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4 unusual facts about Catherine Cookson


Chris Robson

Chris has also played Adonis in the 7 Sonnets of Michelangelo at the Lyric Hammersmith, a Geordie in Lost and Found at the Hackney Empire and taken the lead of John O’Brien in a national tour of Catherine Cookson’s The Fifteen Streets.

Kathryn Tickell

Debatable Lands included "Our Kate", a composition by Kathryn Tickell dedicated to Catherine Cookson.

Perdita Weeks

She is the sister of actors Honeysuckle Weeks, to whom she bears a strong resemblance, and Rollo Weeks; she co-starred with the former in Goggle Eyes (1993) and Catherine Cookson's The Rag Nymph (1997), in which she played the younger version of her sister's character.

Tom and Catherine

The album is the soundtrack to a musical which handles about the life of the novelist Catherine Cookson and her husband Tom Cookson.


Melanie Clark Pullen

Since her time in Albert Square, Clark Pullen has appeared in ITV's big-budget costume drama Lady Audley's Secret, starred in Catherine Cookson's A Dinner of Herbs and featured alongside Richard Attenborough and Jenny Agutter in the remake of the classic The Railway Children, all in 2000.


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