She played Val Pollard in Emmerdale for 11 years and was written out of the soap when a helicopter crashed into the village.
And actress Charlie Hardwick, 60, is still a TV favourite after she returned to our screens in 2019 playing Sue Carp in the Channel 4 comedy-drama Ackley Bridge.
Eagle-eyed viewers were quick to spot Charlie in her new role as director of pupil behaviour playing Sue where she starred alongside Downton Abbey actor Rob James-Collier.
The series, which first aired in 2017, is set in the fictional Yorkshire mill town of Ackley Bridge and follows the lives of pupils and staff who are affected by the merger of two schools from British and Asian communities.
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