Thorpe (played by Hugh Grant) in BBC Television's A Very English Scandal. In April 2021, it was announced that Hodge would play the role of Mrs. Pumphrey in the television series All Creatures Great and Small taking over from Diana Rigg who had died the previous year. Delayed for a year from autumn 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Hodge was invited by Nigel Havers to star opposite him in Noël Coward's Private Lives, the inaugural production of the Nigel Havers Theatre Company, directed by one of her previous collaborators Christopher Luscombe. Personal life Hodge married music publisher Peter Douglas Owen on 31 July 1976 in Tonbridge. The couple had two sons. Douglas died in May 2016, according to Hodge, from heart complications. Hodge was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to drama. Filmography Film Television Stage No-One Was Saved, 1971 Rookery Nook, 1972 Popkiss, 1972 Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1973 Pippin, 1973 Hair, 1974 The Beggar's Opera, 1975 Pal Joey, 1976 Look Back in Anger, 1976 Then and Now, 1979 The Mitford Girls, 1981 As You Like It, 1983 Benefactors, 1984 Lady in the Dark, 1988 Noël and Gertie, 1989–90 Shades, 1992 Separate Tables, 1993 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1994 A Little Night Music, 1995 Money, 1999–2000 Summerfolk, 1999–2000 Noises Off, 2000–01 His Dark Materials, 2003–04 Dream Me a Winter, 2006 (part of the Old Vic's '24 Hour Plays') Boeing Boeing, 2007 The Country Wife, 2007–08 The Clean House, 2008 Calendar Girls, 2008–09 The Breath of Life, 2011 Dandy Dick, 2012 Relative Values, 2013–14 Travels with My Aunt, 2016 Copenhagen, 2018 A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, 2019 Private Lives, 2021–22 Watch on the Rhine, 2022–23 Awards and nominations References External links 1946 births Living people People from Cleethorpes Laurence Olivier Award winners Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art People educated at St Helen's School English film actresses English stage actresses English television actresses Actresses from Lincolnshire 20th-century English actresses 21st-century English actresses Officers of the Order of the British Empire