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Lisa Coleman (actress)

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Lisa Coleman
Born
Lisa Jacqueline Coleman

(1970-07-10) 10 July 1970 (age 54)
Hammersmith, London, England
Occupations
  • Actress
  • therapist
Years active1977–present
Parent(s)Francis Coleman
Ann Beach
RelativesCharlotte Coleman (sister)

Lisa Jacqueline Coleman (born 10 July 1970)[1] is an English actress best known for her television roles as Jude Korcanik in Casualty (1994–1997) and Cam Lawson in The Story of Tracy Beaker (2002–2005). Coleman reprised the role in Tracy Beaker Returns (2010–2012), My Mum Tracy Beaker (2021) and The Beaker Girls (2021–2023).[2]

Career

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Lisa Coleman was born in Hammersmith, London.[3] She is the sister of television and film actress Charlotte Coleman and the younger daughter of Ann Beach and Francis Coleman.[3] Lisa Coleman attended Anna Scher Theatre School at age six, going on to complete secondary education and A-levels.[4]

Her first appearance, as a child actress, was on a 1977 episode of Crown Court.[4] Her first film role was a minor appearance in the 1981 film Loophole.

By the mid-1990s, Coleman had started a Bachelor's degree in Psychology with the UK Open University.[5] In September 1994, she began a three year run on the BBC television drama series Casualty, playing the character of staff nurse Jude Korcanik. Coleman left the series in February 1997, when her character moved to Crete.[6]

In 1993 she modelled for Euan Uglow's painting Articulation, posing nude.[7][8]

Her radio work includes a six-part series for the BBC in 1999, Old Dog and Partridge.[9]

She attended her graduation ceremony in June 2005, after studying for more than a decade.[5] In a subsequent interview for the Open University's alumni magazine Sesame expressed her desire to continue working with the National Health Service and long-term aim to earn a Master of Arts degree.[5]

Coleman has been a volunteer occupational therapist in a psychiatric unit.[10]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
1981 Loophole Daniel's Daughter
1991 The Hottest Day of the Year Maja
1996 Vol-au-vent Christine

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1977 Crown Court Leonie Klein Episode: "Down Will Come Baby"
1980 Play for Today Zoe Clements Episode: "A Walk in the Forest"
1981 BBC2 Playhouse Jennifer Episode: "Elizabeth Alone"
1985 Travellers by Night Belle TV mini-series
1990 London's Burning Nurse Series 3, episode 6
Casualty Sharon Dobbs Episode: "Salvation"
1991 Screenplay Jesse Dealing Episode: "Redemption"
1992 A Fatal Inversion Office Girl Series 1, episode 3
Absolutely Fabulous Joanna Episode: "ISO Tank"
1993 Press Gang Phillipa Prescott Episode: "Food, Love and Insecurity"
The Chief Jo Seriea 3, episode 5
Scarlet and Black Elisa Series 1, episode 1
The Bill Lisa Carpenter Episode: "Shock to the System"
1993, 1996 French and Saunders Shirley 2 episodes
1994 Scene Veronica Episode: "SAB"
1994–1997 Casualty Jude Korcanik Series regular, 70 episodes
1995 Bottom Doreen Hedgehog Episode: "Terror"
1997 Attractions Presenter Visits a monkey sanctuary[11]
1997 Scoop Presenter [12]
1998 Undercover Heart Sarah May Series regular
1999 Home Farm Twins Angela Baker Unknown episodes
2000 Peak Practice Sharon Willett Episode: "Ghosts"
The Bill Gayle Tyler Episode: "Catch a Falling Star"
2001 McCready and Daughter Andie Bennett Episode: "No Bed of Roses"
2002–2005 The Story of Tracy Beaker Cam Lawson Series regular, 52 episodes
2003 EastEnders: Perfectly Frank Teri Phillips EastEnders spin-off film
2004 Tracy Beaker's Movie of Me Cam Lawson Television film
2010–2012 Tracy Beaker Returns Series regular, 21 episodes
2011 Hollyoaks Morag Guest role, 4 episodes
2021 My Mum Tracy Beaker Cam Lawson Series regular
2021–2023 The Beaker Girls Series regular

Radio

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  • Lisa in Afternoon Theatre: a home of our own (1980, Radio 4)
  • Emily in No Commitments
  • Nicola in Old Dog and Partridge

References

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  1. ^ "Lisa Coleman". The Casualty Files. holby.tv. Archived from the original on 26 October 2007. Retrieved 9 October 2009.
  2. ^ Morris, Lauren (14 October 2020). "BBC reveals first look at Tracy Beaker and her daughter in new CBBC series". Radio Times. Archived from the original on 1 November 2020. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
  3. ^ a b Hayward, Anthony (1996). Who's Who on Television. Boxtree Ltd. ISBN 075221067X.
  4. ^ a b "Beating Heart". Wales on Sunday. 27 September 1998. p. 59 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ a b c "BSc for Lisa" (PDF). Sesame. No. 227. The Open University. 2005. p. 15. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 December 2005. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
  6. ^ "Character: Jude Korcanik". bbc.co.uk. BBC. Archived from the original on 19 December 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
  7. ^ Lampert, Catherine (2007). Euan Uglow: the Complete Paintings: Catalogue Raisonné. London: Yale University Press. p. 185. ISBN 9780300123494.
  8. ^ "Life Modelling for Euan Uglow". Register of Artists' Models. Archived from the original on 5 February 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
  9. ^ "Search results for 'old dog and partridge'". BBC Programme Index. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
  10. ^ Taylor-Whiffen, Peter (4 October 2005). "How to be a well qualified success". The Independent.
  11. ^ "Channel 5". The Times. 18 April 1997. p. 47.
  12. ^ "Watch out for". The Times. 5 July 1997. p. 3[S4].
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