The actress who won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a comedy series for her performance as Mrs. Nell Naugatuck on the 1972 - 1978 U.S. sitcom "Maude" was Hermione Baddeley. The award is an annual honor which is stylishly bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).

Hermione Youlanda Ruby Clinton-Baddeley (November 1906 – August 1986), was an English character actress. She enjoyed playing brash and often vulgar characters. Her character roles have even been referred to as "brassy", "slovenly" or "shabby".

Baddeley was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "Room at the Top" (1959). She got a Tony Award in 1963 for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore". She portrayed 'Ellen the Maid' in the Walt Disney film "Mary Poppins" which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1964. It was in 1975 that she won her Golden Globe Award for playing Nell Naugatuck.

During her life and career, Hermione Baddeley was the wife of nobility and a person loved by George Bernard Shaw. Later, she became Mrs. Nell Naugatuck, the huffy live-in kitchen impresario who made abominable coffee. As Mrs. Naugatuck, she wasn't claiming to be a duchess in distress. She would just boast to Maude Findlay of the bordello she had operated in Australia or tell of the affairs she sometimes had with Winston Churchill. How she did these things made her acting award winning.

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