Life and career
Liz Stooke was born in Kent, England in the 1950s. [1] Her father worked in the banking business and thus she moved around every two years. [1] After a "convent education", Stooke enrolled in a teacher training college in Devon, but she left after a year after falling "hopelessly in love". [1] She then moved to Glossop with her partner, where she began taking an interest in amateur theatre; she then decided to not get married and completed her teaching training, and she subsequently did a three-year course in Manchester and specialised in teaching disabled children. [1] She continued having an interest in acting and got a job as a receptionist at the London Drama School; she enjoyed the job but got "fed up" of directors asking students to take part in plays and films as she thought "why not me?" [1] She then got a job in the Brian Way Children's Theatre and joined the Pitlochry Festival Theatre, which Stooke called "hard work" as they rehearsed three shows in a fortnight and went on a 12-week tour in a transit van in the Highlands and Islands; Stooke called the experience "worthwhile" and was thankful that the people there got on. [1]
Stooke wanted to do theatre work in education and worked in Coventry for 18 months before working in the M6 Theatre Company in Rochdale for four years. [1] She then worked in the Avon Touring Company, where she met director Clare Grove. [1] As part of the company, she was one of the actors in the production of Horror Story at the Albany Centre in Bristol in 1984. [2] Ian Onions from the Evening Post wrote that Stooke and three other actors "showed clever dexterity in switching roles so quickly and playing with conviction, although they were a little overexuberant at times". [2] She then had a role in the stage production of Present Laughter at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, which Stooke considered different from the work she had previously done. [1] In 1987, Stooke finished her stint playing one of the three Molls in the stage production of Moll Flanders . [1] Stooke had received a phone call from Grove asking her to take part in the production. [1] Kevin Lloyd from the Derby Express believed that Stooke's performances were "excellent" in the "highly successful productions". [1] Stooke subsequently decided to stay in Derby after the conclusion of the production as she was asked to play Helena in a stage production of A Midsummer Night's Dream by a director. [1] Stooke "enjoyed every minute of the rehearsal period" and believed it was a "great play". [1]
In 1987, Stooke played a Customs officer in the television crime drama Floodtide . [3] In 1988, she played Joan in Derby Playhouse's stage production of Time and the Conways , which ran until 25 June 1988. [4] That same year, also had a role as the boss' daughter in the rehearsed reading of Peter Gibbs' Selling the Sizzle at the Derby Playhouse. [5] She then played Margie Bellenger in A Day in Summer, a 1989 television movie based on the novel of the same name by J. L. Carr. [6] Stooke also played a prosecuting counsel in an episode of the soap opera Brookside , which was originally broadcast on 29 March 1989. [7] In 1990, Stooke guest starred in the second episode of the fifth series of the British sitcom Watching . [8] The following year, she was part of the cast of The Government Inspector at the Greenwich Theatre; Charles Spencer from The Daily Telegraph opined that Stooke was one of the cast members to provide "excellent comic value". [9] In 1995, Stooke joined the original cast of the new Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks as Angela Cunningham, part of the Cunningham family. [10] She remained in the role until 1999, and made guest appearance in 2004 and 2006. [10] Stooke made another return to the soap in 2008 for the funeral of Angela's son, Max Cunningham (Matt Littler). [11] [12] In 1997, Stooke presented The Duke of Edinburgh's Award to several young people in a church in Bury. [13]
Stooke had a guest role in the fifth episode of the 23rd series of Last of the Summer Wine , "Beware Of The Hot Dog", which initially aired on 3 February 2002. [14] [8] In 2003, Stooke played Lila Griffith in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale . [10] She has also appeared in the television series First Among Equals , Nice Guy Eddie , Children's Ward , Watching , Heartbeat and Casualty , as well as the soap opera Coronation Street . [10] [15] Additionally, she had a role in the 1988 film The Fruit Machine . [15]
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