Dame Penelope Keith has died aged 86 after being diagnosed with cancer, her family announced.
The legendary TV actress was best known for her roles a snobbish suburbanite Margo Leadbetter in classic British sitcom The Good Life, which launched in 1975, and the widowed aristocrat Audrey Forbes-Hamilton, which first aired in 1979.
In a statement, her family said: “We are deeply saddened to announce that Dame Penelope Keith died peacefully whilst living with cancer at her home in Surrey where she had lived for more than 50 years’.
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