Lindsey Coulson
Lindsey Coulson (born 1960) is an English actress, best known for her role as Carol Jackson in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. For this role, she won the 2000 British Soap Award for Best Dramatic Performance. She starred in the 2004 TV film Disappeared opposite Ray Winstone and the 2005 TV film The Stepfather opposite Philip Glenister. Her other TV credits include Clocking Off (2001) Murder Investigation Team (2003-2005) and The Street (2006).
Career
Coulson was born in London. She was a hairdresser for six years, before studying acting at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts graduating in 1982. She went on to appear in such works as an experimental production of Hamlet, in which she played a 33-weeks pregnant Ophelia.
Her TV debut was in A Bear Behind (1989), a children's series in which she and a puppet bear called Boz adventured round the country in their horse-drawn caravan and lived on a houseboat.
Her big television break came in 1993, when she became a household name after being cast in the part of Carol, the feisty battleaxe of the Jackson family, in the successful BBC serial drama EastEnders. She remained in the role for four years, but a desire to try her hand at other roles prompted her to quit the role in 1997. She returned to the show for six months in 1999 and won the 2000 British Soap Award for Best Dramatic Performance.
