Waterloo Road star Lindsey Coulson's life off screen including EastEnders role and famous family

Lindsey Coulson is backmost connected our screens arsenic the no-nonsense headteacher successful the BBC reboot of Waterloo Road - but she's champion known for her relation arsenic Carol Jackson successful EastEnders

Lindsey Coulson, a acquainted look connected TV screens with a robust soap vocation and assorted roles, is joining Waterloo Road successful her latest TV role.

She volition beryllium playing the caller headteacher Dame Stella Drake, described arsenic 'a almighty surviving legend'. However, astir BBC viewers volition recognise her from her agelong stint successful EastEnders arsenic Carol Jackson. During her clip connected the BBC soap, she tackled dense storylines including bosom crab and heartbreak.

She archetypal joined the soap successful 1993, near successful 1997, returned successful 1999, and contempt stating successful 2008 that she would 'never' instrumentality to Watford, she came backmost successful 2010 and stayed until October 2015. Besides EastEnders, Lindsey has besides appeared successful The Bay, New Tricks, The Street and Doctor Who.

Away from her acting career, Lindsey is joined to Harry Harris, whom she wed successful 2002. She met Harry done a communal transportation - he's the member of Lindsey's erstwhile co-star and on-screen girl Patsy Palmer who played Bianca Jackson.

Before her narration with Harry, Lindsey was joined to showbusiness cause Philip Chard. Their matrimony was rocked by infidelity rumours successful 1996 erstwhile it was alleged that Lindsey had an matter with EastEnders co-star Michael French, who played David Wicks.

These rumours person ever been vehemently denied by Lindsey, who stated successful 1998: "Because our characters had an affair, they tried to marque it a existent beingness 1 and that was nonsense."

"He was a truly bully person and we started connected the amusement astatine the aforesaid time. Apparently 2 radical of the other enactment can't spell retired unneurotic without it being an affair, which is simply a shame.

Speaking astir her 23-year matrimony to Harry, she told Good Housekeeping: "I deliberation I emotion him much present than I did erstwhile I met him – conscionable successful presumption of having grown truly good together. It’s not hard work, though relationships tin be. I was fortunate capable to conscionable idiosyncratic who’s connected the aforesaid leafage arsenic me."

As the histrion gears up for her caller relation successful Waterloo Road, she's near EastEnders fans disappointed with the quality that she won't beryllium returning arsenic Carol.

However, the histrion has been wide that she doesn't spot herself reprising the role. In 2020, she stated successful an interview: "I don’t miss EastEnders astatine all. I utilized to say, ‘Never accidental never,’ but really I consciousness similar I’ve exhausted the character. I don’t consciousness similar there’s thing much that I would privation to explore. I don’t privation to enactment astatine that level immoderate more. It’s unthinkable the magnitude they person to bash and larn – I don’t privation it. I’m having specified beauteous experiences, and beingness is excessively short."

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