Read Katie Hind's exclusive report on why she is leaving centre stageWhen Sarah Lancashire finished playing Britain’s favourite fictional heroine Sergeant Catherine Cawood after three acclaimed series of Happy Valley, she made a decision.
Sarah Lancashire as Sgt Catherine Cawood and James Norton as Tommy Lee Royce in a scene from hit BBC drama series Happy Valley There will be many screenwriters who will mourn Ms Lancashire’s decision to wind down her acting commitments. Her award-winning ability to play feminist icons across all genres is legendary. Not that that’s something she particularly revels in, friends say.
The actress made her name as Raquel Wolstenhulme in Coronation Street, seen here in 1993 with Bill Roache as Ken BarlowShe had little idea of who Child was, other than that Meryl Streep had played her in a 2009 biopic, Julie & Julia – a role which secured the Hollywood A-lister an Oscar nomination. And she knew Child was a gregarious, successful middle-aged woman at a time it wasn’t easy to be one.
She decided to take her youngest son Joseph, now 18, and make a holiday of it. ‘We flew home and I forgot about it,’ Ms Lancashire added. But soon afterwards, her agent rang. America – finally – had come calling and her career hiatus was put on hold.But then the pandemic struck, halting filming after just three days. Production didn’t resume until the summer of 2021 – and Covid restrictions then meant she was unable to see her family back in Britain. Every cloud, though, has a silver lining.
She lives in a £3million, five-bedroom house on a quiet road in the South-West London enclave of Twickenham with her husband Peter Salmon, the former controller of BBC1, who famously refused to move to the BBC’s Salford HQ despite being the head of the Corporation’s North division.Sarah was catapulted to fame in 1991 thanks to her much-loved Corrie role as barmaid Raquel.
Of all her roles – even Raquel in Corrie –it was Sgt Cawood that struck a chord with women who were juggling careers with the travails of family life. It was created especially for her by Wainwright, who was so blown away with the actress’s Bafta-winning performance as lesbian headmistress Caroline in Last Tango In Halifax that she knew she wanted to work with her again.
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