookside
Brookside

Brookside, commonly referred to as "Brookie", was a soap opera set in Liverpool, England, introduced with the then new British television network, Channel 4....
 followed.

She also played the receptionist at the Feathers Hotel Connelton in Emmerdale Farm in 1972.

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