"NORMAN PRICE!"
- Dilys when Norman causes trouble
Dilys Price is one of the Pontypandy's citizens. She runs the town grocery store. She is the wife of Mr Price, mother of Norman, aunt of Derek, sister of Dylan, aunt-in-law of Phyllis, daughter of Grandpa Price and granddaughter of great-grandma Price.
Biography[]
Dilys is a well-known gossip. She is the mother of town mischief-maker Norman Price, but is frequently blind to her son's troublesome ways. However, dotes on her only child, or "My Sweet" or "My Little Precious" or "Mummy's Little Darling" as she sometimes calls him. But, she sometimes yells at Norman saying "Norman Price!" about what Norman's done. Regardless, she knows when to punish him if he goes to far, as seen when she promised Steele to deal with Norman properly after they discovered that Norman and Derek were responsible for The Great Fire. She often panics when danger occurs such as her shop catching fire.
Appearance[]
In Series 1-4, Dilys wore a green shirt (which became purple in Series 5), a light green flowery apron (which became completely dark green in Series 5), and she wore a pinkish-purple headscarf with Velcro rollers in her hair (which was red at the time). From 2008 onwards, Dilys has fair skin and very dark brown hair, along with blue eyeshadow and pink lips. She no longer wears a headscarf and now wears pink framed glasses. She wears a green button-up shirt with a pink shirt underneath, blue trousers and pink shoes. She also wears earrings, a necklace, and even a bracelet on her left arm.
Voice Actors[]
- John Alderton (Series 1 - 4)
- John Sparkes (Series 5 and Fireman Sam: on Stage)
- Su Douglas (UK; Series 6 onwards)
- Sarah Lynn Strange (US; Amazon Prime)
Trivia[]
- According to Rob Lee, Dilys was based of Hilda Ogden from Coronation Street.[2]
- Dilys' husband is never seen in the series, but he was mentioned by Norman in the episode Brass Band. The whereabouts of him however are unknown.
- In the fifth series, Dilys is the only character female to still be voiced by a male actor after the Classic Series.
- It was stated in The Big Freeze, she is over 40 years of age, but in the CGI Series, she is around 30 years of age.
- Dilys is the Wholefish Cafe's millionth customer.
- She is called Dieuwert(je) Puk in the Dutch dub (Dieuwert being the original name and "je" being the diminutive in the Dutch language).
- Her first name is Dolly in the Norwegian dub.
- Her name is Denise Prime in the French dub.
- The CGI series is the only series where Dilys is voiced by a woman in the English dub.