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Jennifer Moss (actress)
Jennifer Victoria Moss (10 January 1945 – 29 September 2006) was an English actress and singer from Wigan, Lancashire. She was best known for her role as Lucille Hewitt on the long-running British soap opera Coronation Street, which she starred in from 1960 to 1974.
Moss first achieved fame as a twelve-year-old, as one of the child actors on the BBC's light entertainment programme Children's Hour. It was there that she first came to the attention of actor and screenwriter Tony Warren, who would create Coronation Street. Moss moved into television in the early 1960s, and appeared in June Evening and Magnolia Street for BBC Television. At the age of 15, she joined Coronation Street in episode four as the programme's first wildchild Lucille Hewitt, a role she played until she left in 1974, after 14 years and 756 episodes.
In 1961, during the Equity strike, Moss used her freedom away from the Street to concentrate on other projects. She appeared in a West End musical, and made her debut on the big screen when she co-starred with David Hemmings, Veronica Hurst, John Pike and Joan Newell in the beat film Live It Up! (1963), singing "Please Let It Happen To Me". Her debut single, "Hobbies", produced by Joe Meek, failed to make the UK charts, and her music career fizzled out. She recorded a number of other songs, which remained unreleased until 1996, when a CD compilation, Let's Go With Joe Meek's Girls, was released.
The complete list of songs that Moss recorded with Meek is as follows:
After the Equity strike, Moss returned to Coronation Street, where she would remain as Lucille until July 1974.
After spending much of the 1970s and the early 1980s in relative obscurity, Moss finally beat her demons and slipped back into acting. She was heard on the Liverpool BBC radio soap opera The Merseysiders, and seen as an extra on Channel 4's Brookside. In 1986 she played Stephen McGann's mother in the BBC comedy series Help!, and in 1989, appeared as a waitress in the Bread Christmas special.
Moss returned to guest on television shows in the late 1990s, appearing on Tony Warren's episode of This Is Your Life, L!VE TV and Sky Soaps. In 1997, she acted opposite Patricia Routledge in an episode of Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, as a nosy neighbour. In 2000, Moss appeared on the programme After They Were Famous, and a year later was interviewed on Life After the Street.
In the 1980s, Moss successfully battled alcoholism, which was the reason underlying her being sacked from Coronation Street for bad behaviour, by then-producer Susi Hush in 1974.[citation needed] Moss stated that she drank to numb the pain she felt after the death of her father, Reg. In an interview with the Evening Times in 1979, Moss, then living in a three-apartment house in Wigan, found for her by the local Social Works Department when she was homeless, said: "My youngest daughter, Sarah, is only three years old and is mentally handicapped... while I was pregnant I was drinking all the time. I will go to my grave with this damage to my child on my conscience." Her eldest daughter, Naomi (like Sarah), was taken into care, and her baby boy had died when he was three days old, in 1976.
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Jennifer Victoria Moss (10 January 1945 – 29 September 2006) was an English actress and singer from Wigan, Lancashire. She was best known for her role as Lucille Hewitt on the long-running British soap opera Coronation Street, which she starred in from 1960 to 1974.
Moss first achieved fame as a twelve-year-old, as one of the child actors on the BBC's light entertainment programme Children's Hour. It was there that she first came to the attention of actor and screenwriter Tony Warren, who would create Coronation Street. Moss moved into television in the early 1960s, and appeared in June Evening and Magnolia Street for BBC Television. At the age of 15, she joined Coronation Street in episode four as the programme's first wildchild Lucille Hewitt, a role she played until she left in 1974, after 14 years and 756 episodes.
In 1961, during the Equity strike, Moss used her freedom away from the Street to concentrate on other projects. She appeared in a West End musical, and made her debut on the big screen when she co-starred with David Hemmings, Veronica Hurst, John Pike and Joan Newell in the beat film Live It Up! (1963), singing "Please Let It Happen To Me". Her debut single, "Hobbies", produced by Joe Meek, failed to make the UK charts, and her music career fizzled out. She recorded a number of other songs, which remained unreleased until 1996, when a CD compilation, Let's Go With Joe Meek's Girls, was released.
The complete list of songs that Moss recorded with Meek is as follows:
After the Equity strike, Moss returned to Coronation Street, where she would remain as Lucille until July 1974.
After spending much of the 1970s and the early 1980s in relative obscurity, Moss finally beat her demons and slipped back into acting. She was heard on the Liverpool BBC radio soap opera The Merseysiders, and seen as an extra on Channel 4's Brookside. In 1986 she played Stephen McGann's mother in the BBC comedy series Help!, and in 1989, appeared as a waitress in the Bread Christmas special.
Moss returned to guest on television shows in the late 1990s, appearing on Tony Warren's episode of This Is Your Life, L!VE TV and Sky Soaps. In 1997, she acted opposite Patricia Routledge in an episode of Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, as a nosy neighbour. In 2000, Moss appeared on the programme After They Were Famous, and a year later was interviewed on Life After the Street.
In the 1980s, Moss successfully battled alcoholism, which was the reason underlying her being sacked from Coronation Street for bad behaviour, by then-producer Susi Hush in 1974.[citation needed] Moss stated that she drank to numb the pain she felt after the death of her father, Reg. In an interview with the Evening Times in 1979, Moss, then living in a three-apartment house in Wigan, found for her by the local Social Works Department when she was homeless, said: "My youngest daughter, Sarah, is only three years old and is mentally handicapped... while I was pregnant I was drinking all the time. I will go to my grave with this damage to my child on my conscience." Her eldest daughter, Naomi (like Sarah), was taken into care, and her baby boy had died when he was three days old, in 1976.