Lesley Joseph (born 14 January 1946) is an English actress and occasional broadcaster of radio and television.
Joseph was born in Northampton. She is best known for starring in the BBC sitcom Birds of a Feather from 1989 - 1998, where she played Dorien Green, the busty next-door neighbour of the main characters Sharon and Tracy. As the gossipy, nymphomaniac Dorien she was a snobbish Jew, who tried to convey the impression of being happily married...
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Lesley Joseph (born 14 January 1946) is an English actress and occasional broadcaster of radio and television.
Joseph was born in Northampton. She is best known for starring in the BBC sitcom Birds of a Feather from 1989 - 1998, where she played Dorien Green, the busty next-door neighbour of the main characters Sharon and Tracy. As the gossipy, nymphomaniac Dorien she was a snobbish Jew, who tried to convey the impression of being happily married to Marcus, an accountant, but whose chief interest was actually chasing after much younger men. Her character usually dressed in leopard prints or in sexy leather trousers/skirts; a look that was to her mind, though not to those of her friends, stylish and extremely attractive. At the height of her fame, she fronted the National Egg Awareness Campaign in 1993.
Joseph starred in the ITV soap Night and Day from 2001 to 2003, its entire run, playing the show's resident bitch Rachel Culgrin. In 2002, Joseph appeared on a special edition of What...
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