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Coronation Street Actress to Return for Third Stint on Soap After 9-Year Gap
The Bolton-born actress will play a new character as she returns for a third stint, with her role being kept under wraps.
- Bolton-Born actress Emma Matthews will return to Coronation Street for a third stint in a new role, nearly a decade after her last appearance on the ITV soap.
- Matthews previously appeared as a nurse at Weatherfield General Hospital between 2012 and 2015, then played social worker Fiona Crowley in 2017 who took Abi Webster's twins into care.
- Balancing her acting career with academic pursuits, the actress currently stars in the West End production of Billionaire Boy at the Garrick Theatre while studying a Master's qualification in Theatre Directing.
- While Matthews joins the cast, Claire Sweeney has left Coronation Street after three years on the soap, recently revealing she was "in total denial" about leaving the Dobbs house.
- Following her exit from the ITV soap, Sweeney is set to take on the role of Miss Hannigan in the UK tour of the musical Annie as her next project.
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