Sue Cleaver

Sue is an actress best known for playing Eileen Grimshaw in the long-running ITV soap Coronation Street, leaving shortly after celebrating her 25th year on the cobbles.

Sue is a regular guest panellist on Loose Women, a regular guest presenter on BBC Radio Manchester and has also been seen in the jungle in I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! And in the most recent series of Celebrity Masterchef

Sue is also an author, publishing her part memoir and part self-help book about living fearlessly A Work in Progress in 2024.

Her other TV credits include City Central (BBC), dinnerladies (BBC), This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper (Granada Television), Peak Practice (Central Independent Television), Casualty (BBC), Reckless: The Sequel (Granada Television), The Cops (BBC), King Girl (BBC), Band of Gold (Granada Television), Harry Enfield’s Brand Spanking New Show (Sky) and A Touch of Frost (ITV). Her film credits include The Man Who Cried and Girls’ Night.

Sue has won awards at the TV Now Awards and TV Choice Awards and has been nominated twice for Most Popular Actress at the National Television Awards and twice for Best Actress at The British Soap Awards.

Sue is also an accomplished theatre actress, performing at prestigious venues such as The Royal Exchange, Birmingham Hippodrome, Derby Theatre, Cork Opera House, Grand Opera House Belfast, King’s Theatre Glasgow, Grand Opera House York, Steven Joseph Theatre and the Octagon Theatre Bolton. Most recently she toured the country as Mother Superior in Sister Act The Musical, starred in the acclaimed revival of Alan Ayckbourn’s Snake In The Grass at Theatr Clwyd/Bolton Octagon and headlined the Christmas Panto at Hull New Theatre.

After appearing in the original TV show, she is delighted to be a part of the dinnerladies cast and can’t wait to whip up a storm in the kitchen!