28 Facts About Sherrie Hewson

Sherrie Hewson is known for her roles as Maureen Holdsworth in Coronation Street, Virginia Raven in Crossroads, Lesley Meredith in Emmerdale, Joyce Temple-Savage in Benidorm and Martha Blake in Hollyoaks.

Sherrie Hewson has appeared as Doreen Nesbitt and Mary Henshaw in In Loving Memory and as Jean in Barbara on television, and has starred in the films Carry On Behind, The Slipper and the Rose and Hanover Street.

Sherrie Hewson has written three books including a fiction book and a cookery book.

Sherrie Hewson began attending the local dance and dramatics school at the age of three.

Sherrie Hewson then attended Dorothy Grants High School for Girls in Beeston, although after the family had moved to a large manor house in Burton Joyce, Hewson completed her primary education at the village school.

Aged twelve, Sherrie Hewson was enrolled at The Rodney School, a boarding school in nearby Kirklington.

Already a member of the Burton Joyce Players, Sherrie Hewson attended the Midland Academy, studying drama and poetry, before she was granted a scholarship to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where she attended from age 18.

Sherrie Hewson made her screen debut in two episodes of Z-Cars before appearing in The Moonstone and Within These Walls.

Sherrie Hewson had a brief role in the 1979 Alan Bennett drama Afternoon Off as Iris, the ultimately unworthy object of the protagonist Lee's quest.

In 1993, Sherrie Hewson was cast as Maureen Webster in the UK's longest-running soap opera, Coronation Street, a dizzy, accident-prone supermarket assistant dominated by her mother.

Sherrie Hewson was in great demand for light entertainment programmes, and made appearances on Blankety Blank, Noel's House Party and Call My Bluff among others.

In 1999, Sherrie Hewson was cast as Jean in the sitcom Barbara.

In 2001, Sherrie Hewson joined the cast of another soap opera, as receptionist Virginia Raven in the revival of Crossroads.

In 2003, Sherrie Hewson became a regular panellist on Loose Women, an ITV daytime programme.

On 3 August 2016, Sherrie Hewson announced her departure from the show, with her last episode being 5 September 2016.

In 2004, Sherrie Hewson appeared in a celebrity edition of makeover show 10 Years Younger and underwent cosmetic surgery to her face as well as a hair and fashion overhaul.

Sherrie Hewson revealed that her decision to appear was partially influenced by the breakdown of her 20-year marriage to husband Ken Boyd.

In 2004, Sherrie Hewson joined the cast of Emmerdale as Lesley Meredith, mother of fishmonger Simon.

In 2007, Sherrie Hewson made a number of non-acting television appearances.

In 2012, Sherrie Hewson joined the cast of the sitcom Benidorm.

On 18 January 2015, Sherrie Hewson took part in celebrity talent show Get Your Act Together with plate spinner illusionist Andrew Van Buren.

Sherrie Hewson reached the final on Day 29, and finished in sixth place.

In 2024, Sherrie Hewson was cast in a regular role on Channel 4's Hollyoaks as Martha Blake, the estranged grandmother of established character, Sienna Blake.

On 13 February 2014, Sherrie Hewson published a cookbook called Nana's Kitchen.

In 1972, Sherrie Hewson began a live-in relationship with John Rowlands, a banker, but he physically abused her.

Sherrie Hewson married the artist Hector Blamey; their marriage ended in divorce in 1974.

In May 1983, Sherrie Hewson married Ken Boyd, whom she had met in 1976, and had a daughter with him in 1984.

Sherrie Hewson described the experience as like having "a dreadful, contagious disease".