Alex Hall (actress)

Hall has been at BBC Radio Tees since 2006. She first hosted a mid-morning show from 10am until 1pm. By September 2008 her mid-morning phone-in show was replaced by a show presented by Diane Youdale of Gladiators fame, and her co-host Neil Green. In 2009 Hall hosted a weekly show on Sunday's between 5pm and 7pm titled Songs from the Shows. Songs from the Shows has been simulcast on BBC Radio Newcastle from the 6 January 2013. As of 2022 she is still presenting Songs from the Shows every Sunday at 8pm.

Since Emmerdale, TV roles have included Wendy Frost in Bodies with Max Beesley and Keith Allen, along with playing Brenda, the dizzy Little Chef waitress in Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere. Hall has also appeared in the BBC One children's drama Clay and a 2010 episode of Waterloo Road.

In April 2000, she crossed over to BBC Radio York, then to BBC Radio Leeds by 2003, hosting The Alex Hall Late Show on the BBC Night Network every weeknight between 10pm and 1am, from January 2002 until May 2006. She returned to cover Russell Walker on the Late Night Show in July 2015 for a few weeks.

She appeared in ITV's Emmerdale as Jean Strickland, the headteacher of Hotten Comprehensive, sporadically between 1999 and 2001. Her character was killed-off in a hit and run involving a number of her students. Hall had previously appeared in many well-known TV shows including Coronation Street, Prime Suspect, Spender, Byker Grove and Harry.

Hall started out on the late-night phone-in on TFM in Thornaby-on-Tees. In 1990, she joined the original line up of Magic 828 where she presented the late show.

Alex Hall (born Patricia Anne Thompson now Fisher, 17 July 1949 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire) is a British actress and radio presenter.