Sarah Lancashire
Sarah Lancashire is an English actress whose career began in 1986. Lancashire's first acting roles were in local theatre, with small guest roles in television dramas and sitcoms. After coming to public attention with roles in popular programmes including Coronation Street (1991-1996, 2000), Where the Heart Is (1997–1999) and Clocking Off (2000), Lancashire signed a two-year golden handcuffs contract with the ITV network, appearing exclusively in ITV1 programming for the next two years. Lancashire has continued to work extensively across a variety of television drama genres, including guest appearances, regular roles in returning series and with featured roles in standalone miniseries' and television films. Her more prolific work includes the drama series' Lark Rise to Candleford (2008-2011), Last Tango in Halifax (2012-2020) and Happy Valley (2014, 2016, 2023).
Lancashire has appeared in the feature films And When Did You Last See Your Father? and Dad's Army and has returned to West End Theatre several times since her 1990 stint in Blood Brothers. Her combined acting credits have earned Lancashire a number of awards and nominations over a career spanning four decades and a prominent status within the British Television Industry of the 21st century. Lancashire was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to drama.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 12.389 |
Birthday | 1964-10-04 |
Place of Birth | Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK |
Also Known As | Sarah-Jane Abigail Lancashire, サラ・ランカシャー, Сара Ланкашир, Sara Lankašir, |
2001
Gentlemen's Relish
5/6
The career of the once successful classical portraitist, Kingdom Swann, has hit bad times. When a leading gallery rejects his work, he seems at the po...
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Gentlemen's Relish
1992
Exam Conditions
0/0
A teenage boy tries desperately to retrieve the rude caricature he accidentally handed in before his teacher notices.
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Exam Conditions
1995
Coronation Street - The Feature Length Special
0/0
Some burning questions will be answered when five of our best loved Coronation Street characters embark upon the cruise of a lifetime. Will we see ano...
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Coronation Street - The Feature Length Special
2003
Sons & Lovers
6/5
Filmmaker Stephen Whittaker adapts author D.H. Lawrence's simmering tale of sex, love, and family. In the years leading up to World War I, the problem...
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Sons & Lovers
2007
When Did You Last See Your Father?
6.6/62
The story of a son's conflicting memories of his dying father.
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When Did You Last See Your Father?
2016
Dad's Army
5/201
A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German...
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Dad's Army
2015
The Dresser
6.3/78
One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeares King Lear. Bom...
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The Dresser
2007
Sex, the City and Me
5.9/6
Fast-paced and powerful drama set in the high-octane world of the City of London.
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Sex, the City and Me
2002
Birthday Girl
0/0
A woman decides to celebrate her recovery from leukaemia by throwing a party. But before the big night, she discovers that the illness has returned. S...
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Birthday Girl
2001
Back Home
6/1
The war in Europe is over, but the one at home has only just begun. The Second World War is ending and throughout Britain, evacuees are returning home...
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Back Home
2002
The Cry
6/1
Psychological thriller about a woman child-protection officer tramautized by her stillbirth who befriends a woman in hospital and then becomes convinc...
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The Cry
2000
Seeing Red
0/0
Coral Atkins, a British soap star of the 1970s, becomes deeply affected by the plight of children from troubled homes. Against considerable odds, Cora...
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Seeing Red
2005
Cherished
7/2
A drama based on the true story of Angela Cannings, who was wrongly convicted of killing two of her children, on the basis of "expert witness" evidenc...
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Cherished
2006
Angel Cake
0/0
A cakemaker and her dysfunctional family live on a grimy estate. When Elaine's rock buns come out of the oven resembling the Virgin Mary, potentially...
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Angel Cake
2015
Fair Cop: A Century of British Policewomen
0/0
With 2015 marking the 100th anniversary of the first British policewoman being given the power of arrest, this film takes us through the remarkable hi...
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Fair Cop: A Century of British Policewomen
2015
The First Film
6.2/6
Leeds born filmmaker David Nicholas Wilkinson's thirty three year quest to prove that the worlds film industry started in Leeds, Yorkshire, England in...
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The First Film
2019
Yesterday
6.698/3878
A struggling musician realizes he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles after waking up in an alternate reality where they never exi...
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2021
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
6.1/139
Jamie New is 16 and doesn’t quite fit in—instead of pursuing a "real" career he dreams of becoming a drag queen. Uncertain about his future, Jamie kno...
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Everybody's Talking About Jamie
2000
My Fragile Heart
0/0
Trina Lavery returns home to Stoke after 20 years, to look after her ill mother. She learns that Bernard Cleve is also living in Stoke. Bernard was ac...
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My Fragile Heart
2018
Christmas at St Paul's
0/0
For the first time in its history, St Paul's has granted the BBC privileged access to film behind the scenes in the countdown to Christmas and on the...
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