
Acting
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 - eighteen to date, the early ones all now remastered to CD.

Harold Shipman: Doctor Death
as Market Trader

The Parole Officer
as Bike Group Leader

Strumpet
as (Scenes Deleted)

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
as Various Characters

Soul Music
as Asphalt (voice)

My Son the Fanatic
as Drunk Man

Brassed Off
as Chapman

Rita, Sue and Bob Too
as Teacher

The Insurance Man
as Workmen

A Private Function
as Painter

All Creatures Great & Small
as Elijah Wentworth · 1 ep.

Home from Home
as Bill · 1 ep.

Shameless
as Russell · 1 ep.

The Royal
as Albert · 1 ep.

Phoenix Nights
as Dodgy Eric · 12 ep.

Cold Feet
as Cabbie · 1 ep.

dinnerladies
as Bob · 2 ep.

Soul Music
as Asphalt (voice) · 7 ep.

Coogan's Run
1 ep.

Heartbeat
as George Costello · 1 ep.
Rita, Sue and Bob Too
1987