10 Facts About Sophiya Haque

Sophiya Haque was an English actress, singer, video jockey and dancer.

Sophiya Haque is best known for playing the role of Poppy Morales in Coronation Street between 2008 and 2009.

Sophiya Haque was brought up by her mother, Thelma, a schoolteacher.

Sophiya Haque attended Priory School in Portsmouth, and took dancing lessons from the age of two and a half at Mary Forrester's Rainbow School of Dance before moving at the age of 13 to London, training full-time at the Arts Educational Schools, London.

Sophiya Haque started as the lead vocalist in the band Akasa; they signed a deal with Warner Bros.

Sophiya Haque was employed as a presenter at STAR TV in Hong Kong in 1992.

In 2002, Sophiya Haque returned to the United Kingdom to star as Rani in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bombay Dreams.

Sophiya Haque was diagnosed with cancer when she was working in the Michael Grandage production of Privates on Parade, playing the role of, Sylvia Morgan, a Welsh-Indian singer and dancer performing for the British troops in Malaya in 1948.

Sophiya Haque lived in Knaphill, Surrey, with her partner, musical director David White, and the couple were in the process of building a houseboat when she fell ill.

Sophiya Haque developed a lung clot and pneumonia and in the early hours of 17 January 2013, she died in her sleep in a London hospital, while undergoing tests.