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Top BAFTA TV nominee Happy Valley star Sarah Lancashire started her career as Coronation Street's young barmaid of the Rovers - but do YOU remember her character?
The twice BAFTA winner and Olivier Award nominee, 59, started from humble beginnings and some soap fanatics might remember her as the Rovers' barmaid in 1991.
Sarah, 59, first joined the cobbles as Raquel Watts in January 1991 and stole many viewers' hearts with her unique role until her time on the soap didn't end in November 1996 (pictured with Phil Middlemiss and Kevin Kennedy in 1995) In a typical Coronation Street plot twist, Raquel only gave birth to Alice after splitting from the supermarket manager, and eventually moved to France as housekeeper of Armand de Beaux (pictured in 1999) The actress built up a respectable career spanning about four decades in acting, now playing the much-loved police sergent Catherine Cawood in BBC drama Happy Valley (pictured on the show last year)
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