Sue Cleaver (born 2 September 1963) is a British actress. She plays Eileen Grimshaw on the ITV soap opera, Coronation Street, a role which she has played since 2000. She also played Glenda, delivering baked goods in Victoria Wood’s BBC comedy series, Dinnerladies, which ran for two series from 1998 to 2000.
Meet Sue Cleaver’s Mother And Father
Cleaver is adopted and has two half-sisters from her birth mother, actresses Emma and Kate Harbour.
The actor explained to her fellow contestants that she was adopted and did not meet her birth mother until she was in her early twenties.
When she was in drama school, she recalled that the Royal Exchange in Manchester was looking for “tiny parts” for the theatre production of Oedipus.
After walking into an audition, Sue shared that an actor said to her: “Oh my god, she’s the absolute double of my wife when I met her.
The actor then asked Cleaver for her date of birth. He then asked the young actor where she was born and she replied ‘Barnet’, before he rang his wife and said ‘I’ve found her’.
At hearing the story, property expert Scarlette Douglas gasped, saying: “What!”