Sharon Maughan became internationally recognised in the 1980s from the Gold Blend couple television advertisements for Nescafe instant coffee, alongside actor Anthony Head.
14 Facts About Sharon Maughan
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Sharon Maughan's credits include She's Out of My League, MacGyver, Inspector Morse, Hannay, Murder, She Wrote.
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Sharon Maughan made it to the semi-final of Celebrity MasterChef in 2011.
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Sharon Maughan was born in Liverpool, to a working class family, and raised in Kirkby, Lancashire, with her four siblings.
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Sharon Maughan got her first taste of acting in plays at the all-girl Catholic Comprehensive School, St Gregory's School in Southdene, Kirkby.
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In 1973, Sharon Maughan was chosen for the role of Rachel Rosing in a Granada Television serialisation of Howard Spring's novel, Shabby Tiger.
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Sharon Maughan next worked with John Stride in the final series of Yorkshire Television's The Main Chance, playing the Nordic Inge Lindstrom.
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In 1977, Sharon Maughan joined the cast of Franco Zeffirelli's Filumena, starring Joan Plowright and Colin Blakely in London's West End, where she met her future husband, actor Trevor Eve.
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Sharon Maughan then went on to star in such series as The Enigma Files, The Flame Trees of Thika, Dombey and Son, and By the Sword Divided.
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In 1986, as a result of the success of The Flame Trees of Thika in America, Sharon Maughan was invited to do an episode of MacGyver.
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Sharon Maughan played Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Anna Howard Shaw in Paula Wagner's production of Out of Our Father's House at Hollywood's Fountainhead Theatre.
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In September 2014, Sharon Maughan starred in the British premiere of Neil LaBute's well received play Autobahn at the King's Head Theatre in Islington.
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Sharon Maughan later appeared in the film Untitled playing the drug dealing mastermind controller of a struggling filmmaker.
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In 1982, Sharon Maughan gave birth to their first child, Alice, now an actor.