Sally Lindsay

Sally Lindsay, an English actress and television presenter, first became well known as Shelley Unwin in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street, a part she played from 2001 to 2006 and for which she won a Best Actress prize at the Inside Soap 2005 Awards. She then turned to theater, taking roles including Helen in A Taste of Honey at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre. Her screen work includes the voice of Piella Bakewell in the Wallace and Gromit film A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008) and a part in Dial M for Middlesbrough (2019). On television she played Lisa in Mount Pleasant, Alison Bailey in Scott & Bailey, a series she helped conceive, and Kath Agnew in Still Open All Hours. She co-created and produces The Madame Blanc Mysteries, in which she plays Jean White, and was a regular panelist on Loose Women from 2011 to 2014.