Shirley Stelfox

Shirley Stelfox
Born
Shirley Rosemary Stelfox

(1941-04-11)11 April 1941
Died7 December 2015(2015-12-07) (aged 74)
OccupationActress
Years active1954–2015
Known forEmmerdale as Edna Birch
Keeping Up Appearances as Rose
Spouses
Keith Edmundson
(m. 1962; div. 1965)
(m. 1979; died 1997)
Children3

Shirley Rosemary Stelfox (11 April 1941 – 7 December 2015) was an English actress, known for her portrayal of the character Edna Birch, a moralising busybody in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale, and as Rose, the vampy sister of the snobby and overbearing Hyacinth Bucket in the first series of the comedy series Keeping Up Appearances.