Anne Charleston (born 30 December 1942) is an Australian actress, notable for her career locally and in the United Kingdom in theatre and television. Charleston started her career in theatre in the mid 1950's, and has been a staple of the small screen since the early 1960s, starting with roles in telemovies, before making appearance in the various Crawford Productions series starting from the latter 1960s and 1970s and had several roles in series PrisonerCharleston's best known regulars role's, however, where in the soap opera Neighbours in several stints as matriarch Madge Bishop and in the British soap Emmerdale as Lily Butterfield.