In addition to her ongoing role in Emmerdale, she also starred in the 2000 comedy film Purely Belter, and won the best actress award at the Monte Carlo International Television Festival in 1998 for her role in the film The Scar, about a County Durham pit community in crisis.
Tracey Wilkinson is from the North East England and her acting CV includes a number of productions set in and filmed in the region, including the films Billy Elliot and Purely Belter (both 2000) and the BBC drama Our Friends in the North (1996).
After her character's departure from the show, she went on to play Kim Cotton in the short lived ITV series Close and True, which also starred Robson Green and Jamie Bell, and she made a cameo playing Bridget in the 2000 film Purely Belter.