Sally Lindsay
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| Sally Lindsay | |
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| Born | 8 July 1973 Stockport, England |
| Years active | 1999-Present |
| Partner | Steve White |
| Children | Victor and Louis (twins born in London, October 2010) |
Sally Lindsay (born 8 July 1973, Stockport, England) is an English actress best known for playing the role of Shelley Unwin in the long-running ITV Soap opera Coronation Street. She is also known for currently playing the role of Lisa in the Sky1 comedy Mount Pleasant.
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[edit] History
[edit] Early life
Lindsay's first television appearance was aged 7 when her school choir, the St Winifred's School Choir, released "There's No One Quite Like Grandma", which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart in 1980.[1]
Before becoming an actress, Lindsay studied English at the University of Hull and had aspirations of becoming a journalist. However, she was cast in a play and enjoyed the experience, and then studied at North Cheshire Theatre School before dabbling with stand up comedy. When she was 24, she met and became friends with comedian Peter Kay. Subsequently, Lindsay and Kay appeared together in Phoenix Nights and in the video for the Comic Relief single "Is This the Way to Amarillo". In 2000, she appeared in an episode of The Royle Family, playing Twiggy's girlfriend, Michelle.
[edit] Coronation Street
After winning the "Best Actress" category in the Inside Soaps 2005 Awards, Lindsay implied in a radio interview on Mark Radcliffe's BBC Radio 2 show, where she was a regular guest, that she would be leaving the soap at the end of her contract (before the end of the year) to pursue some comedy projects. Lindsay subsequently announced that she would leave the role in 2006 after playing Shelley for five years. She returned for several episodes in late September/early October 2006.
[edit] Post Corrie
Since leaving Coronation Street Lindsay has concentrated on work in the theatre. In 2006, she played Marilyn Monroe in the musical Ella, meet Marilyn by Bonnie Greer opposite Rain Pryor at the Pleasance Ace Dome in Edinburgh, and appeared in The Ho-Ho Club at the King's Head Theatre, Islington, London.
In Summer 2007, she played Beatrice in an open air run of Much Ado About Nothing at Stafford Castle. Lindsay also appears as a regular guest and contributor to the Radcliffe and Maconie Show on BBC Radio 2 and she launched a DVD Sally Lindsay's Party Pub Quiz(2008), shot a role in a comedy pilot Till I die for the ITV network, starred in a radio comedy for Radio 4 Pick-Ups with John Thomson and appears in the 2nd series of sketch show Scallywagga on BBC Three.
Lindsay voiced the character of Piella Bakewell in the 2008 Wallace and Gromit film A Matter of Loaf and Death for the BBC after being personally hand-picked for the role by Nick Park.
She played Helen in Shelagh Delaney's acclaimed drama A Taste of Honey in November and December 2008 at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, and returned to the Royal Exchange in July 2009, playing Linda in the world premiere of Niel Bartlets 'Everybody loves a Winner' for the Manchester International Festival.
On New Year's Eve December 2008 Sally won the BBC's Celebrity Mastermind with the specialist subject of Carry On Films. She scored 18 points in the first round and ended with a total score of 27 points following the general knowledge section. The other contestants were Mel Smith, Mick Hucknall and Summer Strallen.
She has toured with Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues", which ended in Nov 2009.
She is appearing as the recurring character tea lady in Reggie Perrin.
As of September 2011, she became a permanent panellist on Loose Women, as was previously confirmed by Denise Welch on July 22, 2011 during an interview on Alan Carr: Chatty Man.
[edit] References
- ^ Jamieson, Alastair (22 November 2009). "St Winifred's choir reunites for charity version of 'There's No-one Quite Like Grandma'". The Daily Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/6622821/St-Winifreds-choir-reunites-for-charity-version-of-Theres-No-one-Quite-Like-Grandma.html. Retrieved 24 November 2009.
