The ongoing storyline involving Pat Phelan and runaway villain
Vinny Ashford introduced us to a familiar face recently, as we met Vinny’s mother Flora
McArdle. Easily manipulated, Phelan has been using elderly Flora to get
information on Daniel’s investigative plans and of course he’s keen to track
down fugitive Vinny – who’s real name we now know is Harvey McArdle.
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| Eileen as Mrs McArdle |
Mrs McArdle is played by actress Eileen Davies, who you may
have spotted on ITV’s hit show ‘Liar’ recently starring Downton Abbey’s Joanne
Froggatt. Amazingly, Eileen again plays a confused elderly relative of serial
rapist Andrew (Ioan Gruffudd), who he too manipulated in order to get away with
his scheming and lies.
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| Aunt Sylvia in ITV's 'Liar' |
Eileen doesn’t just play confused old ladies though, and she
has actually been in Coronation Street before. Most recently she played Celia
Smethurst, a church-going friend of Emily Bishop who was part of a little club
of funeral gate-crashers that included Blanche Hunt. And even further back than
that she has appeared as Judge Carmichael on two separate occasions in 2006.
Do any of you know who has played the most different
characters in Coronation Street?
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