From starting in folk clubs as a child bride, and then writing & performing at the Octagon theatre in Bolton, the career has always combined singing and acting. From TV programmes and films such as Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Phoenix Nights, Dinnerladies, Alan Bennett films, Brassed Off, My Son The Fanatic & Steve Coogan’s Coogan’s Run, to the many radio plays and programmes presented or guested upon, there has throughout been a steady stream of LPs and CDs -
Soul Music
⭐ 7.1A Day Out
⭐ 4.8The Insurance Man
⭐ 6.2Afternoon Off
⭐ 0Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
⭐ 0My Son the Fanatic
⭐ 5Brassed Off
⭐ 7.02The Parole Officer
⭐ 5.78Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
⭐ 6.6Said the Preacher
⭐ 0Harold Shipman: Doctor Death
⭐ 6.7Rita, Sue and Bob Too
⭐ 6.3A Private Function
⭐ 6.315Sunset Across the Bay
⭐ 6Speech Day
⭐ 0Strumpet
⭐ 5.3⭐ 7.9⭐ 7.654⭐ 7⭐ 7.1⭐ 7.4⭐ 6.4⭐ 7.4⭐ 0⭐ 6.5⭐ 7.6⭐ 7.654⭐ 5⭐ 7