 Diana Davies (actress)

Diana Davies (born 20 July 1936 in Manchester, Lancashire) is an English actress, best known for playing roles in two long-running ITV soap operas; Norma Ford in "Coronation Street" and Caroline Bates in "Emmerdale Farm" between 1984 and 1999.Amongst her roles prior to becoming a regular in "Emmerdale Farm", Davies portrayed three different characters in the retrospective educational drama "How We Used To Live" between 1969 and 1981; her characters being Mama (1969), Alice Boothroyd (1976) and Mabel Hodgkins (1981).