Jennifer Moss (actress)
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Jennifer Victoria Moss (10 January 1945 – 29 September 2006) was an English actress and singer from
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. She was best known for her role as
Lucille Hewitt Lucille Hewitt is a fictional character from the British soap opera '' Coronation Street'', played by Jennifer Moss. Created by Tony Warren as one of ''Coronation Street's'' original characters, at eleven years old Lucille was the show's only chi ...
on the long-running soap opera, ''
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'', which she played from 1960 to 1974.


Early career

Moss first achieved fame as a twelve-year-old as one of the child actors on the
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's light entertainment programme ''
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''. It was there that she first came to the attention of actor
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, who would later create ''
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''. Moss moved into television in the early 1960s, and appeared in ''June Evening'' and ''Magnolia Street'' for
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. At the age of 15, she joined ''
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'' in episode four as the programme's first wildchild Lucille Hewitt, a role she played until she left in 1974 after 14 years and 756 episodes.


Music career/discography

In 1961, during the
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strike, Moss used her freedom away from the ''Street'' to concentrate on other projects. She appeared in a West End musical, and made her debut on the big screen when she co-starred with
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,
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, John Pike and
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in the beat film '' Live It Up!'' (1963), singing "Please Let It Happen To Me". Her debut single, "Hobbies", produced by
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, failed to make the UK charts, and her music career fizzled out. She recorded a number of other songs, which remained unreleased until 1996, when a CD compilation, ''Let's Go With Joe Meek's Girls'', was released. The complete list of songs that Moss recorded with Meek is as follows: *"Hobbies" / "Big Boys" - ( Columbia DB 7063, June 1963) *"Please Don't Say Goodbye" *"Please Let It Happen To Me" (from '' Live It Up!'') *"When My Boy Comes Marching Home" After the
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strike, Moss returned to ''
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'', where she would remain as Lucille until July 1974.


Later career

After spending much of the 1970s and the early 1980s in relative obscurity, Moss finally beat her demons and slipped back into acting. She was heard on the
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radio soap opera ''The Merseysiders'', and seen as an extra on
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's ''
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''. In 1986 she played
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's mother in the
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comedy series ''Help!'', and in 1989, appeared as a waitress in the ''
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'' Christmas special. Jennifer returned to guest on television shows in the late 1990s, appearing on
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's episode of ''This Is Your Life'', ''
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'' and ''Sky Soaps''. In 1997, she acted opposite
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in the ''Woman of the Year'' episode of ''
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'' as a nosy neighbour. In 2000, Moss appeared on the programme ''After They Were Famous'', and a year later was interviewed on ''Life After the Street''.


Personal life

In the 1980s, Moss successfully battled
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, which was the reason underlying her being sacked from ''Coronation Street'' for bad behaviour by then-producer Susi Hush in 1974. Moss stated that she drank to numb the pain she felt after the death of her father, Reg. In an interview with the ''Evening Times'' in 1979, Moss, then living in a three-apartment house in Wigan, found for her by the local Social Works Department when she was homeless, Moss said: "My youngest daughter, Sarah, is only three years old and is mentally handicapped... while I was pregnant I was drinking all the time. I will go to my grave with this damage to my child on my conscience." Her eldest daughter, Naomi (like Sarah) was taken into care, and her baby boy had died when he was three days old, in 1976. In August 1980, it was reported that Moss and her then fourth husband had broken into a local Labour club in a search for drink. She left court and was put on probation for two years. Moss joined
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and decided to settle in Liverpool in 1982, on the basis that the city had 28
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meetings weekly. She lived in a house owned by the Merseyside Housing Improvement Trust and began to sort her life out. Before reviving her acting career, she took on various jobs as a waitress and a taxi driver, but there were also court appearances for
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and
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, a charge of which she was cleared. She was married five times. She wed her first husband, the son of a millionaire in 1968, but they divorced the following year, after Jennifer gave birth to their daughter. She then married a
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motor dealer, Adrian Glick, who was violent towards her. Her third marriage was to a man ten years her junior and an alcoholic, while her fourth marriage, to a
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worker eighteen years younger than her, also dissolved quickly. In 1989, Moss wed her fifth husband, computer software expert and
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graduate Stephen Ramsden, and was happily married to him until her death. Towards the end of her life, she reconciled with her daughter Naomi, who later married and made Moss a grandmother. She was also often reunited with former and current ''
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'' stars when she attended launches and anniversary parties. She and Ramsden ran an Internet stamp collecting business. According to the ''
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'', Moss had been in failing health for some time, but made a spiritual pilgrimage to
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in her last year, where she finally came to terms with her father's death.


Death

Moss died in September 2006 at her home in
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,
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, Scotland. Her wishes were to be buried next to her father, Reg, whose gravestone already bore her name before she died. She had been estranged from her mother, Dora.


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External links

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