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Denise Black
Denise Black (born 16 March 1958) is an English actress. She is best known for her roles in Coronation Street and Emmerdale.
Black was born in 1959 in Emsworth, Hampshire. After attending Portsmouth High School for Girls, she studied psychology at University of London. She also worked in a local psychiatric care home. After graduating, she travelled to Gibraltar, later moving to the West Indies, setting her sights on becoming an actress.
Her first professional role was as a cat in Miniatures at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre. She worked in several fringe theatres before gaining her Equity card in 1980. Black joined the Actors' Touring Company and performed Shakespeare around South America and in Israel, Greece and Yugoslavia.
When Black returned to the UK, she appeared with fellow-actresses Josie Lawrence and Kate McKenzie at the Newcastle Playhouse in La Pasionaria, and to further their interests in music and singing, they formed a jazz group, Denise Black & the Kray Sisters. Her friendship with Lawrence landed Black parts in Channel 4's Saturday Live and Josie. Black then joined Julian Clary on stage at London's Donmar Warehouse.
In 1988 she appeared at the Oldham Coliseum in The Threepenny Opera. Over the years, Black would feature in numerous other stage productions including Art of Success; Stop Children's Laughter (at Bolton's Octagon Theatre), and Shakespeare's King Lear and Twelfth Night (with the Cambridge Touring Company).
In 1990, Black made her television drama debut playing a prostitute in "Street Life", an episode of the BBC's Casualty. She appeared as Carrie Evans in Shoscombe Old Place, an edition of The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (1991). She appeared in many television series during the 1990s and 2000s including A Touch of Frost, Dangerfield, The Bill, Bad Girls, New Tricks, and Doc Martin.
In 1992, Black joined the soap opera Coronation Street as Denise Osbourne, remaining on the show until 1997. Her main storylines revolved around her love affair with Ken Barlow (William Roache). Black briefly returned to the role in 2007 and again in 2017.
Black was one of the main cast members of the Channel 4 TV series Queer As Folk, written by Russell T Davies. She played the role of Hazel Tyler in all 10 episodes of the show. She reprised the role of Hazel (as her ghost on Canal Street) in the 2015 follow-up series Cucumber.
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Denise Black
Denise Black (born 16 March 1958) is an English actress. She is best known for her roles in Coronation Street and Emmerdale.
Black was born in 1959 in Emsworth, Hampshire. After attending Portsmouth High School for Girls, she studied psychology at University of London. She also worked in a local psychiatric care home. After graduating, she travelled to Gibraltar, later moving to the West Indies, setting her sights on becoming an actress.
Her first professional role was as a cat in Miniatures at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre. She worked in several fringe theatres before gaining her Equity card in 1980. Black joined the Actors' Touring Company and performed Shakespeare around South America and in Israel, Greece and Yugoslavia.
When Black returned to the UK, she appeared with fellow-actresses Josie Lawrence and Kate McKenzie at the Newcastle Playhouse in La Pasionaria, and to further their interests in music and singing, they formed a jazz group, Denise Black & the Kray Sisters. Her friendship with Lawrence landed Black parts in Channel 4's Saturday Live and Josie. Black then joined Julian Clary on stage at London's Donmar Warehouse.
In 1988 she appeared at the Oldham Coliseum in The Threepenny Opera. Over the years, Black would feature in numerous other stage productions including Art of Success; Stop Children's Laughter (at Bolton's Octagon Theatre), and Shakespeare's King Lear and Twelfth Night (with the Cambridge Touring Company).
In 1990, Black made her television drama debut playing a prostitute in "Street Life", an episode of the BBC's Casualty. She appeared as Carrie Evans in Shoscombe Old Place, an edition of The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (1991). She appeared in many television series during the 1990s and 2000s including A Touch of Frost, Dangerfield, The Bill, Bad Girls, New Tricks, and Doc Martin.
In 1992, Black joined the soap opera Coronation Street as Denise Osbourne, remaining on the show until 1997. Her main storylines revolved around her love affair with Ken Barlow (William Roache). Black briefly returned to the role in 2007 and again in 2017.
Black was one of the main cast members of the Channel 4 TV series Queer As Folk, written by Russell T Davies. She played the role of Hazel Tyler in all 10 episodes of the show. She reprised the role of Hazel (as her ghost on Canal Street) in the 2015 follow-up series Cucumber.