Tracy Brabin

Tracy Brabin (born 1962, Batley, West Yorkshire) is an English actress and television writer. She was educated at Heckmondike Grammar School, and studied Drama and English at Loughborough University.

Brabin is best remembered for her roles as clumsy waitress Sandra opposite David Jason in A Bit of a Do (ITV), Tricia Armstrong in Coronation Street from 1994 to 1997 and Ginny in Richard Harris's Outside Edge. She has also appeared in EastEnders as Roxy Drake, The Ghost Hunter as Mrs Oliver (BBC television), and Love + Hate directed by Dominic Savage. In 2006, she appeared in an episode of Midsomer Murders entitled "Dead Letters". In 2008, she began to appear in a series of commercials for supermarket chain Sainsbury's playing the role of Sarah, a mother-of-two and Sainsbury's employee who does her weekly shopping at the store.^[1]

Brabin has written for Heartbeat, Family Affairs, Crossroads, Tracy Beaker, and was team writer on Hollyoaks for two years. With two feature films in development with Sally Hibbin at Parallax East, she has also written Shameless for Company Pictures and has been a team writer for three series onSeacht - nominated for Best Youth Programme Irish Film and Television Awards 2011. More recently she has been working with mentor Elizabeth Karlsen, producer of Made in Dagenham, on a romantic comedy feature called Father August for the prestigious She Writes programme celebrated at BAFTA March 2011. Minkie Spiro is attached to direct. Tracy's first episode of Doctors will be screened on BBC1 Dec 17th 2012.

Tracy recently took the lead role in Shelagh Stevenson's' The Long Road at Curve theatre in Leicester directed by Adel Al Salloum. In 2012 she played Maggie, a mother who comes to realise she is one of a race of aliens, in artist Shezad Dawood's first feature, the sci-fi art-house film A Piercing Brightness. Tracy can be seen playing Linda in the play of The Full Monty written by Simon Beaufoy from January 2013 opening in Sheffield before touring Birmingham, Bristol, Canterbury, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Belfast, Dublin, Salford, Southampton, Southend and Leeds and coming into the West End summer 2013.^[2]

Personal life

She married her long term partner Richard Platt in July 2005. The couple have had two daughters called Lois and Nancy born during the 1990s.

Television

• Casualty (2009) April
• Sainsbury's Ad Campaign (2008-) Sarah
• The Bill (2008) Isabel Edgar
• Doctors (2008) Amanda Webster
• Casualty (2007) Vee Kitching
• The Good Samaritan (2007) Gloria
• The Real Extras (2007) Herself
• Doctors (2006) Tina Machin
• Strictly Confidential (2006) Tina Roebottom
• Midsomer Murders (2006) Ruth Chalk (1 episode, 2006)
• Rosemary & Thyme (2006) Nicola Spicer
• An Audience with Coronation Street (2006) Herself
• Holby City (2005) Stella Howard
• Love + Hate (2005) Gaynor
• Coronation Street: The Duckworth Family Album (2005) Herself
• Heartbeat (2004) Sandra Tetley
• Bodies (2004) Karen Taylor
• Is Harry on the Boat? (2003) Isobel
• The Bill (2002) Pam
• Silent Witness (2002) Nina Palmer
• Nice Guy Eddie (2002) Stephanie
• Holby City (2001) Lucy Gartside
• EastEnders (2001) Roxy Drake
• Doctors (2000) Lucy Carlton
• The Bill (2000) Mrs. Sanderson
• Where the Heart Is" (2000) Stella Taylor
• Ghosthunter (2000) Mrs. Oliver
• Sunburn (1999) Sheila Adams
• Mayday Mayday (1995) Sylvia Redpath
• Coronation Street (1994–1997) Tricia Armstrong
• Outside Edge (1994–1995) Ginnie Willis
• Peak Practice (1994) Lou Clarke
• Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After (1992) Sarah, Duchess of York
• El C.I.D. (1992) Fran
• Riff-Raff (1991) Singer
• Hale and Pace (1989–1991)
• A Bit of a Do (1989) Sandra Pickersgill

Television writing

• Doctors (2012)
• Hollyoaks (2008-2010)
• Shameless (2009)
• Family Affairs (2005)
• Heartbeat (2005)
• Tracy Beaker Parties with Pudsey (2004)
• The Story of Tracy Beaker
• Crossroads (2001)

References

External links

• Tracy Brabin at the Internet Movie Database