Coronation Street's Sue Cleaver on her unhappy teenage years as she quits soap after 25 years
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Coronation Street star Sue Cleaver has a very varied home life. The star - who announced this week that after 25 years playing straight-talking matriarch Eileen Grimshaw her time on the cobbles is up - has two families; her adoptive family and her biological one.
Just days after ringing in the New Year, she admitted it's time for her to step back from the cobbles. Over the past 25 years, Sue's character has been at the centre of some of the biggest storylines, including her son, Todd, fathering a child in his teens with Sarah Louise Platt.
. "I've had 25 privileged years of working on Coronation Street," Sue, 61, said in a statement shared with the media this week. She went on say "The door is still firmly open but as I reached my 60th year, I decided it was time to embrace change, look for new adventures and live fearlessly.".
Appearing on Good Morning Britain last year, Sue revealed the shocking way she met her biological mum. Sue was at drama school and the Royal Exchange in Manchester were auditioning for parts in Oedipus. She revealed: 'I met an actor called Michael Harper who met me and said "She's the double of my wife".
'To cut a long story short we were at a party and he asked about my accent and I said "Well I am not from the North I was born in Barnet.". "And the next thing I know he had left the party and gone to a phone box and he called her and said 'I've found her'. He was married to my birth mother.'.
