Susan Elizabeth Jenkins was born on 31 July 1958 and is an English actress.
20 Facts About Sue Jenkins
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Sue Jenkins is most widely known for her roles as Gloria Todd in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street and as Jackie Corkhill in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside.
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Sue Jenkins worked in repertory theatres across the UK for the first 11 years of her career, performing in many productions, playing everything from works by Alan Ayckbourn to those of Shakespeare.
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Sue Jenkins began to work more on television including How We Used To Live and, as the "platinum blonde", in the cult TV programme, The Beiderbecke Affair.
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Sue Jenkins left the show in 1988 after becoming pregnant with her second child, Richard, who played Craig Harris in the soap from 2002 until 2006.
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Sue Jenkins returned to television in the series Coasting with Peter Howitt and from 1991 until 2001 playing the part of Jackie Corkhill in the Liverpool based, and often controversial, Channel 4 soap opera Brookside.
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Sue Jenkins appeared on Lily Savage's Blankety Blank in 2001.
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Sue Jenkins appeared in the film, Blue Collars and Buttercups.
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Sue Jenkins is regularly heard on BBC Radio 4 afternoon dramas.
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Sue Jenkins has directed many pantomimes across the UK and produced her son, Richard Fleeshman's first concert in 2006 at Tameside Theatre.
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Sue Jenkins was voted 'Woman of the Year' in 2008 for her Charity work and was honoured by This Is Your Life in 2001.
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Sue Jenkins performed in Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues at the Empire Theatre, Liverpool and in 2010 starred in the 3-month Autumn National Tour of The Vagina Monologues, playing in 65 theatres across the country.
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In 2009, Sue Jenkins appeared in an episode of Doctors starring opposite her own daughter, Emily Fleeshman.
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Sue Jenkins produced and directed an open-air production of As You Like It at Plas Coch in Anglesey, her second production at the venue, having directed A Midsummer Night's Dream there in 2013.
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Sue Jenkins played Phyllis Feld, mother of Marc Bolan in the highly acclaimed UK national tour of 20th Century Boy until 19 July 2014.
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Sue Jenkins has produced and directed five studio productions at The Lowry Theatre.
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Sue Jenkins directed Build a Bonfire by Trevor Suthers and another Suthers' play, Toil and Trouble, for JB Shorts in April 2016.
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Sue Jenkins directed Virtuoso by Bill Humble at 3MT Theatre and produced and directed the award-winning Narcissist in the Mirror.
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Sue Jenkins starred in Cuckoo by Michael Wynne at The Royal Court Theatre in London in 2023, which transferred to The Everyman Theatre in Liverpool.
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Sue Jenkins is married to the actor David Fleeshman and they have three children, actors Emily, Richard and Rosie.