Cheryl Murray (born Cheryl Frayling-Wright 13 July 1952 in
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a populat ...
,
Lancashire
Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a historic county, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significantly.
The non-metropolitan county of Lancash ...
) is an English actress, best known for her role as
Suzie Birchall on the soap opera ''
Coronation Street'', which she played from 1977 to 1979 and again in 1983.
Career
Murray played the eldest daughter of
Billie Whitelaw and sister of Smiths fan Lucette Henderson in the video "
Everyday Is Like Sunday
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" by
Morrissey - which was filmed in and around
Southend-on-Sea
Southend-on-Sea (), commonly referred to as Southend (), is a coastal city and unitary authority area with borough status in southeastern Essex, England. It lies on the north side of the Thames Estuary, east of central London. It is bordered ...
and
Westcliff
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. She also appeared in the fourth series of David Croft's ''
Hi-de-Hi!
''Hi-de-Hi!'' is
a BBC television sitcom shown on BBC1 from 1 January 1980 to 30 January 1988.
Set in 1959 and 1960 in Maplins, a fictional holiday camp, the show was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, who also wrote '' Dad's Army'' an ...
'' as Joan Wainwright and as Gillian alongside
Ronnie Corbett
Ronald Balfour Corbett (4 December 1930 – 31 March 2016) was a Scottish actor, broadcaster, comedian and writer. He had a long association with Ronnie Barker in the BBC television comedy sketch show ''The Two Ronnies''. He achieved promine ...
in the 1980s
BBC Television comedy series ''
Sorry!;'' the episode entitled "
Collapse of Small Party".
Murray has been diagnosed with
multiple sclerosis and had her first MS attack while working on ''Coronation Street''.
Murray retired from acting in 1998 due to her diagnosis years earlier.
In 2014 Murray made a guest appearance on the ITV documentary "Gail and Me: 40 years of Gail on Coronation Street".
Filmography
* ''Gail and Me: 40 Years Of Gail On
Coronation Street '' (2014) Herself
* ''When
Pat Phoenix
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Met
Tony Booth'' (2002) Herself
* ''
Emmerdale
''Emmerdale'' (known as ''Emmerdale Farm'' until 1989) is a British soap opera that is broadcast on ITV1. The show is set in Emmerdale (known as Beckindale until 1994), a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, ...
'' (1998) Mrs. Parker.
* ''Rich Deceiver'' (1995) Maria.
* ''
Sorry!'' (1985) Gillian.
* ''
Hi-de-Hi!
''Hi-de-Hi!'' is
a BBC television sitcom shown on BBC1 from 1 January 1980 to 30 January 1988.
Set in 1959 and 1960 in Maplins, a fictional holiday camp, the show was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, who also wrote '' Dad's Army'' an ...
'' (1985) Joan Wainwright.
* ''
Coronation Street'' (1977-1983)
Suzie Birchall.
* ''
Supernatural'' (1977) Arabella.
* ''
Crown Court'' (1974–1975) Bella Janes/Mary Wilkins.
* ''
Zigger Zagger
''Zigger Zagger'' is a 1967 play by Peter Terson which was the first work to be commissioned by the National Youth Theatre who revived it at Wilton's Music Hall in 2017 for its 50th anniversary.[Dixon of Dock Green
''Dixon of Dock Green'' was a BBC police procedural television series about daily life at a fictional London police station, with the emphasis on petty crime, successfully controlled through common sense and human understanding. It ran from 19 ...]
'' (1975) Sheila Springer.
* ''Microbes and Men'' (1974) Hedwig Freiburg.
* ''
Z Cars
''Z-Cars'' or ''Z Cars'' (pronounced "zed cars") is a British television police procedural series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, near Liverpool. Produced by the BBC, it debut ...
'' (1974) Jean Ramsden.
* ''
Within These Walls
''Within These Walls'' is a British television drama programme made by London Weekend Television for ITV and shown between 1974 and 1978. It portrayed life in HMP Stone Park, a fictional women's prison. Unlike later women-in-prison TV series, ...
'' (1974) Julie.
* ''Vienna 1900'' (1973) Elise.
* ''
Billy Liar'' (1973) Pauline.
References
External links
*
English television actresses
English soap opera actresses
Actresses from Liverpool
1952 births
Living people
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