Valerie Lilley is a Northern Irish actress who has played many television roles on dramas such as Doctors and Grange Hill

Grange Hill

Grange Hill is a British television drama series originally made by the BBC. The show began in 1978 on BBC1 and was one of the longest running programmes on British television...

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Lilley currently appears on Channel 4

Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...

's serial drama Shameless

Shameless

Shameless is a British television drama series set in Manchester on the fictional Chatsworth council estate. Produced by Company Pictures for Channel 4, the first seven-episode series aired weekly on Tuesday nights at 10pm from 13 January 2004...

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Lilley trained with Joan Littlewood’s Arts Workshop in London during the early sixties and received an early boost, which included appearing alongside Stephen Rea

Stephen Rea

Stephen Rea is an Irish film and stage actor. Rea has appeared in high profile films such as V for Vendetta, Michael Collins, Interview with the Vampire and Breakfast on Pluto...

. She spent many years as a stage actress throughout the UK. In 1982 she took a minor role in another local television play, Stewart Parker’s Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain, starring Frances Tomelty

Frances Tomelty

Frances Tomelty is a Northern Irish actress and the first wife of Sting. She is the daughter of Belfast actor Joseph Tomelty ....

. Also in 1982, Lilley appeared in two other televised plays, '‘Potato Head Blues’' and the troubles rooted ‘'Billy Boy’' with James Ellis

James Ellis (actor)

James Ellis is an actor from Northern Ireland with a television career of more than 45 years. He went to school at Methodist College Belfast and later studied at both Queen's University Belfast and the Bristol Old Vic....

. Lilley was also a regular in ITV's ill-fated Albion Market

Albion Market

Albion Market was a short-lived British soap opera, intended as a companion to Coronation Street on ITV.Coronation Street, ITV's perennial soap opera, celebrated its 25th anniversary in December 1985. Granada TV launched Albion Market in August of that year, six months after the BBC's EastEnders...

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