Susan Cookson
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Susan Cookson is an English
television
actress. She lives in Sheffield
with her husband, actor Malcolm Scates, and her two children Ruari and Dan. She also has two sisters.
Susan Cookson first fell in love with acting when she was working as a costume designer in a local theatre. The casting director promised her a role on stage, since when she has never looked back.
Until August 2008 she was a cast member of BBC One
's BAFTA winning medical drama Casualty
, playing Dr Maggie Coldwell. This was Cookson's second role on the programme after appearing in Series 13-14 as an occasional character, anaesthetist Julie Day. She returned for one episode at the end of March 2009 on the day that co-stars Janine Mellor
and Ivana Bašić
left the series.
Susan also appeared in the BBC Birmingham drama Doctors (2000 TV series) as Mrs Kath Wylie on Wednesday, 23 September 2009. This role was followed in further episodes on Friday 4 December and Monday 7 December 2009.
On BBC Radio 4 she played Jodie in Spread A Little Happiness, a nicely crafted comedy by John Godber and Jane Thornton, set in a Yorkshire sandwich bar. The series first aired on 1 July 2009 with a repeat opening on 10 February 2011.
Her character Maggie Coldwell won Favourite Series 22 Female, All-Time Female, Character Most Want to return, and Best Couple -Maggie & Charlie in the recent Holby.tv Awards 2008.
England
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television
Television
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actress. She lives in Sheffield
Sheffield
Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and with some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely...
with her husband, actor Malcolm Scates, and her two children Ruari and Dan. She also has two sisters.
Susan Cookson first fell in love with acting when she was working as a costume designer in a local theatre. The casting director promised her a role on stage, since when she has never looked back.
Until August 2008 she was a cast member of BBC One
BBC One
BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...
's BAFTA winning medical drama Casualty
Casualty (TV series)
Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...
, playing Dr Maggie Coldwell. This was Cookson's second role on the programme after appearing in Series 13-14 as an occasional character, anaesthetist Julie Day. She returned for one episode at the end of March 2009 on the day that co-stars Janine Mellor
Janine Mellor
Janine Mellor is an English actress. She is best known for playing Kelsey Phillips in BBC One's BAFTA-winning drama Casualty...
and Ivana Bašić
Ivana Bašic
Ivana Bašić is a Croatian actress who starred in the BBC medical drama Casualty as Serbian paramedic Snezana Lalovic. It was announced on February 12, 2009 that she was to leave the series at the end of March, along with co-star Janine Mellor...
left the series.
Susan also appeared in the BBC Birmingham drama Doctors (2000 TV series) as Mrs Kath Wylie on Wednesday, 23 September 2009. This role was followed in further episodes on Friday 4 December and Monday 7 December 2009.
On BBC Radio 4 she played Jodie in Spread A Little Happiness, a nicely crafted comedy by John Godber and Jane Thornton, set in a Yorkshire sandwich bar. The series first aired on 1 July 2009 with a repeat opening on 10 February 2011.
Selected Roles
- Waterloo RoadWaterloo Road (TV series)Waterloo Road is an award-winning British television drama series, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 March 2006. Set in a troubled comprehensive school in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, the series focuses on the lives of the school's teacher and students, and confronts social...
- Maria Lucas (2010) - Land GirlsLand Girls (2009 TV series)Land Girls is a British television period drama series, first broadcast on BBC One on 7 September 2009. Land Girls was created by Roland Moore and commissioned by the BBC to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. The programme was BBC Daytime's first commission of a...
- Esther Reeves (2009) - Moving OnMoving On (TV series)Moving On is a British television series consisting of standalone contemporary dramas first shown on daytime BBC One. Although originally broadcast in an early-afternoon slot, less than a month after the initial airing the first series was repeated to an evening audience...
- Barbara (2009) - CasualtyCasualty (TV series)Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...
- Julie Day (1998–2000); Maggie Coldwell (2005–2008) - Early DoorsEarly DoorsEarly Doors is a BBC sitcom written by Craig Cash and Phil Mealey who also appear in the series playing best friends Joe and Duffy. The setting is The Grapes, a small public house in Greater Manchester, where daily life revolves around the issues of love, loneliness and blocked urinals...
- Tanya (2003–2004) - EmmerdaleEmmerdaleEmmerdale, is a long-running British soap opera set in Emmerdale , a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, Emmerdale was first broadcast on 16 October 1972...
- DI Judy Dove (2003) - Shipman - DC Marie Snitynski (2002)
- Fat FriendsFat FriendsFat Friends is an ITV drama , following a group of overweight people, their laughter and pain and addresses the absurdities of dieting in our modern age. The drama looks at people and how they relate to one another and use body weight as an excuse for all sorts of failings in their relationships,...
- Lynette Pickering (2000) - Clocking OffClocking OffClocking Off is a British television drama series which ran on the BBC One network for four series from 2000 to 2003. It was produced for the BBC by the independent Red Production Company, and created by Paul Abbott...
- Janice Piper - Queer as FolkQueer as Folk (UK TV series)Queer as Folk is a 1999 British television series that chronicles the lives of three gay men living in Manchester's gay village around Canal Street. Both Queer as Folk and Queer as Folk 2 were written by Russell T Davies...
- Marcie Finch
Awards
Cookson won Fave Female of Series 21 of Casualty in the 2007 www.holby.tv awards.Her character Maggie Coldwell won Favourite Series 22 Female, All-Time Female, Character Most Want to return, and Best Couple -Maggie & Charlie in the recent Holby.tv Awards 2008.