Michelle Keegan looks unrecognisable in Corrie throwback as she turns 37
With actress Michelle Keegan turning 37 years old today, Express.co.uk has looked back at the star's career.
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Michelle Keegan, now 37, has starred in an array of high-profile programmes over the years, including the 2024 Netflix smash-hit thriller Fool Me Once which was watched by 37 million people in its first week alone.
The Manchester-born star has also featured in the shows Brassic, Ten Pound Poms, Our Girl and Ordinary Lies, to name a few.
However, she started her acting career on the cobbles playing feisty barmaid Tina McIntyre in the long-running ITV soap Coronation Street.
She portrayed Tina between 2008 and 2014, starring in almost 900 episodes before the character tragically fell to her death after being pushed from a balcony by Rob Donovan (played by Marc Baylis) who beat her with a lead pipe.
Express.co.uk has unearthed throwback pictures of a fresh-faced Michelle from her soap opera days to mark Michelle's birthday today (Monday, June 3) and reflect on her acting career.
Michelle Keegan's early years
Michelle is from humble beginnings, growing up in Stockport with her family before entering the world of acting in her early twenties.
Ahead of landing her debut role on Corrie, the brunette beauty worked at the Selfridges make-up counter before securing a job at Manchester Airport as a check-in assistant.
Her father worked as a police inspector and her mum was a school facilities manager. The pair split when Michelle was just 11 years old and they both remarried.
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Coronation Street days
Michelle, who played Tina on Coronation Street, opened up on the Graham Norton Show about her character's death.
The actress explained the soap was a "massive learning platform" for her as a professional.
She said in the same interview, which aired in January 2024: "I took a long, long time to decide to leave – it was very hard. "And then when they told me they were killing off my character and there was no going back I thought I would never work again. My security was ripped away which made me push forward and work harder.”
Michelle's plans for the future
Michelle is now married to former The Only Way is Essex star Mark Wright and they share a £3.5 million mansion together in Essex.
The pair were recently spotted in Australia amid filming for the new season of Ten Pound Poms for the BBC. They enjoyed a date night at Hunter Valley in New South Wales, which is renowned for its wonderful wines.
Michelle portrays nurse Kate Thorne in Ten Pound Poms which is about British citizens who moved Down Under after the Second World War was over.
Coronation Street airs on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays on ITV and ITVX.
