Beverley Callard Bio - Biography

Name Beverley Callard
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Naionality British
Date of Birth 1957,
Place of Birth Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
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Beverley Jane Moxon was born in Leeds on March 28, 1957 to a baker father, Clive and a concert pianist, Mavis. She has a sister, Stephanie. At the age of seven, Bev made her acting debut as Darius the page boy. After leaving school she took a job as a shorthand typist. She later turned to acting and appeared on stage as Jaqui Coryton in Noel Coward's Hay Fever, Liz and Rita in Billy Liar and The Wicked Queen in Snow White.

Bev made her television debut (as Beverley Sowden) in the Yorkshire Television soap Emmerdale Farm as Angie Richards in 1983. The character dated the show's heart-throb Jackie Merrick, played by actor Ian Sharrock. The following year Bev played Gail and Brian Tilsley's friend June Dewhurst in Coronation Street. Other roles followed including parts in Hinge & Bracket: Dear Ladies, Hells Bells, Will You Love Me Tomorrow and The Practice.

In 1989 Bev joined Charles Lawson, Nicholas Cochrane and Simon Gregson as the new McDonald family in Coronation Street, making her debut on 27 September. Bev's character of Liz McDonald has since had to endure being a battered wife, a kidnap victim, harassed mother and unfaithful wife.

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