Caroline Mary Aherne was an English comedian, writer and actress. She won BAFTA awards for her work on The Mrs Merton Show and The Royle Family. She also narrated the Channel 4 reality television series Gogglebox. She died of cancer at age 52.
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Caroline Mary Aherne was an English comedian, writer and actress. She won BAFTA awards for her work on The Mrs Merton Show and The Royle Family. She also narrated the Channel 4 reality television series Gogglebox from its inception in 2013 until 8 April 2016. She died of cancer at age 52. She was born in Ealing, London, on 24 December 1963, the second child of Irish parents Bartholomew Edmond ‘Bert’ Aherne, a railwayman with London Transport, and Mary Frances ‘Maureen’ ‘Mary’s’ A herne. She developed her Mrs Merton character with Frank Sidebottom for his show on Piccadilly Radio, where she worked as a receptionist. She made brief appearances in The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer in 1993 and alongside Steve Coogan and John Thomson in a Granada TV pilot entitled The Dead Good Shows. Between 1994 and 1997 she appeared in and wrote for the BBC comedy series The Fast Show.
She co-created and wrote the situation comedy TheRoyle Family, which she co-wrote and directed in its third series from 1998 to 2000. She received BAFTAs for Best Sitcom in 2000 and 2007, and she won the Best Performance in Comedy in 2001 for a Christmas special entitled Back Passage to India. In December 2000 she said that she would not appear on television again, although she would continue to write and direct. She starred alongside Ricky Tomlinson and Sue Johnston in the third series of Royle, starring as their daughter Denise. The series was a commercial and critical success, and ran for three series with a total of twenty episodes as well as five as one-offs at Christmas. She later appeared in a number of other TV shows, including The Only Way Is Essex and The Only way is Essex.
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