Margaret Courtenay

Margaret Courtenay (14 November 1923 – 15 February 1996) was a British actress. She played the role of Miss Hardacre in Mind Your Language. She also appeared in The House Under the Water, The House of Windsor, and several other films and TV series.

Courtenay was born in Cardiff and won the Laurence Olivier Award for Supporting Artist of the Year in 1976. She was married to Ivan Pinfield, with whom she had a son, from 1947 to 1968.