It is unbelievable to think that 41-year-old Jane Danson has been playing Coronation Street’s Leanne Battersby on and off for nearly 23 years.
Of course, during that time Leanne has been through the usual soap opera mill – marriages, affairs… drugs, prostitution. But as Jane says, her current storyline, in which Leanne’s young son Oliver is diagnosed with an incurable condition, mitochondrial disease, ‘is the most harrowing one I’ve ever done’.
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