The TV star was best known for playing the role of Meg Richardson in the long-running soap Crossroads from 1964 to 1981. The actress, who was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 1982, passed away from the disease on April 14, 1985 at the age of 65. What shows did Noele Gordon star in?

Noele Gordon is getting fired. She is given six months in which the story of her death will be written. It comes as quite a shock to Noele, who has been on the show for close to twenty years. Tony suggests that maybe they just want to give her a month-long sabbatical like she has been asking for, but that is far from the case.

Adored by viewers around the world, Noele became known as the 'Queen of soap'. She scooped the TV Times award for most popular television character in 1969, and went on to win the accolade another eight times. Helena Bonham Carter as Crossroads star Noele Gordon. (Image credit: ITV) Is Nolly based on a true story? Yes.

Not only did Noele Gordon not challenge Crossroads producer Jack Barton about pejorative things he’d said to his boss (ATV’s Charles Denton) about her, but most sources also posit she never fully gleaned why she was sacked, nor Barton’s role in her removal. The accepted account has always been “that Denton instigated it,” says The Telegraph (UK).