Actors - Eileen Derbyshire

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Eileen Derbyshire (born October 6, 1930 in Urmston, Manchester, United Kingdom) is a British character actress, best known for playing Emily Bishop in Coronation Street. It is a role she has played continuously since 1961, when Emily was an assistant in a ladies' clothing shop called Gamma Garments.

From the age of 17, Derbyshire was appearing in plays broadcast on the radio. After several small parts on television, she joined the cast of Coronation Street, firstly as an extra in episode 3, then as Miss Nugent in episode 15, when she became a regular. It took a year for the character to be given the forename 'Emily', however.

Derbyshire took a degree in teaching, trained at the Northern School of Music, and also passed her examination at the Royal Academy of Music. She began teaching speech and drama, but had always wanted to act. While on the bus one day, she passed Chorlton Repertory, and asked for an audition. She was enrolled as a student, and later became assistant stage manager. From there she joined Century Theatre's mobile touring company, and appeared in theatre all over the country, subsequently appearing in repertory theatre throughout Britain.

She married retired engineer Thomas Holt on April 1, 1965, and the following year, they had a son, Oliver, who is now Chief Sports Reporter for the Daily Mirror newspaper. The couple have a large cottage in Cheshire, and Derbyshire's interests include opera, reading, going to concerts, and holidaying in Vienna and Venice.

She is known for having a reclusive persona in the British press. She is rarely, if ever, interviewed, wishing to keep her personal life private. The Times described her as a modern-day Garbo.

In addition to this reclusive persona, she is known in the world of autograph collecting as a non-signer - she never honours requests received through the mail.

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