Sharon Percy (born 28 September 1971) is a British
actress
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.
Biography
Percy was born 28 September 1971 in
Newcastle upon Tyne
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, England. Percy started her acting career at the age of eight. She joined the youth theatre at the New Tyne Theatre, and stayed as a member until she was eighteen. After a performing arts course at
Newcastle College
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, Percy was spotted by
Live Theatre Company
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's Artistic Director Max Roberts, and was cast in the play ''Your Home In The West'' alongside Geordie favourites like
Robson Green
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His first major TV role was as hospital porter Jimmy Powell in BBC drama series '' Casualty'' in 1989. He then went on to portray F ...
and
Charlie Hardwick
Claire Elizabeth Hardwick (born 3 November 1960) ''
Cooking with Elvis
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'' in London’s West End with comedian
Frank Skinner
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, Granada’s ''
Cracker
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'' with
Robbie Coltrane
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and
Ricky Tomlinson
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Kelly Brook
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I, Daniel Blake
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'' (2016)
*''Henry'' (2011)
*''The Ball'' (2010)
*''Because I Love You'' (2009) .... Angie
*''Kaz'' (2006)
*''Wicked'' (2005) .... Rita
*''Time for Bed'' (2004) .... Andrea
*'' School for Seduction'' (2003) .... Karen
*''
Billy Elliot
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*''Joe Maddison's War''
*''Grumpy Old Holiday''
*'' Steel River Blues''
*''
55 Degrees North
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*''The Welsh in Shakespeare''
*''
Byker Grove
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The show was set in Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne and was filmed in nearby Benwell. It was created by writer Adele Rose a ...
''
*''
Cracker
Cracker, crackers or The Crackers may refer to:
Animals
* ''Hamadryas'' (butterfly), or crackers, a genus of brush-footed butterflies
* '' Sparodon'', a monotypic genus whose species is sometimes known as "Cracker"
Arts and entertainment Films ...
''
*''Finney''
*''Harry''
*''Mean Streets''
*''Sex In The Dark''
*''The Audition''
*'' The Venchie''
*''Funny Man''
*''Walter Wall Commercial''
*''Winns Insurance Commercial''
*''
Vera
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''
Theatre
*''Chalet Lines''
*''The Magical Mess Up''
*''You'll Never Hook A Haddock''
*''The Last Post''
*''
Cooking with Elvis
''Cooking with Elvis'' is a dark comedy by playwright Lee Hall which was performed in 1999 in Edinburgh.
The farce was adapted from a play written for the award-winning BBC Radio ''God's Country'' series and premiered in 1999 in Edinburgh. It wa ...
''
*''Sleeping Beauty''
*''Twelve Tales of Tyneside''
*'' Blow Your House Down''
*''And A Nightingale Sang''
*''The Swinging Sisters''
*''
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''
*''
Dick Whittington
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*''Christmas Cat and The Pudding Pirates''
*''Your Home In The West''
*''There Was An Old Woman''
*''Up and Running''
Radio
*''Can't See For Looking'' (The Recall Man - Series Two) -
BBC Radio 4
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*''The Bottle Factory Outing'' -
BBC Radio 4
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*''The Painter and the Fisher Girl'' -
BBC Radio 4
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*''Mr Bellings Diner'' (Football Stories for Girls) -
BBC Radio 4
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*''Hook'' -
BBC Radio 4
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*''Frozen Images'' -
BBC Radio 3
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*''Eraser'' -
BBC Radio 4
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*''Selling Horses'' -
BBC Radio 4
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*''Deep Down'' -
BBC Radio 4
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*''My Uncle Freddie'' -
BBC Radio 4
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*''The Tyneside Mysteries'' -
BBC Radio 4
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*''Blood Sugar'' -
BBC Radio 4
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*''Gristle'' -
BBC Radio 3
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