CORONATION Street fans have seen Tracy Barlow grow from a babe in arms to the scheming murderous grown-up she is now. But she hasn’t always looked the same.
In fact, Deirdre’s wayward daughter has been played by no less than FOUR different actresses since 1977 but the most memorable - before the current actress Kate Ford took over - was Dawn Acton.
The child actress, from Ashton-Under-Lyne, joined the soap in 1988 when she was just 11 years old. She saw Tracy through her troubled teen years – and they were pretty turbulent – before leaving the soap in 1999.
Her near-fatal ecstasy overdose led to Deirdre’s toyboy hubby Samir donating a – how you say? – kidney. But after meeting Robert Preston, Tracy wed and left Weatherfield for London and Dawn was never seen again..
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