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Mavis Wilton (née Riley) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street played by Thelma Barlow. A long-running series regular Mavis appeared in the show for 26 years from 1971 to 1997. Introduced for a one-off cameo appearance she proved popular with producers and viewers and subsequently became a regular.Mavis was portrayed as moralising repressed and dithering and often appeared in comic scenes with her boss Rita Sullivan or her husband Derek Wilton.