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Old 19-10-2014, 12:55
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So I was looking at actors who have left soaps and checking where they are now and was wondering if anyone is surprised by any actors who didn't go on to bigger things. Are there any actors you think are too good for soaps?
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Old 19-10-2014, 13:08
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I thought Jessie Wallace would have got more work when she left EE. She did a great Elsie Tanner in that Corrie docudrama.
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Old 19-10-2014, 13:11
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Lacey Turner. I thought she would have done a lot. She did a few things, I remember her doing that live show while still at EE. The Our Girl one off was the only thing I saw her in after EE. Then when she returned she did Out Girl again. But otherwise I saw her on one thing after EE.
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Old 19-10-2014, 14:14
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I thought Jessie Wallace would have got more work when she left EE. She did a great Elsie Tanner in that Corrie docudrama.

She was very good as the old time music hall star, (Marie Lloyd?)
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Old 19-10-2014, 14:17
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Lacey Turner. I thought she would have done a lot. She did a few things, I remember her doing that live show while still at EE. The Our Girl one off was the only thing I saw her in after EE. Then when she returned she did Out Girl again. But otherwise I saw her on one thing after EE.
Lacey did a lot of normal jobs after leaving EE since she never got to experience them when she was younger. She started filming for EE the day after she left school, so she never had a Saturday job or anything - I think she said when she left EE she worked as a painter/decorator and in a clothes shop.
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Old 19-10-2014, 14:19
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Steven Arnold who played Ashley Peacock in CS, and his screen wife Clair
Tracy Shaw who played Maxine in CS
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Old 19-10-2014, 16:03
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The old Ben Mitchell was in Not going Out on Friday night.
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Old 19-10-2014, 16:07
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Lacey Turner. I thought she would have done a lot. She did a few things, I remember her doing that live show while still at EE. The Our Girl one off was the only thing I saw her in after EE. Then when she returned she did Out Girl again. But otherwise I saw her on one thing after EE.
she did a series on sky, supermatural type thing, something about living in apartments in an abandoned hotel. sure it had 1/2 series.
she played a witch in a series on itv2, i thought it was a good series but they never gave it another

am sure she did being human as well but i may be wrong as I stopped watching when it changed
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Old 19-10-2014, 16:15
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she did a series on sky, supermatural type thing, something about living in apartments in an abandoned hotel. sure it had 1/2 series.
she played a witch in a series on itv2, i thought it was a good series but they never gave it another

am sure she did being human as well but i may be wrong as I stopped watching when it changed
Bedlam it was called, set in an old mental asylum, was quite good, Will Young was in the first series.
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Old 19-10-2014, 16:16
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Steven Arnold who played Ashley Peacock in CS, and his screen wife Clair
Tracy Shaw who played Maxine in CS
Are you kidding? They were limited as actors, and that's being generous. Tracy Shaw in particular was distinctly average.

Perhaps the lass who played Clair might have had a chance, but the other two were at their limit on Corrie.

All just my opinion, of course.
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Old 19-10-2014, 16:18
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she did a series on sky, supermatural type thing, something about living in apartments in an abandoned hotel. sure it had 1/2 series.
she played a witch in a series on itv2, i thought it was a good series but they never gave it another

am sure she did being human as well but i may be wrong as I stopped watching when it changed
Swiched. She was also in several episodes of Being Human. I'd say lacey actually had one of the more successful careers in the 3 years she was away.
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Old 19-10-2014, 16:32
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Lacey Turner. I thought she would have done a lot. She did a few things, I remember her doing that live show while still at EE. The Our Girl one off was the only thing I saw her in after EE. Then when she returned she did Out Girl again. But otherwise I saw her on one thing after EE.
She was someone I was surprised returned to the soap. I thought she was going to get a great career after she left. She was in Being Human, Switch, Frankenstein Live and I think I missed something else.
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Old 19-10-2014, 16:32
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Steven Arnold who played Ashley Peacock in CS, and his screen wife Clair
Tracy Shaw who played Maxine in CS
It was actully Ashley who got me thinking about this post.
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Old 19-10-2014, 16:40
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I'm surprised Martin Kemp hasn't been busier. He was fantastic as Steve Owen.
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Old 19-10-2014, 17:28
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I thought Jessie Wallace would have got more work when she left EE. She did a great Elsie Tanner in that Corrie docudrama.
She got typecast. I think Lacey Turner has done well out Of EE. A lead in a big drama-not to be sniffed at!
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Old 19-10-2014, 17:53
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I thought Jessie Wallace would have got more work when she left EE. She did a great Elsie Tanner in that Corrie docudrama.
Omg I've just searched that on youtube! SO talented!
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Old 19-10-2014, 18:18
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She was very good as the old time music hall star, (Marie Lloyd?)
I didn't see that, ta. Yes, she'd make a great Victorian lady too.
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Old 19-10-2014, 18:19
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She got typecast. I think Lacey Turner has done well out Of EE. A lead in a big drama-not to be sniffed at!
Yes, she's done well.
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Old 19-10-2014, 19:05
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Lacey did a lot of normal jobs after leaving EE since she never got to experience them when she was younger. She started filming for EE the day after she left school, so she never had a Saturday job or anything - I think she said when she left EE she worked as a painter/decorator and in a clothes shop.
Yes and the OP said bigger roles. Normal job aren't bigger roles.

she did a series on sky, supermatural type thing, something about living in apartments in an abandoned hotel. sure it had 1/2 series.
she played a witch in a series on itv2, i thought it was a good series but they never gave it another

am sure she did being human as well but i may be wrong as I stopped watching when it changed
Oh yes! I forgot the ghost program I remember recording it and watching it after work. I don't know how I forgot that. Yes Being Human too but wasn't that straight after EE? Or while she was still there?
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Old 19-10-2014, 19:45
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Billy Murray, his career died (last saw him doing injury claims adverts) after he left EE. Thought he would continue getting TV work since he was always pretty good as Johnny Allen IMO.
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Old 19-10-2014, 19:50
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Steven Arnold who played Ashley Peacock in CS, and his screen wife Clair
Tracy Shaw who played Maxine in CS
I wonder what ever happened to these three?
I was sad to see Ashley killed off I liked his character.
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Old 19-10-2014, 19:56
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I think that many former soap stars seem content to stay in UK.

This limits how much high profile work that they get to do.

If you compare this to Australian Soap Stars who have to leave Australia to get any work.

This usually leads them to go to Hollywood where many of them seem to do well.

Of course it helps that most Australian Soap Stars are very good looking. Which helps them to fit in with what Hollywood requires.

Those from the UK that go to Hollywood seem to give up too quickly. They need to stay for several years to make any headway.
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Old 19-10-2014, 20:13
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My all time favourite was David Essex in EE: pity we don't see much of him on our screens these days. He's G E O R G E O U S. !!!
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Old 19-10-2014, 20:35
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I think that many former soap stars seem content to stay in UK.

This limits how much high profile work that they get to do.

If you compare this to Australian Soap Stars who have to leave Australia to get any work.

This usually leads them to go to Hollywood where many of them seem to do well.

Of course it helps that most Australian Soap Stars are very good looking. Which helps them to fit in with what Hollywood requires.

Those from the UK that go to Hollywood seem to give up too quickly. They need to stay for several years to make any headway.
I think it does rather depend on what type of work actors want to get. If they are 'true' thespians in the respect that they want to act in many varied, good quality roles, specifically on stage then the appeal of something like the RSC or National Theatre is huge and generally recognised as about the best in the whole World. There is also a lot of very good quality 'Gritty Bafta' type work - British short Drama serials such as Brideshead Revisited, Jewel in the Crown, Edge of Darkness are still very highly though of around the world even though arguably they are nowhere near as good as they once we're and the Americans now produce some excellent work.

Many actors would rather stay in England doint credible stage work and shows like 'The Village' than grubbing around for murder suspect of the week in CSI in Hollywood once a year or sitting in a winnebago for days waiting around to shoot one scene again and again if they do manage to make it into films.
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Old 19-10-2014, 20:39
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Yes, she's done well.
Yes and I suspect that she would have kept doing well if she'd stuck at it (though some of the reviews for 'our Girl' have not been that flaterring - including for her performance) but she seems to have decided that EE was a job she loved and after having had a break she wanted to get back to it. And I actually rather admire her for that. She's not gone back grudgingly because she can't find anything else (in or out of acting) but because she has decided she was happy there and wants it back. Good on her!
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