Valerie Lilley (born 14 April 1939) is a Northern Irish actress who has played many television roles on dramas such as '' Doctors'' and ''

Grange Hill ''Grange Hill'' is a British children's television drama series, originally produced by the BBC and portraying life in a typical comprehensive school. The show began its run on 8 February 1978 on BBC1, and was one of the longest-running program ...

''. Lilley most recently appeared in

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's '' Casualty'' as Daisy Fennings. Prior to that

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's comedy drama '' Shameless'' portraying Patty Croker (2010–2012). She also appeared briefly in a stretch on the '' Catherine Tate Show'' Lilley trained with Joan Littlewood's Arts Workshop in London during the early sixties and received an early boost, which included appearing alongside

Stephen Rea Stephen Rea ( ; born 31 October 1946) is an Irish film and stage actor. Rea has appeared in films such as '' V for Vendetta'', '' Michael Collins'', ''Interview with the Vampire'' and '' Breakfast on Pluto''. Rea was nominated for the Academy Aw ...

. She spent many years as a stage actress throughout the UK. In 1982, she took a minor role in another local television play, Stewart Parker's ''Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain'', starring

Frances Tomelty Frances Tomelty (born 6 October 1948) is a Northern Irish actress whose numerous television credits include ''Strangers'' (1978–1979), '' Testament of Youth'' (1979), ''Inspector Morse'' (1988), ''Cracker'' (1993), '' The Amazing Mrs Pritchard ...

. Also in 1982, Lilley appeared in two other televised plays, ''Potato Head Blues'' and the troubles rooted ''Billy Boy'' with James Ellis. Lilley was also a regular in ITV's ill-fated ''

Albion Market ''Albion Market'' was a British soap opera, set in a covered market in Salford, in the northwest of England. It was intended as a companion to fellow ITV soap '' Coronation Street'', starting at 7:00 pm on Fridays and 7.15 pm on Sundays. Howe ...

''.Ulster Actors biography
/ref> She was born in Larne in 1939, the daughter of James and Margaret Lilley and lived at Oakdene, Inver, attending St. Mary's Primary School and then St. Dominic's High School in Belfast, before the family relocated to

Ramsbottom Ramsbottom is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England. The population at the 2011 census was 17,872. Historically in Lancashire, it is on the River Irwell in the West Pennine Moors, northwest of Bu ...

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in England.

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* 1939 births Living people English television actresses English film actresses English stage actresses People from Larne 20th-century English actresses 21st-century English actresses {{UK-tv-actor-1930s-stub