Luan Peters

An English actress and singer, Luan Peters began performing in pantomime as a child and won a drama scholarship at sixteen after Twelfth Night. While studying, she sang in bands, fronting Karol Keyes and the Big Sound and releasing A Fool in Love on Columbia. After leaving that group, she adopted the name Luan Peters and then fronted 5000 Volts after Tina Charles, before training at Joan Littlewood's drama school at the Theatre Royal Stratford East. She became known for 1970s Hammer horror films such as Lust for a Vampire and Twins of Evil (1971), and her other film credits included The Flesh and Blood Show (1972) and Vampira (1974). On television, she played Lorna Shawcross in Coronation Street in 1971, appeared in Doctor Who, and played Raylene Miles in the Fawlty Towers episode The Psychiatrist. Her stage work included Dirty Linen and John, Paul, George, Ringo ... and Bert; her last television role was The Bill in 1990.