Siobhan Finneran is an English television and film actress from Oldham

Oldham

Oldham is a large town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies amid the Pennines on elevated ground between the rivers Irk and Medlock, south-southeast of Rochdale, and northeast of the city of Manchester...

 in Lancashire

Lancashire

Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

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Career

Siobhan's first major role was as Rita in the 1986 film, Rita, Sue and Bob Too. Since 2007 she has played Janice in ITV's popular comedy drama Benidorm

Benidorm (TV series)

Benidorm is an award-winning British television comedy-drama that is produced by Tiger Aspect for ITV and written by Derren Litten, co-writer of The Catherine Tate Show, exploiting the working-class stereotype of this popular tourist destination....

, appearing in all 4 series and both specials. She is also a regular cast member of acclaimed period drama series Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey is a British television period drama series, produced by NBC Universal-owned British media company Carnival Films for the ITV network. The series is set during the late Edwardian era and the First World War on the fictional estate of Downton Abbey in Yorkshire, and features an...

, appearing as Miss O'Brien.

Personal life

Siobhan is married to former Heartbeat star Mark Jordon

Mark Jordon

Mark Jordon is an actor from England best known for playing PC Phil Bellamy in the British TV Series Heartbeat, which he left in 2007...

, whom she married in 1997. They have two children, Joseph and Poppy. Her father is from Roscommon

Roscommon

Roscommon is the county town of County Roscommon in Ireland. Its population at the 2006 census stood at 5,017 . The town is located near the junctions of the N60, N61 and N63 roads.-History:...

, Ireland

Republic of Ireland

Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

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Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1986	Rita, Sue and Bob Too Rita, Sue and Bob Too Rita, Sue and Bob Too is a 1986 British film directed by Alan Clarke about two West Yorkshire teenaged schoolgirls who have a sexual fling with a married man. It was adapted by Andrea Dunbar, based on two of her stage plays; Rita Sue and Bob Too and The Arbor...	Rita
1989	Coronation Street Coronation Street Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...	Josie Philips	TV series (1989-1990)
1991	Josie		TV series (1 episode: "Episode #1.5")
	Cannon and Ball's Playhouse: Growing Concern	Carol	TV movie
	Motormouth	Milly	TV series (32 episodes: 1991-1992)
1993	Heartbeat	Janet	TV series (1 episode: "Bringing It All Back Home")
1994	Heartbeat	Tax Inspector	TV series (1 episode: "Wild Thing")
1995	Peak Practice Peak Practice Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time...	Caroline Royal	TV series (1 episode: "Light at the End of the Tunnel")
	Resort to Murder	Lena	TV mini-series (2 episodes)
	New Voices	Liz	TV series (1 episode: "The King of Farawania")
	The Russ Abbot Show The Russ Abbot Show The Russ Abbot Show was a British television comedy series which starred Russ Abbot and ran on the BBC from 1986 to 1991, and for 14 episodes on Granada Television from 1994 to 1995...		TV series (8 episodes: 1995-1996)
1996	Out of the Blue Out of the Blue (1995 TV series) Out of the Blue was a hard-hitting BBC police drama, set and filmed in Sheffield. It was described by series script editor Claire Elliot as "contemporary, gritty, urban reality"....	Fran Paiton	TV series (1 episode: "Episode #2.6")
1997	Where the Heart Is Where the Heart Is (1997 TV series) Where the Heart Is is a British television drama series set in the fictional town Skelthwaite.First shown in 1997, it was created by Ashley Pharoah and Vicky Featherstone...	Carol Bevan	TV series (1 episode: "Things Fall Apart")
1998	Hetty Wainthrop Investigates	Peggy Rainford	TV series (1 episode: "Child's Play")
	Emmerdale Emmerdale Emmerdale, is a long-running British soap opera set in Emmerdale , a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, Emmerdale was first broadcast on 16 October 1972...	Heather Hutchinson	TV series
1999	The Cops The Cops (TV series) The Cops is a British television series made by World Productions for the BBC.The production, set in the fictional town of Stanton in Northern England, was noted for its documentary-style camerawork and uncompromising portrayal of the police force...	Brenda Walsh	TV series (1 episode: "Episode #2.6")
2000	Always and Everyone Always and Everyone Always and Everyone was a British television drama that ran from 1999 to 2002. It dramatised the hectic everyday lives of the doctors and nurses running the Accident and Emergency department of the large, busy city hospital, St. Victor's. The series has never been released commercially on VHS or...	Karen Boyd	TV series (1 episode: "Episode #2.4")
	City Central	Carol Bell	TV series (1 episode: "Community Spirit")
	Clocking Off Clocking Off Clocking Off is a British television drama series which ran on the BBC One network for four series from 2000 to 2003. It was produced for the BBC by the independent Red Production Company, and created by Paul Abbott...	Julie O'Neill	TV series (21 episodes: 2000-2002)
2001	Bob and Rose Bob and Rose Bob & Rose is a British television drama, originally screened in six one-hour episodes on the ITV network in the UK in the autumn of 2001. It was produced for the network by the independent Red Production Company, and was that company's first prime-time drama for the ITV network.Bob & Rose was the...	Marina Marquess	TV series (3 episodes)
2002	Blood Strangers	WPC Melanie Whitaker	TV movie
	The King and Us	Jenny	TV movie
	Shipman	Kathleen Adanski	TV movie
	Sparkhouse Sparkhouse Sparkhouse is a BBC drama, originally shown in 2002, written by Sally Wainwright which is a modern take on Wuthering Heights.-Synopsis:Two young lovers battle against the odds to be together...	Sue Bolton	TV movie
2003	Heartbeat	Gloria Brown	TV series (1 episode: "Fool For Love")
2004	Passer By Passer By (TV film) Passer By is a British television film broadcast on BBC One in two parts on 28 and 29 March 2004. It was directed by David Morrissey from a script by Tony Marchant and stars James Nesbitt as Joe Keyes, a man who sees Alice, a young woman played by Emily Bruni, accosted by some men on a train one...	Helen Keyes	TV movie
	Conviction	Gail Cleary	TV series (1 episode: "Episode #1.4")
2005	Dalziel and Pascoe Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC TV series) Dalziel and Pascoe is a popular British television crime drama based on the Dalziel and Pascoe books by Reginald Hill, which was first broadcast in March 1996. It is set in Yorkshire, and is about two detectives...	Susie Ferdinand	TV series (2 episodes)
	Casualty Casualty (TV series) Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...	Sue Stedding	TV series (1 episode: "The Cost of Honesty")
2006	Johnny and the Bomb	Mrs. Bushell	TV movie
	The Royal The Royal The Royal is a British medical drama series produced by ITV. The show comprises one hour episodes which were normally first aired on ITV in the Sunday early evening slot....	Rita Hogg	TV series (1 episode: "Keep On Running")
	Wire in the Blood Wire in the Blood Wire in the Blood was a British crime drama television series, devised and produced by Coastal Productions for the ITV network that ran from 2002 to 2009. The series is based on characters created by Val McDermid; a university clinical psychologist, Dr Anthony "Tony" Valentine Hill , is teamed with...	D.I. Jan Shields	TV series (1 episode "Torment")
	The Amazing Mrs Pritchard The Amazing Mrs Pritchard The Amazing Mrs Pritchard was a British drama series that aired on BBC One in 2006. Produced by Kudos, it was written by Sally Wainwright and stars Jane Horrocks in the title role of a woman with no previous political experience who becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.-Background:Sally...	Beverley Clarke	TV series (4 episodes)
2007	Boy A Boy A (film) Boy A is a 2007 British film adaptation of Jonathan Trigell's critically acclaimed novel of the same name which shares some similarities with the notorious James Patrick Bulger case...	Kelly	TV movie
	Comedy Showcase Comedy Showcase Comedy Showcase is a series of one-off comedy specials featuring some of Britain's fledgling comedy talent. Its format is reminiscent of the much earlier Comedy Playhouse....	Shirley	TV series (1 episode: "Other People")
	Benidorm Benidorm (TV series) Benidorm is an award-winning British television comedy-drama that is produced by Tiger Aspect for ITV and written by Derren Litten, co-writer of The Catherine Tate Show, exploiting the working-class stereotype of this popular tourist destination....	Janice Garvey	TV series (22 episodes: 2007-2011)
2008	Apparitions Apparitions (TV series) Apparitions is a BBC drama about a priest, played by Martin Shaw, who examines evidence of miracles to be used in canonisation but also carries out exorcisms.The series is written by Joe Ahearne.- Episode 1 :...	Sister Ruth	TV series (5 episodes)
2009	Unforgiven Unforgiven (TV series) Unforgiven was a three-part British television drama series written by Sally Wainwright which was first broadcast on ITV in January 2009...	Izzy Ingram	TV series (3 episodes)
	The Street	Kim	TV series (1 episode: "Episode #3.3")
	Blue Murder Blue Murder (UK TV series) Blue Murder was a British crime drama television series based in Manchester. Shown on ITV from 2003 until 2009 when it was axed by the Network, it starred Caroline Quentin as DCI Janine Lewis.-Outline:...	Anita Burgess	TV series (1 episode: "Having It All")
	Coronation Street: Romanian Holiday Coronation Street: Romanian Holiday Coronation Street: Romanian Holiday is a DVD feature length film of the popular British soap opera Coronation Street released in October 2009.-Plot:...	Verity	Special made for DVD Only
2010	Casualty Casualty (TV series) Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...	Mel Riley	TV series (1 episode: "A Day in a Life")
	Downton Abbey Downton Abbey Downton Abbey is a British television period drama series, produced by NBC Universal-owned British media company Carnival Films for the ITV network. The series is set during the late Edwardian era and the First World War on the fictional estate of Downton Abbey in Yorkshire, and features an...	Sarah O'Brien	TV series (7 episodes)

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