Marjorie Yates (born 13 April 1941) is a British actress most famous for her role as Carol Fisher in the Channel 4 drama Shameless. Yates was born in Warwickshire, Birmingham, England. Her acting career began in 1973 with a role in Putting on the Agony in which she starred as 'Marilyn'. The role was followed throughout the 1970s with minor parts in a number of television productions including Z Cars in 1974 and The Sweeney in 1976.

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  • Marjorie Yates (born 13 April 1941) is a British actress most famous for her role as Carol Fisher in the Channel 4 drama Shameless. Yates was born in Warwickshire, Birmingham, England. Her acting career began in 1973 with a role in Putting on the Agony in which she starred as 'Marilyn'. The role was followed throughout the 1970s with minor parts in a number of television productions including Z Cars in 1974 and The Sweeney in 1976. She continued her acting career on stage and television throughout the 1980s and 1990's including minor parts in Great Expectations, Boon, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries and Wycliffe and a leading role in A Very British Coup. During this period, she landed the female lead in the Peter Sellers movie "The Optimist Of Nine Elms" (often named "The Optimist") and starred alongside David Swift in "Couples", a long running, twice weekly day time drama on UK ITV about a marriage guidance counselling service. In 1992 Yates appeared in the Terence Davies film The Long Day Closes. In 2001, Yates appeared on stage in London's West End in Noël Coward's "Star Quality", playing opposite Penelope Keith and Una Stubbs. Yates has had parts in Where the Heart Is in 1997 and Heartbeat in 2000. She has also appeared in The Bill in 1990, 1996, and twice in 2002. Yates won an initially small role in Channel 4 drama Shameless playing the role of Carol Fisher, mother of Veronica in 2004, originally for one episode. After a minor role in No Angels Marjorie was invited back to Shameless on a permanent basis. She starred as Carol from series 2 in December 2004 to the end of series 4 in February 2007. She left the show after three series, when it was decided to axe the Fisher's following the departure of Maxine Peake who played Veronica from the show in 2006. She departed off screen and her character's absence was explained very briefly. Yates has since been starring in theatre productions in England. In July 2008 she appeared in the BBC series Casualty as Val Barnaby in the episode "The things we do for... " Yates was for a time married to Michael Freeman, a former parliamentary candidate for the Labour Party in Finchley and a councillor on Barnet Council. They had two children, but divorced in the 1980s.
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  • Marjorie Yates (born 13 April 1941) is a British actress most famous for her role as Carol Fisher in the Channel 4 drama Shameless. Yates was born in Warwickshire, Birmingham, England. Her acting career began in 1973 with a role in Putting on the Agony in which she starred as 'Marilyn'. The role was followed throughout the 1970s with minor parts in a number of television productions including Z Cars in 1974 and The Sweeney in 1976.
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