Quintin Charles Devenish Lawson was born on 17 September 1959 and is an actor from Northern Ireland.
21 Facts About Charles Lawson
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Charles Lawson is best known for playing Jim McDonald on the long running ITV soap opera Coronation Street.
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Charlie Lawson was born in September 1959 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, the son of Quintin Lawson, a businessman from County Tyrone, and his wife, Muriel, from County Fermanagh.
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Charles Lawson moved to Enniskillen around 1948 to work at the then new Taylor-Woods factory, where he was promoted into management.
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Charlie then trained as an actor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where a classmate and good friend of his was fellow Enniskillen native Adrian Dunbar, who Charles Lawson has said was the first Catholic he had ever met.
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Charles Lawson has appeared in three films and in at least twenty television productions.
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Charles Lawson was Jim McDonald in the ITV television soap opera Coronation Street.
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Charles Lawson first appeared as Jim in 1989 and remained a regular character for the next 11 years, with sporadic appearances since then.
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Charles Lawson played Trigg in the 1989 television film The Firm.
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In 2000, Charles Lawson made a programme for ITV Granada, Passion for Peace, which followed him back to Northern Ireland and reported on the creation of the Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Peace Centre in Warrington.
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In 2005, Charles Lawson appeared in the TV documentary Titanic: Birth of a Legend.
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In 2009, Charles Lawson appeared alongside an eight-foot Frankfurter sausage in a German television commercial, advertising hot dogs.
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In 2010, Charles Lawson revealed that he would be returning to Coronation Street for its fiftieth anniversary celebrations.
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Charles Lawson then returned for a three-month stint on the soap between August and November 2014.
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In 2015, Charles Lawson made a guest appearance in an episode of the Comedy Central sitcom Brotherhood as the father of the three main characters.
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Charles Lawson appeared as Doctor Black in the 2016 BBC drama My Mother and Other Strangers.
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Charles Lawson returned to Coronation Street in September 2018 with his supposed deceased daughter from his relationship with Liz.
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Charles Lawson has been married three times, and has a daughter, Laura, from his first marriage to Suzie, which ended in divorce in 1994.
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On 8 October 2018, while portraying Inspector John Rebus in the play Rebus: Long Shadows in Edinburgh, Charles Lawson suffered a minor stroke on stage, but recovered shortly afterwards.
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Charles Lawson said, "I feel lucky to be alive, I was so scared I couldn't stop crying".
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Charles Lawson was replaced in the role by Ron Donachie.