Sarah Lancashire

Sarah Lancashire

Sarah Lancashire is an English actress whose career began in 1986. Lancashire's first acting roles were in local theatre, with small guest roles in television dramas and sitcoms. After coming to public attention with roles in popular programmes including Coronation Street (1991-1996, 2000), Where the Heart Is (1997–1999) and Clocking Off (2000), Lancashire signed a two-year golden handcuffs contract with the ITV network, appearing exclusively in ITV1 programming for the next two years. Lancashire has continued to work extensively across a variety of television drama genres, including guest appearances, regular roles in returning series and with featured roles in standalone miniseries' and television films. Her more prolific work includes the drama series' Lark Rise to Candleford (2008-2011), Last Tango in Halifax (2012-2020) and Happy Valley (2014, 2016, 2023). Lancashire has appeared in the feature films And When Did You Last See Your Father? and Dad's Army and has returned to West End Theatre several times since her 1990 stint in Blood Brothers. Her combined acting credits have earned Lancashire a number of awards and nominations over a career spanning four decades and a prominent status within the British Television Industry of the 21st century. Lancashire was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to drama.

  • Title: Sarah Lancashire
  • Popularity: 11.317
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1964-10-04
  • Place of Birth: Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Sarah-Jane Abigail Lancashire, サラ・ランカシャー, Сара Ланкашир, Sara Lankašir
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Sarah Lancashire Movies

  • 2001
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    Gentlemen's Relish

    Gentlemen's Relish

    5 2001 HD

    The career of the once successful classical portraitist, Kingdom Swann, has hit bad times. When a leading gallery rejects his work, he seems at the...

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  • 1992
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    Exam Conditions

    Exam Conditions

    1 1992 HD

    A teenage boy tries desperately to retrieve the rude caricature he accidentally handed in before his teacher notices.

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  • 1995
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    Coronation Street - The Feature Length Special

    Coronation Street - The Feature Length Special

    1 1995 HD

    Some burning questions will be answered when five of our best loved Coronation Street characters embark upon the cruise of a lifetime. Will we see...

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  • 2003
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    Sons & Lovers

    Sons & Lovers

    6 2003 HD

    Filmmaker Stephen Whittaker adapts author D.H. Lawrence's simmering tale of sex, love, and family. In the years leading up to World War I, the...

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  • 2007
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    When Did You Last See Your Father?

    When Did You Last See Your Father?

    6.595 2007 HD

    The story of a son's conflicting memories of his dying father.

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  • 2016
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    Dad's Army

    Dad's Army

    5 2016 HD

    A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German...

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  • 2015
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    The Dresser

    The Dresser

    6.2 2015 HD

    One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeares King Lear....

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  • 2007
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    Sex, the City and Me

    Sex, the City and Me

    6.214 2007 HD

    Fast-paced and powerful drama set in the high-octane world of the City of London.

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  • 2002
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    Birthday Girl

    Birthday Girl

    1 2002 HD

    A woman decides to celebrate her recovery from leukaemia by throwing a party. But before the big night, she discovers that the illness has returned....

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  • 2001
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    Back Home

    Back Home

    6 2001 HD

    The war in Europe is over, but the one at home has only just begun. The Second World War is ending and throughout Britain, evacuees are returning...

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  • 2002
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    The Cry

    The Cry

    6 2002 HD

    Psychological thriller about a woman child-protection officer tramautized by her stillbirth who befriends a woman in hospital and then becomes...

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  • 2000
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    Seeing Red

    Seeing Red

    1 2000 HD

    Coral Atkins, a British soap star of the 1970s, becomes deeply affected by the plight of children from troubled homes. Against considerable odds,...

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  • 2005
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    Cherished

    Cherished

    7 2005 HD

    A drama based on the true story of Angela Cannings, who was wrongly convicted of killing two of her children, on the basis of "expert witness"...

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  • 2006
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    Angel Cake

    Angel Cake

    1 2006 HD

    A cakemaker and her dysfunctional family live on a grimy estate. When Elaine's rock buns come out of the oven resembling the Virgin Mary, potentially...

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  • 2015
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    Fair Cop: A Century of British Policewomen

    Fair Cop: A Century of British Policewomen

    1 2015 HD

    With 2015 marking the 100th anniversary of the first British policewoman being given the power of arrest, this film takes us through the remarkable...

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  • 2015
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    The First Film

    The First Film

    6.2 2015 HD

    Leeds born filmmaker David Nicholas Wilkinson's thirty three year quest to prove that the worlds film industry started in Leeds, Yorkshire, England...

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  • 2019
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    Yesterday

    Yesterday

    6.698 2019 HD

    A struggling musician realizes he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles after waking up in an alternate reality where the group was...

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  • 2021
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    Everybody's Talking About Jamie

    Everybody's Talking About Jamie

    6.1 2021 HD

    Jamie New is 16 and doesn’t quite fit in—instead of pursuing a "real" career he dreams of becoming a drag queen. Uncertain about his...

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  • 2000
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    My Fragile Heart

    My Fragile Heart

    1 2000 HD

    Trina Lavery returns home to Stoke after 20 years, to look after her ill mother. She learns that Bernard Cleve is also living in Stoke. Bernard was...

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  • 2018
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    Christmas at St Paul's

    Christmas at St Paul's

    1 2018 HD

    For the first time in its history, St Paul's has granted the BBC privileged access to film behind the scenes in the countdown to Christmas and on the...

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  • 2004
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    In Search of Tony Blair

    In Search of Tony Blair

    1 2004 HD

    Ten years after he stepped to power as Labour leader, Tony Blair remains a national enigma. His persona as a fresh-faced idealist and man of the...

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  • 1997
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    Where the Heart Is

    Where the Heart Is

    6.5 1997 HD

    Where the Heart Is is a British television family drama series set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Skelthwaite. It focuses on the professional and...

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  • 1991
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    Murder Most Horrid

    Murder Most Horrid

    6.6 1991 HD

    A comedy that started in 1991 as a pilot, Murder Most Horrid stars Dawn French as various characters, as she embarks on a different mystery every...

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  • 2007
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    Skins

    Skins

    8.1 2007 HD

    Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.

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  • 2006
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    The One Show

    The One Show

    4.6 2006 HD

    A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.

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  • 2000
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    Chambers

    Chambers

    1 2000 HD

    Comedy about a group of barristers who never let justice get in the way of making pots of money.

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  • 2022
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    Julia

    Julia

    7.4 2022 HD

    Through Julia Child’s life and her singular joie de vivre, the series explores a pivotal time in American history – the emergence of...

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  • 2008
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    Lark Rise to Candleford

    Lark Rise to Candleford

    8.3 2008 HD

    Set in the small hamlet of Lark Rise and the wealthier neighbouring market town, Candleford, the series chronicles the daily lives of farm-workers,...

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  • 2009
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    Wuthering Heights

    Wuthering Heights

    7 2009 HD

    Foundling Heathcliff is raised by the wealthy Earnshaws in Yorkshire but in later life launches a vendetta against the family.

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  • 2007
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    Oliver Twist

    Oliver Twist

    6.524 2007 HD

    Oliver is born into poverty and misfortune - the son of an unmarried mother, who dies shortly after his birth. He is soon delivered to the workhouse,...

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  • 2002
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    Rose and Maloney

    Rose and Maloney

    6 2002 HD

    Rose and Maloney investigate old criminal cases, seeking to rectify miscarriages of justice.

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  • 2005
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    The Rotters' Club

    The Rotters' Club

    1 2005 HD

    Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais' adaptation of Jonathon Coe's novel follow a group of Birmingham teenagers, and their families, through the 1970s.

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  • 2006
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    Angel Cake

    Angel Cake

    5 2006 HD

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  • 2010
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    Five Daughters

    Five Daughters

    6.3 2010 HD

    The stories of five young women who were tragically murdered in Ipswich in 2006.

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  • 2012
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    Last Tango in Halifax

    Last Tango in Halifax

    7.156 2012 HD

    Celia and Alan are both widowed and in their seventies. When their respective grandsons put their details on Facebook, they rediscover a passionate...

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  • 2005
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    Doctor Who

    Doctor Who

    7.539 2005 HD

    The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a...

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  • 2014
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    Happy Valley

    Happy Valley

    8 2014 HD

    Happy Valley is a dark, funny, multi-layered thriller revolving around the personal and professional life of Catherine, a dedicated, experienced,...

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  • 2012
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    The Paradise

    The Paradise

    7.3 2012 HD

    An intoxicating love story set in England's first department store in the 1870s. The Paradise revolves around the lives of the people who live and...

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  • 2020
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    Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

    Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

    8.143 2020 HD

    Widely celebrated as Alan Bennett's masterpieces, his multi-award-winning Talking Heads return to BBC One. Filmed during lockdown under social...

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  • 2000
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    Clocking Off

    Clocking Off

    7.4 2000 HD

    How much do you know about the person working next to you? From the outside, life at Mackintosh Textiles appears to run smoothly, but in a community...

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  • 1989
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    About Face

    About Face

    6 1989 HD

    About Face is a series of twelve unconnected half-hour sitcoms all starring Maureen Lipman in the lead role. Each episode featured a guest cast of...

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  • 2001
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    The Glass

    The Glass

    1 2001 HD

    Jim Proctor, a middle-aged tycoon, decides to hand over his glass-making company to his young nephew Paul Duggan.

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  • 2024
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    Black Doves

    Black Doves

    7.248 2024 HD

    When a spy posing as a politician's wife learns her lover has been murdered, an old assassin friend joins her on a quest for truth — and...

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  • 2007
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    Oliver Twist

    Oliver Twist

    6.524 2007 HD

    Oliver is born into poverty and misfortune - the son of an unmarried mother, who dies shortly after his birth. He is soon delivered to the workhouse,...

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  • 2018
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    Kiri

    Kiri

    6.3 2018 HD

    A drama dealing with the abduction and murder of a young black girl, soon to be adopted by her white foster family, and the trail of lies, blame,...

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  • 1987
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    Going Live!

    Going Live!

    6 1987 HD

    Going Live! was a Saturday morning magazine show, broadcast on BBC1 between 1987 and 1993. It was presented by Phillip Schofield and Sarah...

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  • 2009
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    All the Small Things

    All the Small Things

    10 2009 HD

    Uplifting drama series from the writer of Cutting It about family and community, played out with rousing choruses, joyous harmonies and booming...

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  • 1960
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    Coronation Street

    Coronation Street

    5.3 1960 HD

    The residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them through regular social and family interactions at...

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  • 1960
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    Coronation Street

    Coronation Street

    5.3 1960 HD

    The residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them through regular social and family interactions at...

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  • 1997
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    Bloomin' Marvellous

    Bloomin' Marvellous

    1 1997 HD

    Bloomin' Marvellous is a 1997 BBC comedy series starring Clive Mantle, Sarah Lancashire, and Kathryn Hunt. Written by playwright John Godber, it is...

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  • 2019
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    The Accident

    The Accident

    6.339 2019 HD

    Tragedy strikes the welsh town of Glyngolau when an accident on a construction site kills a group of trespassing children. Grief quickly turns to...

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  • 2014
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    Happy Valley

    Happy Valley

    8 2014 HD

    Happy Valley is a dark, funny, multi-layered thriller revolving around the personal and professional life of Catherine, a dedicated, experienced,...

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  • 2002
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    The Cry

    The Cry

    6 2002 HD

    Psychological thriller about a woman child-protection officer tramautized by her stillbirth who befriends a woman in hospital and then becomes...

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  • 2017
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    School of Roars

    School of Roars

    6 2017 HD

    Class is in session for mini-monsters Wufflebump, Meepa, Icklewoo, Wingston and Yummble, who learn quirky lessons from their teacher Miss...

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