Angela Lonsdale ( Smith; 13 October 1967) is an English actress.

Biography

Born to a policeman father, Lonsdale trained at Brewery Youth Theatre at the Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal. She took part in a large number of amateur productions, including plays by local playwrights John Newman-Holden and Tim Bull. After initial rejection, Lonsdale then graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Lonsdale is best known for playing police officer Emma Taylor on '' Coronation Street'', later the wife of

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. Both characters left the programme in 2003. She then took a regular part in the long-running television series ''

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''. Lonsdale appeared as DI Eva Moore in the daytime BBC series '' Doctors''. She left in October 2008, after her character was shot and presumed dead. She made a brief return to ''Doctors'' in September 2011. In 2012 and 2013 Lonsdale played the role of the mother in a family of wolves in children's TV drama ''

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''.

Personal life

In 2005 Lonsdale married actor

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, who plays

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Filmography

References

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* Alumni of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland English soap opera actresses English television actresses Living people People from Penrith, Cumbria 1967 births {{UK-tv-actor-1960s-stub