Patricia Maynard is a British actress. She is known primarily for her work on television and in theatre.
Maynard was the second wife of actor Dennis Waterman. They have two daughters, one of whom is the actress Hannah Waterman. Maynard is now married to Jeremy Griggs, a circuit judge in the South West of England.
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. She trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Her first five years were spent in rep and the theatre. One of her first theatrical engagements was in a play Collapse of a Stout Party, written by Trevor Peacock; in 1965, she appeared in The Philanderer in Manchester.
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 Revengers’ Tragedy.
She was at the Bristol Old Vic from 1967–69, where her plays included Blithe Spirit, Comedy of Errors, Venice Preserved (with Alan Bates, Bernard Hepton and Alan Webb), Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton by Dennis Potter, and a musical of Nancy Mitford’s book The Pursuit of Love written by Julian Slade.
She returned to Bristol in 1982, playing Lady India in Anouilh’s Ring Round the Moon.
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