Lorna Laidlaw

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Lorna Laidlaw
Born (1963-02-01) 1 February 1963 (age 61)
Birmingham, England [1]
OccupationActress
Years active1988–present
Television Tikkabilla
Grandpa in My Pocket
Doctors
Coronation Street
Children2

Lorna Laidlaw (born 1 February 1963) is an English actress. She has appeared on television as Mrs Tembe in the BBC medical soap opera Doctors and as Aggie Bailey in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street between 2019 and 2023. Laidlaw won the Royal Television Society award for Best Actress and Best Daytime Star at the Inside Soap Awards for her role in Doctors.

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Career

Laidlaw began her television career in 1994, with various guest appearances in series such as Blue Heaven , Playing the Field , Emmerdale and The Afternoon Play . [1] In 2009, Laidlaw began portraying the recurring role of Miss Smiley in the CBeebies series Grandpa in My Pocket . [2] [3] Laidlaw left the series in 2014. [4] Alongside these acting roles, she was also a co-presenter on the BBC children's series Tikkabilla from 2002 to 2007. [5] From 2011 to 2019, Laidlaw portrayed the role of Mrs Tembe in the BBC soap opera Doctors . She was nominated for several awards for this role; including Best Actress for three years at The British Soap Awards. [1] She also won the Royal Television Society award for Best Actress in 2012, [6] as well as the award for Best Daytime Star at the Inside Soap Awards in 2017. [7] In 2016, Laidlaw made her directorial debut when she directed three episodes of Doctors. On 8 January 2019, it was announced that she had left the role of Mrs Tembe, stating "the character was just fantastic but I think I'd done as much as I possibly could with her at that moment". [8] [9] In April 2019, it was announced that Laidlaw would be joining the cast of the ITV soap opera Coronation Street . [10] She made her first appearance as Aggie Bailey on 12 June 2019. [11] [12]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1994 Blue Heaven Ursula
2002 Playing the Field Receiver
2002–2007 Tikkabilla HerselfCo-presenter
2004 Emmerdale Gaynor HayesEpisode #3743
2006 The Afternoon Play Nurse1 episode
2009–2014 Grandpa in My Pocket Miss SmileyRecurring role
2009 Doctors Gloria DixonEpisode: "Bad Hair Day"
2011–2019 Mrs Tembe Series regular
2017Rambling OnLeonieShort film
BrokenheadStellaFilm
2019–2023 Coronation Street Aggie Bailey Series regular (257 episodes)
2020Fortune CookieMumVoice role
2021Hair TiesGranny RoseFilm

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryNominated workResultRef.
2012 RTS Midlands Awards Best Actress DoctorsWon [13]
2013Black International Film Festival and Screen AwardsWon [14]
The British Soap Awards Longlisted [15]
Inside Soap Awards Best Daytime StarNominated [16]
2014Nominated [17]
The British Soap AwardsBest ActressLonglisted [18]
2015Longlisted [19]
Best Dramatic PerformanceNominated [19]
Screen Nation Film and Television Awards Favourite Female TV StarNominated [20]
Female Performance in TVNominated [20]
2016 National Television Awards Serial Drama PerformanceLonglisted [21]
Inside Soap AwardsBest Daytime StarNominated [22]
The British Soap AwardsBest ActressLonglisted [23]
2017Longlisted [24]
Inside Soap AwardsBest Daytime StarWon [25]
RTS Midlands AwardsBest Acting Performance of the YearNominated [26]

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