Sally Lindsay

Sally Lindsay (born 21st May 1972 in Stockport, Cheshire) is a British actress best known for playing the role of Shelly Unwin in the long-running ITV1 Soap opera "Coronation Street".

History

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", the British Christmas number one single of 1980. The song knocked John Lennon off the top spot. In the aftermath of Lennon's death, his songs were re-released, these included 'Imagine', which knocked St Winifred's off the top spot.

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". She also appeared with him in the video for the Comic Relief single, "Is This the Way to Amarillo".

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 and is known to be keen to do more Coronation Street episodes at a later date.

Post Corrie

Since leaving Coronation Street Lindsay has concentrated on work in the theatre. In 2006, she played Marilyn Monroe in the play "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, Lindsay played Beatrice in an acclaimed open air run of Much Ado About Nothing at the Stafford Castle. For a period, Lindsay also appeared as a regular guest and contributor to the Radcliffe and Maconie Show on BBC Radio 2 and she has recently launched a DVD "Sally Lindsay's party pub quiz", 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 Sketch show Scallywagga on BBC Three.

Lindsay will voice the character of "Piella Bakewell" in a new one-off episode of "Wallace and Gromit" - "A Matter of Loaf and Death" for the BBC after being personally handpicked for the role by Nick Park.

Personal life

In 2003, she bought the cottage she had dreamed of living in when she was a child, where her parents Barbara and Tony had run the nightclub next door. Lindsay commutes between the North West and London, where her boyfriend Steve White, Paul Weller's drummer, is based. Lindsay is a supporter of Manchester City Football Club and a big fan of Bon Jovi.

External links

*imdb|name=Sally Lindsay|id=0962559
* [http://www.biogs.com/corrie/lindsay.html Fan site]
* [http://www.british-publishing.com/Pages/Stockport/made.html Famous people from Stockport]