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 Katherine Kelly aka Becky MacDonald from Coronation Street
- Biography
Katherine
Kelly, (born on 19 November 1979 in Barnsley,
South Yorkshire, England, UK), is a British
actress and is best known for currently playing
Becky MacDonald, fromaly Granger in ITV soap
opera Coronation Street.
She attended Wakefield Girls High School. She
has strong links with The Lamproom Theatre in
Barnsley, established in 1998 by her father
John, and has regularly supported fund-raising
events held there.
She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
(RADA), London, with fellow students Meredith
MacNeill and Laurence Fox, graduating in 2001.
She worked at Chichester Festival Theatre in The
Accrington Pals with actress Amy Robbins and at
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester in Othello
with Andy Serkis and Lorraine Ashbourne. Since
then she has worked extensively in TV, Film,
Radio and Voice-over. She was a leading lady at
the Royal Shakespeare Company 2004-2005,
performing in both Stratford-Upon-Avon and the
West End.
Her character in Coronation Street Becky is the
obsessive former friend of Kelly Crabtree, whom
she framed for theft. Becky returned in November
2006, when she met Hayley Cropper, her former
workmate, who was teaching at an ex-offenders
literacy class. After being reconciled with
Hayley, she promised Hayley that she'd cleaned
up her act, and was offered employment at Roy's
Rolls Cafe on a trial period. However, it was
not long before she soon began breaking objects,
threatening customers and stealing money from
the till. On 17 June 2008 the actress and
character impressed bosses and signed her for a
further 12 months where she as Becky went on to
marry Steve MacDonald and move into the Rover
Return. Actress Katherine Kelly stated in an
interview with female first that she loves her
character's 'trailer trash' appearance.
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