Sue Cleaver

British actress

Susan Owen (née Cleaver; born 2 September 1963) is an English actress. She is best known for portraying the role of Eileen Grimshaw in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street, a role she has played continuously since May 2000. Prior to appearing on Coronation Street, Cleaver portrayed Glenda alongside Victoria Wood in the BBC sitcom Dinnerladies from 1998 to 2000. She was covering for Denise Robertson as the agony aunt on ITV daytime programme This Morning until Robertson's death in 2016. In 2022, Cleaver was a contestant on the twenty-second series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, and came 9th.

Sue Cleaver
Born
Susan Cleaver

(1963-09-02) 2 September 1963 (age 61)
OccupationActress
Years active1993–present
Known forCoronation Street (1994, 2000–present)
Dinnerladies (1998–2000)
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (2022)
Spouses
  • James Quinn
    (m. 1993; div. 2003)
  • Brian Owen
Children1
RelativesKate Harbour (half-sister)

Personal life

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Cleaver was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, England and moved to Manchester as a teenager.

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