Sue Jenkins
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Susan Elizabeth Jenkins (born July 31, 1958 in Liverpool) is an English actress.
She married the actor David Fleeshman in 1978 and they now have three children - Emily, Richard and Rosie.
Sue became an actress at the age of eighteen having studied at drama college. She worked in repertory theatres up and down the country for the first 11 years of her career,performing in over a hundred plays. Sue then started to work more on television including Hoe We Used To Live and the cult tv programme, The Beiderbecke Affair. She first came to prominence in 1985 when she joined the cast of top rated British soap opera, Coronation Street, playing barmaid Gloria Todd in 238 episodes. She left the show in 1988 after becoming pregnant with her second child, Richard, who went on to play Craig Harris in the soap from 2002 until 2006.
She returned to television in 1990 playing the part of Jackie Corkhill in the Liverpool based, and often controversial, Channel 4 soap opera Brookside. She left the show in 2001 after over a decade of being one the show's major stars, garnering critical acclaim for her portrayal of the wife of Jimmy Corkhill, a character who was involved in high-profile storylines including drug dealing, drug addiction, car crime and burglary. Her departure from the show coincided with the break-up of Jimmy and Jackie Corkhill's marriage.
Since leaving Brookside, Jenkins continues to make guest appearances on British television, including 'In Deep', Holby' 'Merseybeat, Dalziel & Pascoe and still to be televised,'Midsomer Murders' Sue has also presented Loose Women in 2006.
Sue is also a director and in 2005 and 2006, wrote, produced and directed Night of Stars 1 and 2 at the Palace theatre, Manchester. She has also directed Aladdin at the Tameside Hippodrome Theatre in 2006 , produced her son, Richard Fleeshman's first concert in 2006 at the same theatre and is producing yet another Musical Extravaganza there in March of this year.
