Joan Hickson height - How tall is Joan Hickson?

As of 2009, she is the oldest actress to play the Agatha Christie character "Miss Marple" being 86 years old when Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1992) premiered on 27th December 1992. Her closest rival is Helen Hayes who was 85 years old when she played the role in Murder with Mirrors (1985) .

Vowed not to do another film after Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery (1989), but was persuaded to return for the final two films in 1991 and 1992. She then retired from the role, believing that she should stop while the programme was still at the peak of its popularity.

A Miss Marple fan, Queen Elizabeth II, awarded her the Order of the British Empire in 1987. After the series closed, Joan recorded audio books of the Christie mysteries.

She began playing this, her best known part, in her late 70s, in a BBC television series which ran from 1984 to 1992.

Won Broadway's 1979 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for "Bedroom Farce."

Appeared as Mrs Kidder with Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple in Agatha Christie's Murder She Said (1961). She later remade the same film as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: 4:50 from Paddington (1987), playing Miss Marple.

Her work gradually included screen roles: The Outsider (1948), The Promoter (1952), The 39 Steps (1959) - over 80 movies in all - but her stage career continued, with parts in three Peter Nichols plays, Noël Coward's "Blithe Spirit" (1976) and and a Tony award supporting actress performance in Alan Ayckbourn's "Bedroom Farce" (1977).

Her first Agatha Christie role was "Miss Pryce" in the play, "Appointment With Death" (1946), which prompted Christie, herself, to write "I hope you will play my dear Miss Marple".

She had two children with her husband Eric Butler - a son, Nicholas (born 1936) and a daughter, Caroline (born 1939).

Her stage career began with provincial theater in 1927, going on to a long series of West End comedies, usually playing the part of a confused or eccentric middle-age woman. She performed at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, at the time London was subject to World War II bombing.

Joan Hickson was born in 1906 at Kingsthorpe, Northampton.