Sarah Lancashire

Sarah Lancashire

Born (1964-10-10) 10 October 1964
Oldham, Lancashire, England
Occupation Actress
Years active 1987–present
Spouse(s) Gary Hargreaves
Peter Salmon (2001–present)
Children 3
Relatives Geoffrey Lancashire (father)

Sarah Lancashire (born 10 October 1964) is an English television, film and theatre actress, from Oldham. She trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 1986. To support herself, she taught drama at Salford University for five years alongside her acting career. Following a stint in the musical Blood Brothers in London's West-End in 1990, Lancashire was cast as Raquel Wolstenhulme in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street in 1991. After leaving the series in 1996, Lancashire found further success with roles in Where the Heart Is (1997–1999), Clocking Off (2000) and the television film Seeing Red (2000). In the summer of 2000, Lancashire signed a two-year golden handcuffs contract with ITV, making her the highest paid actress in UK television.

In 2004, Lancashire made her directorial debut on the anthology series The Afternoon Play. Subsequent acting roles included costume dramas such as the 2007 television adaption of Oliver Twist, Lark Rise to Candleford (2008–2011) and the 2012 television series The Paradise. In 2011, she played the female lead in the musical Betty Blue Eyes, for which she received an Olivier Award nomination. For her role as Caroline in the contemporary drama series Last Tango in Halifax (2012–), Lancashire won the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2014. In 2014, Lancashire earned further accolades for her leading role as sergeant Catherine Cawood in the crime thriller series Happy Valley.

Life and Career

Early life, training, career beginnings and motherhood (1964–1990)

Lancashire was born on 10 October 1964 in Oldham, Lancashire.[1] Her father Geoffrey Lancashire (1933–2004) was a television scriptwriter noted for his work on the soap opera Coronation Street and situation comedies such as The Cuckoo Waltz.[2][3] Her mother Hilda worked as Geoffrey's personal assistant.[2] She has three brothers, one her elder, one younger and a twin.[4] Lancashire was educated at Oldham Hulme Grammar School between 1976 and 1981.[5] At the age of 17, she started to suffer from clinical depression.[6]

Lancashire states that she was never driven by the ideas of fame and status.[2] Her background had inspired an initial interest in working behind the scenes in television.[7] She did not give serious thought to the performing until the age of 18.[7] After winning a place at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama — where her contemporaries included Shirley Henderson, Maggie O'Neill and Niamh Cusack — Lancashire realised that she enjoyed acting.[7] She graduated in 1986, describing her time as a student there as "tremendous" but "seriously hard work and quite intimidating".[7][8] After rejection from several repertory theatre companies, Lancashire was given her first acting role by Howard Lloyd-Lewis, artistic director of the Manchester Library Theatre Company, which provided her with an Equity Card.[9] Lancashire performed two plays with the company, Pacific Overtures and The Beauty Game, which she states formed "the start of my career as an actor".[10] She found her first professional acting experience "terrifying" as a result of the live audiences, recalling that, "because I wore a bathing costume in some of the scenes, I got heckled!"[9] She also realised that taking risks or underperforming could have had consequences for her acting career.[9]

At the age of 22, Lancashire married her first serious boyfriend, Gary Hargreaves, a music lecturer 11 years her senior, whom she had met four years earlier.[4] Recalling the circumstances of her marriage in 2001, Lancashire stated that she only married because she fell pregnant and possessed both a traditional mindset and a fear of the stigma of having a child out of wedlock.[11] Thomas, her first child with Hargreaves, was born in 1987; a second son, Matthew, was born in 1989.[12][13] During her early career, Lancashire found herself with large breaks between theatre appearances. To support herself financially, she worked as a drama teacher for five years at Salford University alongside her acting work.[7][12] In 1987, she made a brief appearance in Coronation Street as Wendy Farmer, a prospective lodger of series regular Jack Duckworth (Bill Tarmey).[14] In the late 1980s, she also appeared in an episode of the children's anthology series Dramarama,[14] and a single episode of the ITV sitcom Watching.[15] In 1990, Lancashire received her "big break" — the role of Linda in a production of Willy Russell's Blood Brothers at the Albery Theatre in London's West End.[7] Though she thoroughly enjoyed the experience, she found it difficult to reconcile performing in London with raising two young children in Manchester.[16]

Coronation Street and personal struggles (1991–1996)

The Coronation Street set, pictured in 2005. Lancashire starred in the serial for five years between 1991 and 1996.

Two weeks after finishing her run in Blood Brothers, Lancashire auditioned for the role of new Coronation Street character Raquel Wolstenhulme, a colleague of supermarket employee Curly Watts (Kevin Kennedy).[7][17] Lancashire joined on a three-month contract, continuing to teach at Salford University for another year.[12][18] Raquel first appeared on 25 January 1991 and departed on 10 May; having moved to London to try to launch a modelling career.[19][20] Lancashire had initially been reserved about Raquel's characterisation, noting that her "acidic side" could have rendered her the "street bitch" had it been embellished. She took care to highlight Raquel's potential, playing against what had been written to make her more comic, evoking audience sympathy.[12] Between 26 September and 19 October 1991, Lancashire played the title role in an adaption of Educating Rita at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch.[21] Following Raquel's reintroduction on 30 December 1991,[22] Lancashire committed herself to Coronation Street full-time.[18] She would remain in the series until 1996, earning a reported annual salary of £90,000.[23][24]

Two years into the role, she experienced a 14-month nervous breakdown but did not confide in anyone besides her close family or take any time off work, which in retrospect she deemed "the worst thing [she] could have done.[25] During the worst part of her experience Lancashire described herself as "hysterical at the thought of getting out of bed".[26] Her mother Hilda forced her to seek medical assistance for her condition, which Lancashire states "gave me my life back",[26] her twenties having been "a write-off".[27] Lancashire felt her first marriage had also contributed to her unhappiness; in 2001, she stated that though her marriage lasted ten years, it "was 10 years longer than it should have done".[4][11] In 1995 she separated from Hargeaves; the pair would ultimately later divorce.[11] She described leaving her marriage as a "cleansing experience" and a "renaissance"; one that enabled her to rediscover her sense of identity.[11] Other steps that Lancashire took to combat her depression included remaining single for five years, attending therapy sessions, and taking prescriptions of the anti-depressant drug, Paroxetine.[11]

In December 1995 Lancashire starred in the spin-off straight-to-video film Coronation Street – The Cruise, a 75 minute special detailing Raquel and Curly's honeymoon. The special was advertised as being exclusive to video, and 750,000 copies were sold, to the value of £10 million.[28] Lancashire departed Coronation Street in 1996 due to her heavy work schedule and desire to pursue other projects.[23][24] She had also tired of the fame the role brought her, shying away from personal appearances and interviews with television magazines.[29] Her final scenes attracted 20 million viewers.[23] Lancashire's performance in the role saw her nominated in the Most Popular Actress category at the 2nd National Television Awards in October 1996.[30]

Popular success in other roles (1997–2000)

Lancashire's next role was district nurse Ruth Goddard in the ITV drama series Where The Heart Is, which began airing in 1997.[31] Also in 1997 she filmed a situation comedy for the BBC, Bloomin' Marvellous, in which she played Liz, one half of an argumentative married couple trying for a baby.[32] However, due to poor viewing figures and a damning critical response the sitcom was not renewed.[33] Regarding the negative reception to the series, her co-star Clive Mantle saracastically remarked "I've seen murderers and rapists get a better press than we did".[34] Lancashire continued to star as Ruth Goddard in Where The Heart Is for its second and third series in 1998 and 1999. In 1998 she was nominated for her second National Television Award for Most Popular Actress.[35] In February 1999 she made a guest appearance in the British dark comedy anthology series Murder Most Horrid alongside comedian Dawn French. The pair played two yachtswoman whose journey ends with fatal repercussions.[36] In April it was announced that Lancashire would be quitting Where the Heart Is, despite an offered pay rise. At the time, Where the Heart is was the third most popular drama on British Television, regularly attracting 12 million viewers. Lancashire's decision was reportedly influenced by the series filming away from home, and a fear that remaining in the series long term would harm her career.[37] In January 2000 she expanded on her decision, stating that Ruth "was too chocolate-boxy, no longer a challenge".[13]

On 2 January 2000, Lancashire returned to Coronation Street for a single episode in which Raquel asks Curly for a divorce. Lancashire felt it was an apt time to return, as she was now a more confident actress and wanted to portray Raquel again before she aged significantly.[13] The series' producer at the time, Jane Macnaught, deemed Raquel one of Coronation Street's most popular ever characters and her return an opportunity for her "millions of fans" to learn what had become of her.[23] Lancashire and Kennedy were the sole actors in the episode, the first to feature just two characters.[38] From late January, Lancashire appeared as factory employee Yvonne Kolakowski, a widow with a dysfunctional personal life, in the BBC1 drama series Clocking Off. Lancashire used her own experiences as a single mother in her characterisation.[13] In March, she played actress Coral Atkins in the television film Seeing Red.[39] Lancashire found shooting the drama, which detailed Atkins' decision to quit her acting career in order to set up a care home for abused children, "mentally draining".[4] Lancashire then spent eight weeks filming the BBC1 legal sitcom Chambers in which she played "ambitious" and "bigoted" barrister Ruth Quirke.[4][40] The series was aired from June 2000.[40] Lancashire's final role in 2000 was in the two part drama thriller My Fragile Heart.[41] Lancashire's output in 2000 earned her several awards. She was voted best actress at the TV Quick Awards in September 2000 for her roles in Clocking Off and Seeing Red, and in October was voted Most Popular Actress at the 6th National Television Awards for Seeing Red.[42][43] In March 2001 she was named Drama Performer of the Year by the Television and Radio Industries Club, with mention of her work in Clocking Off and Seeing Red.[44]

"Golden Handcuffs" contract with ITV (2001–2003)

Lancashire's husband, the television executive Peter Salmon, pictured in 2012

Following Lancashire's success in connecting with a television audience, ITV sought to secure her exclusively to their network in a two-year golden handcuffs deal, which was finalised in July 2000.[45] Lancashire became the first actress to be given such a contract with ITV.[46] The deal, worth £1.3 million, made Lancashire the highest paid actress in British Television.[47][48] Discussing the exclusive signing ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott identified Lancashire as being someone with "a great range [who] creates a tremendous empathy with an audience".[49] He also admitted that heavy interest in Lancashire from the BBC had been a factor in giving her the contract, and blocking her from working with other networks.[49] Her last role on BBC1 during this period was comedy drama Gentleman's Relish, an adaptation of the Miles Gibson novel Kingdom Swann.[45][46] The television film, which aired on New Year's Day 2001, was Lancashire's first in the costume drama genre; she played a housekeeper harbouring romantic feelings for her employer (Billy Connolly).[50][51]

Her first role under her new contract with ITV was the six part drama The Glass opposite John Thaw.[45][46] The series, which aired between May and June 2001 saw Lancashire star as a saleswoman for a double-glazing company who ends up caught in a love triangle with her boss and his nephew.[45][52][53] Retrospectively, the series was judged not to be a success; it averaged 5.8 million viewers, less than rival show on BBC1, Messiah.[54] In August 2001, Lancashire married television executive Peter Salmon, in a low-key ceremony held at Langar Hall, Nottinghamshire.[47] Salmon had proposed to Lancashire in New York during a holiday at Easter time 2001.[11] The two began a romantic relationship in the summer of 2000,[11] though they had first met several years earlier whilst she was portraying Raquel on Coronation Street and he was employed by Granada Studios, which produces the soap opera.[47] In October Lancashire starred in an adaptation of the Michelle Magorian novel Back Home as Peggy Dickinson, a woman adjusting to life in post-war Britain after having been separated from her family during the war.[55]

In April 2002 Lancashire starred in the two part psychological thriller The Cry, which she described as her "most naked role yet".[56] She played a social worker grieving her second still-born child who is determined to protect a baby she perceives to be at risk of abuse.[56] Lancashire drew on her own experiences of clinical depression in her depiction of her character's mentality.[57] Her performance saw her awarded with a Golden Nymph award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival.[7][58] In April it was reported that Lancashire had been lined up play the lead role in comedy drama Life Begins, which creator Mike Bullen had written with Lancashire in mind.[59] However, by June, Lancashire had exited the drama, unwilling to commit to a potentially long running series.[60] Later that month BBC News and newspaper The Guardian reported that Lancashire had exited her exclusive deal with ITV, which would not be renewed after it expired in the Autumn. The decision was reportedly influenced by Lancashire's desire to reduce her workload and to have the freedom to take on other roles.[61][62] In September 2002 she appeared in a two-part crime drama pilot, Rose and Maloney, as legal investigator Rose Linden.[63] On 22 December she appeared in the television movie Birthday Girl as Rachel Jones, who plans a party to celebrate being in remission from a serious illness, only to discover that the disease has returned.[64] Lancashire's final role to air under her ITV contract was Gertrude Morel in an adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's 1913 novel Sons and Lovers, airing in January 2003. Lancashire felt a strong connection with the project, stating: "whatever the reason I do what I do, I felt I had come to a point where I could stop searching after this".[18] Paul Hoggart, reviewer for The Times wrote that Lancashire "steals the show" with a "performance of immense subtlety and quiet strength, proof, if we still needed it, that she has matured into a terrific actress."[65]

Directorial debut, career variety (2004–2010)

Lancashire portrayed Angela Cannings (pictured) in the 2005 television film Cherished, a dramatisation of the activist's bereavement and subsequent wrongful imprisonment.[66]

While pregnant with her third child, Lancashire began an 18-month career break, the longest of her working life.[67] In April 2003, Lancashire gave birth to her third son, Joseph.[68] Lancashire's first job after returning to work was her directorial debut on an episode of the BBC1 anthology series The Afternoon Play.[68][69] For "Viva Las Blackpool" she was given the Best Newcomer Award (sponsored by BBC Birmingham) at the Birmingham Screen Festival and the Best New Talent Award at the Royal Television Society (Midlands) awards in 2004.[70][71] The venture also earned her first British Academy Television Awards nomination in 2005 for Best new Director of Fiction.[72] Lancashire next filmed three two-part stories for Rose and Maloney, following on from the pilot episode in 2002.[68] The delay between shooting for the pilot and its follow-up was a result of Lancashire's career break and problems reconciling her availability with that of co-star Phil Davis.[7]

In 2005 Lancashire starred in The Rotters' Club as a housewife in 1970s Birmingham.[73] Also in 2005 she appeared in the BBC television film Cherished as Angela Cannings, a British woman who was wrongfully convicted of killing her two baby sons.[66] Lancashire was proud to be involved with the project, having greatly admired Cannings strength of character during her ordeal, and being able to relate to her sense of anguish as a parent.[66] In December 2005, Lancashire returned to West End theatre, taking on the role of Miss Adelaide in the Donmar Warehouse production of Guys and Dolls at the Piccadilly Theatre.[74] Lancashire was due to stay with the production until March 2006, but due to a severe chest infection made her last appearance on 4 January.[75] Lancashire's only television acting role in 2006 was as house-wife and cake-maker Elaine in the BBC comedy drama Angel Cake.[76] In November she presented an episode of the Five documentary series Disappearing Britain in which she interviewed people with memories of Wakes Week holidays in Blackpool during the early 20th century.[77] In February 2007 she made an appearance in the E4 teen drama series Skins.[78] This was followed by a leading role in the BBC Two television drama Sex, the City and Me as solicitor Ruth Gilbert.[79][80] In October, Lancashire appeared in her first feature film, David Nicholls' And When Did You Last See Your Father? in which she played aunt Beaty.[81] In December, she played the supporting role of Mrs Corney in the BBC's 2007 adaption of Charles Dickens' 1838 novel Oliver Twist.[82] Whilst ambivalent about the serial as a whole, The Daily Mirror's Jane Simon singled Lancashire out for praise stating that she "really sets the tone for the cold, unfeeling world into which orphaned Oliver is born."[83]

Between 2008 and 2011 Lancashire narrated the BBC1 series Lark Rise to Candleford, a costume drama based on Flora Thompson's memoir of her Oxfordshire childhood in the 1880s.[1][84] In April, she appeared in the opening episode of the 2008 series of Doctor Who, as "an enigmatic and powerful businesswoman" who Lancashire described as a "warped Mary Poppins".[85] She was amongst a number of high-profile actors the series' executive producer Russell T Davies secured for the fourth series of the science-fiction drama as part of his intention to make it "bigger and blowsier".[86] In 2009, Lancashire starred in the BBC1 musical drama series All the Small Things. She played Esther Caddick, a full-time mother who starts a choir after her husband leaves her for a more glamorous woman.[87] In July that year the actress was made a honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Huddersfield.[88] Following this, she reunited with director Coky Giedroyc, who had directed her in Oliver Twist, for a 2009 television adaptation of Emily Brontë's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights in which she played housekeeper Nelly Dean.[89][90] In 2010 Lancashire portrayed Rosemary Nicholls, mother of a murder victim, in the three-part BBC drama Five Daughters; a depiction of the Ipswich serial murders from the perspective of the victims and their families.[91] Also in 2010 she guest-starred in the police drama series Inspector George Gently.[92]

Continued success: Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley

The Novello Theatre, where Lancashire originated the role of Joyce Chilvers in Betty Blue Eyes in 2011.

In March 2011 Lancashire began starring in a new Cameron Mackintosh musical, Betty Blue Eyes, at the Novello Theatre.[93] In the production, a loose adaptation of the 1984 film A Private Function, she starred as Joyce Chilvers, an aspirational housewife who Lancashire describes as "brittle" and "capricious".[94] Despite positive reviews[95] the musical closed in London on 24 September 2011, after a run of just six months.[94][96] For her performance Lancashire was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical.[97] In 2012 she appeared as lady's maid Miss Whisset in the penultimate episode of the 2010 revival of Upstairs Downstairs.[98][99] In September 2012 Lancashire began appearing as Head of Ladieswear Miss Audrey in the six-part series The Paradise set in a department store in Northern England in the late 19th century.[100][101] Lancashire described her character as "a true archetypal spinster" who has long denied herself a romantic life and who begins to feel undermined by a younger colleague.[101]

Since November 2012 Lancashire has appeared opposite Anne Reid and Derek Jacobi in the BBC drama series Last Tango in Halifax. In the series she plays Caroline, an Oxford-educated headmistress who feels that her mother's second marriage gives her "permission" to be herself.[102] Caroline's same-sex relationship with a fellow teacher resulted in Lancashire receiving more fan mail than for any other role,[2] largely from women telling her that the series had helped them to come out.[103] Due to the under-representation of gay characters in television, Lancashire felt it particularly important that Caroline's experience would not be depicted inaccurately.[103] In her portrayal she opted to focus on the "humanity" of the character, rather than her sexuality.[103] Filming of the second series clashed with filming of the second series of The Paradise, which necessitated Lancashire leaving The Paradise partway through its second series.[104] For her role as Caroline she was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in both 2013 and 2014, winning in 2014.[105][106] At the 2015 Hay Festival Lancashire stated that of all the roles she has taken on in her career Caroline is the one she is most proud of, citing the "extraordinary impact" of the character.[107]

In 2014, Lancashire collaborated again with Last Tango in Halifax writer Sally Wainwright in the crime drama series Happy Valley. Wainwright was keen to write another role for Lancashire after being "blown away" by her performances in Last Tango in Halifax.[108] Lancashire portrays single-grandparent Catherine Cawood, a police sergeant still dealing with the aftermath of her daughter's rape, and subsequent suicide, eight years earlier.[2][108] Mark Lawson of The Guardian identified the performance as a career best for Lancashire, stating that she perfectly conveyed "the script's demandingly contradictory notes of tragedy, comedy, love, guilt, weakness and courage".[109] For this role she earned the TV Choice Award for Best Actress in 2014,[110] and the Royal Television Programme Award for Best Actress in 2015.[111] In September 2014 the Radio Times listed her as one of the thirty most powerful women in British television and radio.[112] In April 2015 she received her fourth BAFTA television nomination, her first in the Best Actress category.[113] In June 2015 she was named Best Actress in a Drama Series at the 2015 Monte Carlo Television Festival.[114]

In March 2015 Lancashire began filming a television adaptation of Ronald Harwood's 1980 play The Dresser.[115] In the teleplay, which aired in October 2015, Lancashire portrayed stage manager Madge, whose unrequited love for 'Sir' (Anthony Hopkins), the head of a repertory theatre company, pits her at odds with his dresser and confidant, Norman (Ian McKellen).[116] Lancashire appeared in the 2016 feature film Dad's Army, based on the situation comedy series of the same name.[117]

Filmography

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1987 Coronation Street Wendy Farmer One episode
1988 Dramarama Janice Dobbs One episode: "Forever Young"
1989 Watching Ms Lynden One episode: "Joking"
1991–1996, 2000 Coronation Street Raquel Watts Series Regular
1997 Bloomin' Marvellous Liz Deacon Six episodes
1997–1999 Where the Heart is Ruth Goddard Inaugural lead
1999 Murder Most Horrid Karen Sullivan One episode : "Going Solo"
2000 Clocking Off Yvonne Kolakowski Five episodes
Seeing Red Coral Atkins Television Film
Chambers Ruth Quirke Six episodes
My Fragile Heart Trina Lavery Two part drama
2001 Gentleman's Relish Violet Askey Television Film
The Glass Carol Parker Six episodes
Back Home Peggy Dickinson Television Film
2002 The Cry Meg Bartlett Two part drama
Birthday Girl Rachel Jones Television film
2002, 2004–2005 Rose and Maloney Rose Linden Eleven episodes
2003 Sons and Lovers Gertrude Morel
2005 The Rotters' Club Barbara Chase Three part serial
Cherished Angela Cannings Television film
2006 Angel Cake Elaine Wilson Television film
2007 Skins Mary One episode
Sex, The City and Me Ruth Gilbert Television film
Oliver Twist Mrs Corney Five part serial
2008 Doctor Who Ms. Foster One episode: "Partners in Crime"
2008–2011 Lark Rise to Candleford Adult Laura Voice/Narration
2009 Wuthering Heights Nelly Dean Two part drama
All the Small Things Esther Caddick Six episodes
2010 Five Daughters Rosemary Nicholls Three part serial
Inspector George Gently Mallory Brown One episode: "Peace and Love"
2012 Upstairs Downstairs Miss Whisset Two episodes
2012–2013 The Paradise Miss Audrey Lead role
2012-present Last Tango in Halifax Caroline McKenzie-Dawson Lead role
2014-present Happy Valley Catherine Cawood Lead role
2015 The Dresser Madge

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2007 And When Did You Last See Your Father? Beaty
2016 Dad's Army Mrs Pike

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Work Result
1996 National Television Award Most Popular Actress Coronation Street Nominated[30]
1998 National Television Award Most Popular Actress Where the Heart is Nominated[35]
2000 National Television Award Most Popular Actress Seeing Red Won[43]
2000 TV Quick Award Best Actress Seeing Red
Clocking Off 		Won[42]
2001 TRIC Award Drama Performer of the Year Seeing Red
Clocking Off 		Won[44]
2002 Golden Nymph Award
Presented by the Monte-Carlo Television Festival 		Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series The Cry Won[7][58]
2004 Royal Television Society Awards (Midlands) Best New Talent "Viva Las Blackpool" (The Afternoon Play) Won[70]
2005 British Academy Television Award Best New Director (fiction) "Viva Las Blackpool" (The Afternoon Play) Nominated[72]
2012 Laurence Olivier Award Best Actress in a Musical Betty Blue Eyes Nominated[97]
2013 British Academy Television Award Best Supporting Actress Last Tango in Halifax Nominated[105]
2013 Royal Television Society Awards (North West) Best Performance in a Single Drama or Drama Series Last Tango in Halifax Nominated[118]
2014 British Academy Television Award Best Supporting Actress Last Tango in Halifax Won[106]
2014 TV Choice Award Best Actress Happy Valley Won[110]
2014 Royal Television Society Awards (North West) Best Actress in a Drama Series Happy Valley Won[119]
2014 Satellite Award Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Happy Valley Nominated[120]
2015 National Television Award Best Dramatic Performance Happy Valley Nominated[121]
2015 Broadcasting Press Guild Award Best Actress Happy Valley
Last Tango in Halifax 		Nominated[122]
2015 Royal Television Society Programme Awards Best Actor (female) Happy Valley Won[111]
2015 British Academy Television Awards Leading Actress Happy Valley Nominated[113]
2015 Golden Nymph Award
Presented by the Monte-Carlo Television Festival 		Best Actress in a Drama Series Happy Valley Won[114]

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