From saucy stage role to TV's toughest female cop... Sarah Lancashire's long ... trends now

From saucy stage role to TV's toughest female cop... Sarah Lancashire's long ... trends now
From saucy stage role to TV's toughest female cop... Sarah Lancashire's long ... trends now

From saucy stage role to TV's toughest female cop... Sarah Lancashire's long ... trends now

From saucy stage role to TV's toughest female cop... Sarah Lancashire's long journey to Happy Valley

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As Sergeant Catherine Cawood, she has millions of viewers on tenterhooks ahead of this Sunday’s Happy Valley finale.

And for Sarah Lancashire, the gritty role in BBC1’s crime drama has marked a change of pace from the characters that made her a household name.

The Oldham-born actress, 58, is perhaps still best known for playing barmaid Raquel in Coronation Street, but has had a varied career since leaving drama school.

Her first major role, as a beauty contestant in swimwear and high heels, was on stage in 1986 in Manchester Library Theatre Company’s The Beauty Game.

Stage role: Sarah Lancashire (centre) in The Beauty Game in 1986

Stage role: Sarah Lancashire (centre) in The Beauty Game in 1986

Road to fame: Lancashire with Bill Tarmey as Jack Duckworth in Coronation Street in 1986

Road to fame: Lancashire with Bill Tarmey as Jack Duckworth in Coronation Street in 1986

Lancashire in 1991

Lancashire in 1994

Actor: Lancashire with Mark Wingett in The Bill in 1991 and back in the Rovers as Raquel in 1994

She then had a fleeting appearance in Coronation Street as Jack Duckworth’s prospective lodger, and also in an episode of

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