Coronation Street legend Anne Kirkbride left £103,000 in last will
SHE made a fortune playing Deirdre Barlow for 42 years on the Coronation Street set, but the late Anne Kirkbride left a personal estate of £103,000.
Coronation Street star Anne Kirkbride who died of cancer earlier this year
The soap matriarch died in January at the age of 60 after she lost her secret battle with cancer.
She left her entire estate of £103,000 to her actor husband David Beckett, whom she was married to for 22 years.
The couple met when he starred as her on-screen boyfriend Dave on Britain's longest-running soap.
Probate records reveal that the Corrie actress left a gross personal estate of £186,651 in the UK which was reduced to a net figure of £103,942 after liabilities, such as loans and debts, were subtracted.
The actress on the set of Coronation Street during a visit by the Duchess of Cornwall
Not factored in to these sums are any joint assets with her husband, and any properties that they owned together as "joint tenants" would have been passed on to him without featuring in her estate.
The will was written in April 2011, four years before her death, and a separate will dating back to 2003 covered assets she held in Spain.
She made her first appearance on the cobbles in November 1972, aged just 18, in what was scripted to be a one-off appearance as Deirdre Hunt.
Anne left her personal estate to husband David Beckett
Anne had been a heavy smoker for all of her life, and she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma on the same day as her mother Enid's funeral in 1993.
After bouts of chemotherapy she was given the all clear and returned to her iconic role within a year, but she also battled with "unbearable" depression off-screen.
Last September, she took a leave of absence from Weatherfield following a breast cancer diagnosis which she kept a secret.
She had been planning to reprise her role but she died after the cancer reportedly spread to her brain.
William Roache, Anne Kirkbride and Johnny Briggs at the Pye TV awards they won in 1983