Eileen Grimshaw is one of many strong women on the Coronation Street cobbles. The character is known for being (very) unlucky in love and having a constant rivalry with soap matriarch Gail Platt.
Eileen has been in Weatherfield for 22 years. READ MORE: ITV Coronation Street's girl trio all smiles as they head on cast night out in Manchester Sue Cleaver made her debut in the role in May 2000, with her first scenes alongside Emmerdale star Chris Bisson, who played Vikram Desai.
However, it wasn’t her first role in the ITV soap as five years before she had played a hospital nurse who was present when Daniel Osbourne was born.
Mum-of-two and Street Cars switchboard operator Eileen is probably best known for her string of relationships, including Dennis Stringer, Pat Stanaway, Jesse Chadwick, Michael Rodwell, and most notably her marriage to killer Pat Phelan.
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