Maureen wrote the following in her column in The Guardian on March 10th 2006: I keep reading articles on how to exercise the brain. Crosswords irritate me; I can't think to order. Sudoku is as Sanskrit and card games are a bridge too far. I've had a bottle of ginkgo biloba on my bedside table since 2002, but the only mental exercise I get is figuring out how to line up the arrows on the lid in such a way that they can be opened by a short - tempered and short - sighted human with a very average IQ.
Maureen played American soprano Florence Foster Jenkins, the pitch impaired 1940s performer, in a stage production of Peter Quilt's 'Glorious.'
Maureen co-wrote and starred in three sell out seasons of Re:Joyce, a one woman stage show about Joyce Grenfell.
Maureen has a cameo appearance in the 1985 film 'National Lampoon's European Vacation.'
Maureen played the mother in Roman Polanski's 2002 Oscar winning film 'The Pianist.'
Her performance as Mahrler obsessed Trish in the 1983 adaptation of Willy Russell's play 'Educating Rita' resulted in a BAFTA Best Supporting Actress nomination.
Her first television appearance was in the Peter Collinson 1968 ground breaking drama about unwanted pregnancies, 'Up The Junction.'
in 1995, she was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy performance in the farce 'See How They Run.'
In 2001, Maureen performed in 'The Vagina Monologues' in the West End.
In 1973, Maureen married award winning writer Jack Rosenthal. They were maried for over thirty years until Jack died of cancer in 2004.
Her father was a Jewish taylor.
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