Profile: Coronation Street Director, Noreen Kershaw

With thanks to one of our followers on twitter, http://twitter.com/smantykinkers for asking a question which prompted this blog post.  Her question was - Is Corrie Director Noreen Kershaw, the same Noreen Kershaw who was on Brookside?  As a huge Brookside fan, I couldn't resist following this up and was quite surprised by what I found. Not only is Corrie producer Noreen Kershaw an accomplished actress, who yes, was indeed on Brookside as Kathy Roache, she's also been on Life on Mars as WPC Phyllis Dobbs and is one of those actresses whose face you'll recognise from all kinds of quality drama.

In an interview with the Chorley Citizen, Noreen says her acting days are now over "unless another Life on Mars comes along". In addition to directing Coronation Street, she's also directed Emmerdale, Heartbeat and Shameless.  And she's also appeared on the other side of the camera with a role in a 1975 episode of Corrie as a character called Tracey Spencer. 

We all know that there's so much talent in front of the camera and it's about time we started to recognise all the hard work that goes on behind it. We've already done profiles for the blog of all the writers and it seems now it could be time to do the same with the team of directors, too.