Alan Halsall

Alan has played the role of Tyrone Dobbs in Coronation Street since 1998, one of the street’s best loved characters.

Amy Nuttall

Amy is a British actress and singer most notable for playing the role of Chloe Atkinson in the long-running ITV soap opera Emmerdale from 2000 to 2005.

Andrew Paul

Andrew was an actor in adolescence, turning professional at the age of 14 when he enrolled at a stage school.

Andrew Whyment

Andy is best known for his comedy character Kirk Sutherland in Coronation Street, first appearing on our screens in October 2000.

Betty Driver MBE

Betty Driver was born in Leicester on 20 March 1920.

Beverly Callard

Beverly Callard is best known for her long standing role as Liz McDonald in Coronation Street.

Bill Tarmey

Bill Tarmey is best known for his much loved role as Jack Duckworth on Coronation Street.

Bill Ward

Newcastle born Bill is best known for his role as Charlie Stubbs in Coronation Street.

Bobby Knutt

Bobby Knutt is a very experienced and fantastic comedian from Yorkshire who is also a famous British actor.

Bradley Walsh

After being named Top TV Personality of the Year by the Comic Heritage Awards, Bradley has been on national television non-stop.

Brian Capron

Brian’s most notable roles are playing the character Mr Hopwood in the BBC children’s Grange Hill series, Murray in the comedy series Full House and more recently Richard Hillman, the first serial murderer in Coronation Street, making him one of the most notorious villains in TV history.

Bruce Jones

Bruce Jones is best known for his role as Les Battersby in Coronation Street.

Charlie Lawson

Charles Devenish Lawson is probably most famous for playing Jim McDonald in Coronation Street.

Chris Bisson

Chris is probably best known for his role as Vikram Desai in television soap favourite Coronation Street.

Chris Ellison

Most people will know Chris from his portrayal of the iconic ‘DI FRANK BURNSIDE’ in the ITV series ‘THE BILL’, but Chris’s career spans almost 40 years in the world of TV and Theatre.

Chris Walker

From becoming a professional actor at the age of 19, Chris has become a house hold name.

Daniel McPherson

Daniel made his acting debut playing the part of Joel in Neighbours in 1995 and earned himself a LOGIE Award for Most Popular New Male Talent and also received a Silver LOGIE nomination for Most Popular Actor.

Danny Dyer

Danny was born in Canning Town, East London on 24th July 1977.

Danny Young

Up and coming television actor Danny first appeared on our screens in 2002 in Out of Control but it wasn’t until he landed the part of Warren Baldwin in Coronation Street in 2004 that he could say he’d made it.

David Barry

David Barry came to televisual fame in the 1970s, when he starred as Frankie Abbott, the mummy’s boy who thinks he’s a hardcase, in the sitcoms ’Please, Sir!’ and ’The Fenn Street Gang’.

David Neilson

David is likely to be best known for playing long running character Roy Cropper in Coronation Street.

David Schneider

David Schneider was making audiences laugh as early as his college days at Oxford in the early 1980s, when his physical comedy act was a refreshing contrast to the stand-up boom at the time.

Dean Ashton

Dean played young bad boy Aidan Critchley in Coronation Street from 2002 until 2003, spending much of this time tormenting fellow resident Ken Barlow.

Debra Stephenson

Debra Stephenson is much loved British actress is well known for her roles in Coronation Street and ITV᾿s Bad Girls.

Denise Welch

Denise is a well loved television actress and presenter, with possibly her most famous role being Rovers Return landlady Natalie Barnes in Coronation Street, a role she played from 1997.

Dougie Brown

Granada Television’s highly successful series The Comedians established Dougie Brown as a national entertainment figure.

Duncan Preston

Duncan is an extremely versatile actor, having performed on the stage, on the small screen and on the big screen, and this ensures he has a particularly insightful and interesting perception of the entertainment industry.

Emma Kennedy

Emma’s acting career started at a very young age and she has maintained her focus on performing, whether it be sketch comedy, television, on stage, radio, presenting, films or writing.

Ewan McGregor

Ewan Gordon McGregor has appeared in such huge films as Moulin Rouge, Star Wars and Trainspotting and is considered one of the world’s top actors.

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Hale and Pace

After regular exposure in BBC1’s The Entertainers (from April 1984), C4’s Pushing Up Daisies, its successor Coming Next and LWT’s (London Weekend Television) Saturday Gang Hale and Pace were granted their own special by LWT for Christmas 1986.

Helen Worth

Helen has played Gail Platt in Coronation Street since 1974.

Ian Lavender

Ian Lavender is a film and television actor best known for his role as Private Frank Pike in the BBC comedy series Dad’s Army.

Ian McShane

RADA trained Ian’s career began in the theatre, but his first film role came in 1962 when he starred in The Wild and The Willing, which also featured John Hurt and Johnny Briggs (Mike Baldwin in Coronation Street).

Jack Ellis

Jack is best known as bent prison warder, Jim Fenner, in Bad Girls, as well as playing various hard nuts for TV, Jack’s also an accomplished Shakespearean actor and has performed with the RSC.

Jack P Shepherd

Jack replaced Thomas Ormson as David Platt on Coronation Street on the 26th April 2000 having only begun his acting career the previous year.

James Buckley

James is an English actor, best known for his roles as Jay Cartwright in the British comedy The Inbetweeners and the teenage Derek "Del Boy" Trotter in the Only Fools and Horses prequel, Rock & Chips.

James Nesbitt

Actor James Nesbitt didn’t plan on becoming an actor until a teacher suggested he join the theater, since then, he has gone on to appear in many international feature films set in Ireland, but he is mostly known as Adam Williams on Cold Feet.

Jane Danson

Jane Danson is most well known for her character Leanne Batersby in Coronation Street which she has played since 1997.

Jane Rossington

Jane Rossington is a British actress, best known for her role as Jill Richardson in the soap opera Crossroads.

Jasper Carrott OBE

Jasper Carrott was born in Birmingham in 1945 where he made his first showbiz appearance as resident singer at the Boggery Folk Club in Solihull from there he discovered his talent for comedy, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Jennie McAlpine

Jennie plays Fiona “Fizz” Brown and has been a member of Coronation Street since 2001.

Jimmi Harkishin

Jimmi Harkishin is best known for the role of Dev in Coronation Street, and has been an on and off character since he joined the cast.

Jimmy Tarbuck OBE

The son of a bookmaker, Jimmy was born in Liverpool in 1940.

John Nettles

John Nettles studied philosophy and history at Southampton University where he also acted in drama society productions.

John Savident

Before becoming an actor in the early 1960s, John used to be a policeman in Manchester.

Johnny Ball

Johnny is a popularizer of science and mathematics, writing and presenting 23 Solo Television series, with ’Think of a Number’, ’Think Again’, etc (BBC), and ’Johnny Ball Reveals All’ (ITV).

Johnny Briggs MBE

At the age of 12, Johnny won a scholarship to the Italia Conti Stage Academy and this gave him a fantastic start to an equally fantastic career.

Jonathan Wrather

Jonathon Wrather first appeared on TV in an episode of Cracker in 1993 and he hasn’t been off our screens since.

Julia Haworth

Julia is an English actress best known as Claire Peacock on ITV1’s Coronation Street, a role she has played since 2003.

Julie Hesmondhalgh

Julie was an amateur actress with the Oswaldtwistle Players and studied A-level Theatre Studies at Accrington and Rossendale College.

Kate Ford

Kate is best known for playing the role of Tracy Barlow in the long-running ITV1 soap opera Coronation Street from 2002 to 2007.

Kathryn Hunt

Kathryn is well known for her role in Where The Heart Is, where she played Cheryl Lampard from 1998 until 2000, and has starred in many more television series.

Keith Duffy

Keith Duffy was born in Dublin and became famous by being in the boy band Boyzone who had huge hits in the UK and Ireland.

Ken Morley

Ken Morley has had a successful acting career with well known television roles, including his role as Reg Holdsworth in Coronation Street from 1989 to 1995.

Kevin Kennedy

Kevin played Curly Watts in Coronation Street from 11th July 1983.

Kevin Whately

Kevin Whately is a successful British actor, well known for his role in cult series Auf Wiedersehen and as Detective Sergeant Lewis in Inspector Morse.

Kim Medcalf

Kim originally hails from Bromley, Kent and broke into British television in 2002, replacing Daniella Westbrook as Sam Mitchell in EastEnders.

Lenny Henry CBE

Lenny Henry is the founding member of Comic Relief and an award winning comedian.

Liza Tarbuck

Liza Tarbuck is firmly established as one of the country’s best known faces, having trained at RADA and she was recently invited to join the UK’s most popular comedy duo, French & Saunders, in their latest BBC 1 series playing their Producer.

Lucy-Jo Hudson

Lucy-Jo played Katy Harris in Coronation Street since 2002.

Maggie Jones

Maggie has had a long and very successful career in television, spanning over 4 decades.

Malcolm Hebden

Malcolm has played Norris Cole in Coronation Street in 1997 then from 1999 till present.

Mark Wingett

Mark Wingett was born in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.

Meera Syal MBE

Writer and actress Meera Syal was educated at Manchester University where she read English and Drama.

Michael Le Vell

Michael initially played Neil Grimshaw in Coronation Street in 1981 then Kevin Webster from 1983 till present.

Nick Cochrane

Manchester born Nick played Andy McDonald in Coronation Street from 6th December 1989 - 12th November 1997 and the 26th November - 3rd December 2000.

Nick Pickard

He is best recognised for his British Soap award nominated role as Tony Hutchinson in the British TV drama Hollyoaks.

Nikki Sanderson

Nikki’s TV career was launched when she then attended a theatre work shop near her home in Blackpool.

Nina Wadia

Bombay-born Nina appeared alongside Meera Syal in the hit comedy Goodness Gracious Me and played the field with Keira Knightley in the hit Brit-flick Bend It Like Beckham.

Oliver Skeete

Oliver Skeete was born in Barbados, although when he was just 8, he moved to West London.

Paul Whitehouse

The route Paul Whitehouse took to success wasn’t the most obvious.

Pauline Flemming

Pauline has been in Coronation Street as Penny King since 2003.

Phil Middlemiss

Phil Middlemiss was a popular character, Des Barnes in ITV’s Coronation Street, but his role ended when his character was murdered.

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Richard Blackwood

Richard Blackwood is a singer, stand-up comedian, actor and television presenter.

Richard Fleeshman

Richard bounced onto our screens in 2002 when he landed a part in Coronation Street as Craig Harris, youngest son of the Harris family on the street.

Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais has risen to the top of British comedy, for his innovative performances in his own productions of the Office and recently, Extras.

Robert Duncan McNeill

Robert studied at the prestigious Julliard School of Acting.

Robert Powell

Robert Powell started his acting career in 1964 while attending Manchester University and has recently taken up the role of Mark Williams in BBC drama Holby City.

Robert Webb

Robert Webb is a comedian, actor and writer, and one half of Mitchell and Webb, alongside David Mitchell.

Robson Green

Green first made his name as an actor in the BBC series Casualty, but after three series moved to national prominence as Fusilier Dave Tucker in the drama series Soldier Soldier.

Ronnie Corbett

Ronnie Corbett began his successful show business career in the early 1950s.

Rupert Hill

Rupert is best known for playing Jamie Baldwin on Coronation Street and became a very popular character in the soap.

Ryan Thomas

Ryan was born in Manchester and has played Jason Grimshaw in Coronation Street since 2000.

Sally Lindsay

Sally is possibly best known for playing Shelley Unwin in Coronation Street.

Sally Whitaker

Sally was born in May 1963 in Lancashire.

Samia Ghadie

Samia’s big break came when she was 11 with a part in the TV series ’Cracker’, when she appeared as Fitz’s daughter’s best friend Rosie.

Sasha Behar

Sasha Behar played Maya Sharma in Coronation Street from 2003-3004.

Scott Wright

Scott played Sam Kingston on Coronation Street from 2000 - 2002.

Sean Blowers

Sean Blowers is perhaps best known as John Hallam from London’s Burning, a role which he played for 8 years, from 1988 until 1996.

Sean Connery

Sean began his theatrical career as an extra in the chorus, playing bit parts, and modeling.

Shane Richie

Shane Richie is an English actor, comedian, singer and television presenter.

Shaun Williamson

Shaun successfully completed a three-year acting diploma at Europe’s premier Drama School The Webber Douglas Academy in Kensington.

Shobna Gulati

Shobna plays Sunita Parekh in Coronation Street, she made her first appearance in 2001.

Simon Gregson

In 1989, at the age of 14, Simon auditioned at school for a part and was accepted as Steve McDonald in Coronation Street.

Steven Arnold

Steven Arnold was born in Warrington in 1975.

Steven Pinder

Steven is perhaps still best remembered for his role of villainous Max Farnham in Channel 4’s Brookside, a role that he played for almost 13 years and through which he became a household name.

Sue Cleaver

Sue Cleaver trained at Manchester Polytechnic School of Theatre.

Suranne Jones

Suranne played Karen Phillips in Coronation Street from 2000-2004.

Susie Amy

Susie has also played the lead role in the Hallmark series La Famme Musketeer and has worked alongside Dennis Hopper and Andy Garcia in the films House of Nine and Modigliani.

Ted Robbins

Liverpool-born Ted took a degree in English and Drama from Liverpool University and immediately went to Butlins as a redcoat! A career in theatre and television has seen him play many parts as well as starring with his sister Kate in Kate and Ted’s Show and presenting quiz and gameshows such as Quiz Night, Bratpack, and Chainletters.

Thomas Craig

Thomas was born in Sheffield and played Tommy Harris in Coronation Street from 2002.

Tim Healy

Tim Healy found fame as Dennis, the gaffer of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet’s ’magnificent seven’ back in the 1980s.

Tina O'Brien

Tina was born on the 7th August 1983.

Tom Owen

Who better to tell the story of Bill Owen, iconic Last of the Summer Wine actor, than his own son, Tom Owen, an actor for forty years having followed his father’s footsteps into show business and indeed into ’Last of the Summer Wine’ itself, making television history in the process.

Trevor Bannister

Trevor is best known for playing Mr Lucas in the situation comedy Are You Being Served? from 1972 to 1979.

Trevor Dwyer-Lynch

Trevor is an actor, presenter and compÞre.

Tupele Dorgu

Tupele made her Coronation Street debut as Kelly Crabtree in 2004, a role she plays to this date with increasing popularity.

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Vince Earl

Vince Earl is one of the original Merseyside Rockers, he and his band, The Talismen were very much part of the sixties’ scene, performing at virtually every major venue in the UK.

Wendi Peters

Born in Blackburn, Lancashire, Wendi is well known as one of the stars on Coronation Street, playing Cilla Brown.

William Roache MBE

William Roache MBE has played national treasure Ken Barlow for a world record breaking 51 years in the world renowned soap opera, Coronation Street.

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