Bill Tarmey
| Born | April 4, 1941 |
| Hometown | Ardwick, United Kingdom |
| Spouse | Ali Tarmey |
| Children | Sara Piddington, Carl Piddington |
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Coronation Street's Samia Longchambon flooded with co-star support as she makes '24 year' announcement
- The actress is famed for playing Maria Windass - nee Sutherland and Connor - in the ITV soap
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Coronation Street stars past and present say Ta-ra to Liz Dawn, aka Vera Duckworth
Coronation Street stars past and present say Ta-ra to Liz Dawn, aka Vera Duckworth
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Vera Duckworth was as common as muck – and what fun she had | Barbara Ellen
It was sad to see that Liz Dawn, who played Vera Duckworth in Coronation Street, has died. As Vera, Dawn brilliantly encapsulated a type that was both quintessentially northern and working class – salt of the earth and common as muck with it.
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Corrie icon Liz Dawn remembered with TV tribute tonight
<em>Farewell Vera</em> will be on ITV3 straight after the soap airs.
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Bill Roache pays poignant tribute to former Coronation Street co-star Liz Dawn
Liz played Vera Duckworth in the ITV soap.
- NewsThe Independent
Remembering Elizabeth Dawn: Coronation Street star who came to define a generation
Coronation Street is the best of the North, this liminal space made real by time and repeated viewing, where the bones of lives are given form on typewriter and laptop, and given flesh by words spoken from mouths as familiar as those of our own family. Coronation Street is more than the faintly-praised damnation of a “soap opera”, Vera Duckworth was more than a mere “character”, and Liz Dawn, who portrayed Vera on screen for 34 years and who has died, aged 77, was never just an actor. Liz Dawn
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Elizabeth Dawn: The actress who found fame as loudmouth Vera Duckworth in Coronation Street
The blonde curls and foghorn voice of soap opera’s most recognisable loudmouth, Vera Duckworth of Coronation Street, made Elizabeth Dawn a star. Dawn’s screen partnership with William Tarmey as Vera’s husband, Jack, was one of the great comedy double acts in Coronation Street’s long history. The couple bickered constantly and Vera even walked out on Jack several times and had affairs, but no one ever believed they would ever part for good – they were made for one another.
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Liz Dawn, Coronation Street 'legend' who played Vera Duckworth, dies at 77
Liz Dawn, Coronation Street 'legend' who played Vera Duckworth, dies at 77
- NewsThe Telegraph
Liz Dawn's best moments as Coronation Street's Vera Duckworth
Liz Dawn's best moments as Coronation Street's Vera Duckworth
