Lesley Sharp's adoptive father, Jack, was a tax inspector, and she grew up in Merseyside.
15 Facts About Lesley Sharp
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Lesley Sharp has stated that she started acting because, as a child, she felt "invisible" and did not "quite fit in".
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Lesley Sharp attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in the class of 1982.
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Lesley Sharp starred in Mike Leigh's Naked, and the Jimmy McGovern-penned Priest.
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Lesley Sharp made appearances in Prime Suspect 4: The Lost Child, and The Full Monty.
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Lesley Sharp was offered lead roles in Common As Muck, followed by Playing the Field, a drama about a female football team which ran for five series.
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Lesley Sharp again worked with Mike Leigh in Vera Drake, which was followed by the television drama Planespotting, The same year, she played the clairvoyant lead role of Alison Mundy opposite Andrew Lincoln's sceptical Robert Bridge in ITV's supernatural drama series Afterlife.
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Davies later tipped Lesley Sharp to become the first woman to play the Doctor.
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In early 2009 Lesley Sharp played Petronella van Daan in the BBC's new version of The Diary of Anne Frank.
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Lesley Sharp subsequently played Paddy Considine's wife in Channel 4's acclaimed drama series Red Riding.
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Lesley Sharp starred in a 2009 revival of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice at the Vaudeville Theatre with Marc Warren and Diana Vickers, which ran from October to the following January.
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In 2015, Lesley Sharp played the part of Mary, the daughter of Petunia Howe, in the three-part BBC series Capital based on John Lanchester's novel of the same name.
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Lesley Sharp appeared in several episodes of the Netflix original Fate: The Winx Saga as Rosalind but was replaced in this role with Miranda Richardson after the first season.
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Lesley Sharp married Nicholas Gleaves in 1994, and they have two children.
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In October 2005, Lesley Sharp starred in her first theatre role for a decade in the play The God of Hell at the Donmar Warehouse, London.