Sally Lindsay
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Sally Lindsay (born 1973 in Stockport, Cheshire) is a British actress who is best known for her role in the ITV1 Soap opera Coronation Street as Shelley Unwin.
Her first television appearance was aged 8 when her school choir, the St Winifred's School Choir, released There's No One Quite Like Grandma, the British Christmas number one single of 1980. Ironically, the song knocked John Lennon off the top spot - in the aftermath of Lennon's death, his songs were re-released. These included 'Imagine', which knocked St Winifred's off the top spot.
Before becoming an actress, Lindsay studied English at the University of Hull and had aspirations of becoming a journalist. However, she was cast in a play and enjoyed the experience, and then studied at North Cheshire Theatre School. When she was 24, she met and became friends with comedian Peter Kay.
Subsequently, Lindsay and Kay appeared together in Phoenix Nights and Coronation Street. She also appeared with him in the video for the Comic Relief single, Is This the Way to Amarillo. After winning the "Best Actress" category in the Inside Soaps 2005 awards, Lindsay implied in a radio interview on Mark Radcliffe's BBC Radio 2 show, where she is a regular guest, that she would be leaving the soap at the end of her contract (before the end of the year) to pursue some comedy projects. Lindsay subsequently announced that she would leave the role in 2006 after playing Shelley for five years. She returned for several episodes in late September/early October 2006 and is known to be keen at doing more Coronation Street episodes at a later date.
Lindsay has played a series of comdeic roles, including Phoenix Nights, the role of Twiggy's girlfriend Michelle in the Royle Family, and she has also done a stand-up touring the North West.
In 2003 she bought the cottage she had dreamed of living in when she was a child, where her parents Barbara and Tony had run the nightclub next door. Lindsay commutes between the North West and London, where her boyfriend Steve White, Paul Weller's drummer, is based.
In 2006 she acted as Marilyn Monroe in the theatre.
She is a famous Manchester City fan.
