In tragic news, British actress Maggie Fox, known best for her roles in television shows like Coronation Street and Shameless, has died after a 'sudden accident', her writing associate Sue Ryding confirmed in a detailed post on Facebook. Expressing her shock at her comedy partner's death, Sue wrote, "It is with great sadness that I have to announce the death of Maggie Fox, my comedy partner of 40 years and co-Artistic Director of LipService. Maggie passed away yesterday with her family around her. Consequently the Spring Tour of Chateau Ghoul has been cancelled. As you can imagine I am completely heartbroken. I met Maggie when we were Drama students at Bristol University in the 1970's. We were in a very serious production of Ibsen's The Lady From the Sea but for some reason the audience was on the floor laughing. A tragedy for Ibsen (he was good at those) but the launch of an epic comedy partnership. Our theatre company LipService was officially launched in 1985 and we have written 22 original comedies, touring all over the world, managing to have children in between! It's notoriously difficult to present new work in theatre and we are really proud that we managed to do so and to build an audience for it."
Sue further stated, "We are still all in a state of shock as this was very sudden following an accident. We had planned a new digital version of Chateau Ghoul which we had already filmed which will be shared with you later in the year in memory of Maggie, plus some live events using the huge amount of digital footage we thankfully have archived. Details to be published when have a plan. Thank you for supporting us over all these years, we are so lucky to have such a loyal audience. We do hope you will join us to celebrate her comedy genius later in the year."
Maggie Fox made appearances on the popular ITV soap opera Coronation Street four times as a nurse in 1991 while returning as Charmian Grey in 1992, followed by playing Ruth Audsley in 2001 and Judge Travers in 2010. She also starred in the role of a registrar in a 2006 episode of Shameless. Fox gave a memorable performance as Bilson in the ITV period drama, The Forsyte Saga, which was based on the early 20th-century book series by John Galsworthy.
