Pauline Fleming
Acting
Biography
Pauline Fleming is an English actress. Born in 1960 in the Sefton Park area of Liverpool, Lancashire, Fleming trained at the Elliot Clarke School of Dance and Drama. Since leaving drama school her theatre appearances include Alan Ayckbourne’s Chorus of Disapproval for Theatr Clwyd. She played both Maria and Antonio in Kaboodles Production of Twelfth Night, which opened at the Liverpool Everyman then did an international tour. Pauline also spent many years touring Children's Theatre productions performing the UK, Ireland and Europe. She went on to read English at Liverpool University. Her motivation was a fear of Shakespeare, which she finally overcame: she now regularly co-tutors on many workshops for Liverpool University. Fleming's TV credits include Heartbeat, Doctors and BBC’s Nice Guy Eddie, alongside Ricky Tomlinson. However, she is best known for her roles as Val Walker in Channel 4's Mersey soap opera Brookside (1996), and Penny King in ITV's longest-running soap opera Coronation Street (2003–2006). She completed a run in 'The Vagina Monologues' and went on tour playing Sarah in ‘The Naked Truth’. Fleming lives in Liverpool with her two cats, two dogs and daughter Cornelia. She also does much work for charity, particularly Pets As Therapy and recently lent her support and attended the re-launch of Birkenhead Royal British Legion branch, the first British Legion branch in the world. In 2013, she played Margie in the BBC comedy-drama Being Eileen.
Known For
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
Heartbeat
Set in the fictional Midlands town of Letherbridge, defined as being close to the city of Birmingham, this soap opera follows the staff and families of a doctor's surgery.
Doctors
The ground-breaking soap set in a housing estate on the outskirts of Liverpool.
Brookside
Moving On is a British television series set in contemporary Britain consisting of standalone dramas all sharing the theme of someone going through some kind of change in their life and moving on.
Moving On
All Quiet on the Preston Front (or the shortened Preston Front as it became known for series two and three) was a BBC comedy drama about a group of friends in the fictional Lancashire town of Roker Bridge, and their links to the local Territorial Army infantry platoon. It was created by Tim Firth and ran from 1994 to 1997.
(All Quiet on the) Preston Front
As Britain is rocked by unstable political, economic and technological advances, members of the Lyons family converge on one crucial night in 2019. Over the next 15 years, the twists and turns of their everyday lives are explored as we find out if this ordinary family could change the world.
Years and Years
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Nice Guy Eddie
Being Eileen is a BBC "heart-warming" comedy-drama which began as a new six-part series on 4 February, and ended on 11 March 2013. Originally titled Lapland, it was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 24 December 2011. Although initially a single 75-minute episode which was set in Lapland, Finland, it was announced to having a series renamed Being Eileen, consisting of six 30 minute episodes, due to the success of the single episode. The series, written by Michael Wynne, features an ensemble cast. Headed by Sue Johnston, who plays Eileen Lewis, the programme focusses on her, the widowed matriarch of a "large, close-knit and dysfunctional Northern family". The single episode focused on the family's visit to Lapland, whilst the series focusses on their life in Birkenhead. Elizabeth Berrington and Stephen Graham, play Eileen's children, whilst William Ash and Julie Graham play their partners.
Being Eileen
Candy Cabs is a comedy drama series shown on BBC One in April 2011. The plot revolves around a group of friends who set up a female-only taxi company in a seaside town in Northern England. It is written by Johanne McAndrew and Elliott Hope and produced by Splash Media.
Candy Cabs
In Liverpool, Joanne Conlon rescues a weeping statue of the Virgin Mary from her local church's replacement plans. As her family faces financial struggles and newfound success, the statue's tears return, turning their lives upside down and drawing crowds from near and far to witness the miraculous phenomenon.
The Virgin of Liverpool
As a terminally ill Liverpool gangster summons his estranged eldest daughter back to their hometown after a five-year absence, his youngest daughter, determined to inherit everything, plots to eliminate her.
Semolina Pilchard
Mixture of fictional and non-fictional thought-provoking short films aimed at students of school and college.
Scene
Trouble flares in a Liverpool terraced street when one man refuses to join in and paint his house in the local football teams colours. A tale of victimization and mob rule.