Lesley Joseph

Lesley Joseph

Lesley Diana Joseph is an English actress and broadcaster. She is best known for playing Dorien Green in the television sitcom Birds of a Feather from 1989 to 1998. Other television credits include Absurd Person Singular and Night and Day. In 2018, she was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical, for the original West End production of Young Frankenstein.

About Lesley Joseph in brief

Summary Lesley JosephLesley Diana Joseph is an English actress and broadcaster. She is best known for playing Dorien Green in the television sitcom Birds of a Feather from 1989 to 1998, and again from 2014 onwards. Other television credits include Absurd Person Singular and Night and Day. Her stage roles include UK touring productions of Thoroughly Modern Millie, Calendar Girls and Annie. In 2018, she was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical, for the original West End production of Young Frankenstein. In August 2016, it was announced that Joseph would take part in the fourteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing.

She was one of four competitors who appeared in the special Christmas edition of The Great British Sewing Bee that was transmitted on New Year’s Eve 2020. Her fellow competitors were Sabrina Grant, Sally Phillips and Vivienne Phillips. She also appeared on the BBC radio show The Boy Friend from 2008 to 2010. She has been a regular newspaper reviewer on This Morning since 2009. She appeared in 2014 series Secrets of the Asylum, a two-part series for ITV. In 2015, Joseph took part in ITV’s celebrity sheep herding series Flockstars, beginning on 30 July.