Renee Bradshaw

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Coronation Street character
Reenie Bradshaw
Played by	Madge Hindle
Duration	1976-1980
Marital Status	Deceased
Occupation	corner shop proprietor
Family	Terry, Alf

Irene "Renee" Bradshaw was a character who appeared on the British soap opera Coronation Street from 1976 to 1980. She was played by Blackburn actress Madge Hindle. Hindle's career began when her friend playwright Alan Bennett asked her to join the cast of his comedy series On The Margin. Due to the BBC's old policy of wiping its old footage, no episodes of that series are known to survive.

Having impressed future Coronation Street producer Bill Podmore when she played Lily Tattersall in the Granada TV comedy series Nearest and Dearest, she was offered the role of Renee, a feisty young woman who would buy the corner shop from Maggie Clegg and cause problems in the street by refusing long-standing customers 'tick' (credit) and fighting local landlady Annie Walker in order to obtain a licence to sell drink.

Renee was essentially a lonely woman. She hadn't really bought the shop out of any genuine desire to make money, more to provide a stable environment for her wayward brother Terry, who had never been able to settle down after leaving the army. Renee was hurt when he re-enlisted in the army, feeling her kindness had been thrown back in her face. Alone at the shop, she grew increasingly close to post office employee Alf Roberts. Despite seeming a very odd couple indeed, they married in 1978.

Podmore decided that Renee must be written out, and she was killed when her car was hit by a lorry, having stalled at a red light in a country lane. Although paramedics tried to save her at the scene of the accident, she died shortly afterwards, her spleen perforated by shards of flying glass.