Lilian "Lill" Roughley (born 1949) is an English actress who has appeared on British television since the 1970s.
[1] Her notable roles include Alice in the first series of Mulberry, and as Ella Dawkins in My Hero.
She had minor roles in the 1970s and 1980s in programmes including All the Fun of the Fair, Tales of the Unexpected, Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV, Bergerac and Inspector Morse.
[4] In the following years Roughley appeared in Minder, A Touch of Frost, the film Brassed Off, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, Dinnerladies (a further collaboration with Victoria Wood),[5] Absolutely Fabulous (in the 2001 episode of the series, called "Small Opening",[6] as the "actress" portraying Edina in the play written by Saffron, based on her own life) and Heartbeat.
[9][10] She also played the sexually voracious landlady, Mrs Best, in the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Hut 33 (2007–2009).