Sarah's days as Raquel on Corrie seem a lifetime ago
Sarah Lancashire was a name already familiar in living rooms up and down the UK, thanks to her role as Raquel in Coronation Street.
To help make ends meet at the time the 58-year-old, worked as a drama tutor at the University of Salford. It was finally in the early 1990's when she got herself a breakthrough role as barmaid Raquel Wolstenhulme in the ITV soap Coronation Street from 1991 to 1996 and again in 2000. She added: "I fully believed I’d lose work if I admitted to it. Tranquillisers were the worst thing for it and I ended up in a terrible mess. My twenties were a write-off.
When Sarah was 22 she married her first husband Gary Hargreaves, who was 11 years older than her, out of pressure not to have a child out of wedlock. She told The Telegraph: "I got married only because I was pregnant. Simple as that. I am a very traditional girl and was horrified at the thought of having a child out of wedlock. I didn't want a child of mine to be different or have fingers pointed at.
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