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  1. Nov 19, 2013 · Sarah Lancashire says her latest role has had a much bigger impact than Corrie's Raquel. The actress says her role as a lesbian teacher in Last Tango In Halifax has led to heart-warming...

  2. Sep 6, 2023 · Coronation Street. Sarah Lancashire began her career in Coronation Street playing Raquel Watts. During her time in the soap Raquel became known for being the happy-go-lucky barmaid who fell...

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  4. May 11, 2024 · Updated 18:20, 11 May 2024. |. Bookmark. Sarah Lancashire has enjoyed a decades-long career as an actor and it's been suggested recently that she may instead work behind the camera more moving...

  5. May 20, 2017 · As Corrie’s Raquel Watts, Sarah Lancashire would never have believed the Valley best years of her ­career would start in her late forties. But the actress who became a household name on...

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    • Happy Valley

    Wearing huge earrings and poofy 90s hair, Lancashire looks unrecognisable and worlds apart from her Happy Valley character Sgt Cawood. She played Raquel Watts – a ditzy but loveable barmaid at The Rovers Return. One long-time fan of the actress even stated in the comments that she felt ‘sorry’ for people who had not seen Lancashire as the iconic 90...

    Lancashire also had a cameo in raunchy E4 teen drama Skins alongside Joe Dempsie and Nicholas Hoult. During a 2007 episode, Chris, played by Dempsie, discovers that he has been left by his mum, who gives him £1,000 to survive on. Chris uses the money to throw the party to end all parties. Lancashire plays well-meaning Mary, who inadvertently asks C...

    A year later, she appeared in beloved sci-fi series Doctor Who as the terrifying Miss Foster in the fourth series of the revived show. Despite starring in a single episode, Lancashire made a whole generation of children hide behind the sofa as she faced David Tennant’s Doctor alongside Catherine Tate. The episode featured aliens the Adipose, which ...

    Since then, the now-58-year-old has gone on to appear in period drama such as Lark Rise to Candleford and Wuthering Heights. She is perhaps best known though for herBAFTA award winning role as browbeaten Sgt Catherine Cawood in Happy Valley. Set in West Yorkshire, the taut BBC crime drama follows the detective as she hunts down Tommy Lee Royce – th...

  6. Jul 13, 2019 · Her big TV break came as Raquel Wolstenhul­me in Corrie, a colleague of popular character Curly Watts. Sarah’s initial contract on the show was for three months, after which she returned to teaching for a year.

  7. Apr 4, 2023 · Happy Valley ’s creator Sally Wainwright has said Sarah Lancashire is to ‘thank’ for the drama’s juggernaut ending that more than 7.5 million viewers tuned in to watch. After battling over...