Maureen Lipman (born May 10 1946) is a British actress. She gained increased prominence on television in the 1979 sitcom Agony, in which she played an agony aunt with a predictably troubled private life.

She is famous for her roles on stage and television, particularly for her roles as Joyce Grenfell in her biographical play, and as "Beattie" (a character she named herself from the initials BT) in a long-running series of television commercials for British Telecom (BT).

An ology. He gets an ology and he says he's failed.

You get an ology, you're a scientist!

Maureen Lipman, in a 1980s British Telecom commercial.

She married dramatist Jack Rosenthal in 1974, and has had a number of roles in his works.

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