Patricia Maynard was born in Beighton, Sheffield, and raised in Tooting Bec, South London and went to school in Battersea, just down the road from the Old Vic where she learned her love of Shakespeare.
[1] In 1966, she joined the RSC, the same year as Trevor Nunn and Terry Hands, with appearances as Katharine to Ian Holm’s Henry V and also Castiza in The Revenger's Tragedy.
Her television work has included playing the heroine Cora in The Last of the Mohicans in 1971,[3] the children's science fiction series Escape Into Night as governess Miss Chesterfield in 1972 and the 1974-75 Doctor Who serial Robot, as leading villain Hilda Winters.
[6] Her TV series have included This Year, Next Year about Yorkshire hill farmers,[3] General Hospital, playing the gynaecologist, with Lynda Bellingham, Strike it Rich - two series in the 1980s - and guest appearances in The Sweeney ("Abduction"), Minder[7] (for which she wrote the lyrics to the show's theme song - "I Could Be So Good For You"), Jemima Shore Investigates, The House of Eliott, and Campion.
[8] Maynard is married to Jeremy David Griggs (b.1945) a retired circuit judge (2010) for the region of the South West of England.