Joanne Whalley

Joanne Whalley (born 25 August 1964 in Stockport, then in Cheshire, now in Greater Manchester is an English actress. Brought up in Stockport, Whalley first appeared in How We Used To Live and bit parts in soap operas, especially Coronation Street and Emmerdale. Her early film roles include a non-speaking part as a groupie in Pink Floyd's The Wall; and as a young Beatles fan in Birth of the Beatles. In the post punk era, she flirted with the fring... more

Joanne Whalley (born 25 August 1964 in Stockport, then in Cheshire, now in Greater Manchester is an English actress. Brought up in Stockport, Whalley first appeared in How We Used To Live and bit parts in soap operas, especially Coronation Street and Emmerdale. Her early film roles include a non-speaking part as a groupie in Pink Floyd's The Wall; and as a young Beatles fan in Birth of the Beatles. In the post punk era, she flirted with the fringes of the Manchester New Wave scene and was briefly a member of a Stockport based band called The Slowguns but left before the release of their two singles. Later, in 1982, at Abbey Road Studios as the lead singer of the pop group Cindy & The Saffrons, they recorded the Shangri-Las song "Past, Present and Future" and the next year, "Terry" by Twinkle. The group split up soon thereafter. In 1982 she starred as Ingrid Rothwell in a highly acclaimed Granada TV Series of Stan Barstow's novel A Kind of Loving and its two follow-on books. Joanne... less