Tina Malone

Christina "Tina" Malone (born 30 January 1963) is an English actress, writer, director and producer, who is probably best known for playing the brash, belligerent, foul-mouthed Mimi Maguire in Shameless. She also played the role of Mo McGee on Brookside and a nurse called Bobbie on Victoria Wood's dinnerladies. She made a reality appearance in Celebrity Big Brother 6 in January 2009 and a guest appearance on The Chase Celebrity Special in 2013.

Early life

Born to parents Olwyn and Frank on 30 January 1963 in Toxteth, Liverpool, she attended Liverpool Institute High School for Girls and Childwall College.

Personal life

She runs her own acting school in Manchester. The school produces plays in local Liverpool theatres such as the Everyman Theatre. The drama school is known as To Be Frank Productions (named after her late father, Frank Malone). She also used to run a similar agency with Dean Sullivan called DSTM. She has stated that she has obsessive compulsive disorder and bipolar disorder. In August 2009, Malone appeared on a BBC Three programme called Britain's Most Embarrassing Parents, with her daughter Dannielle (born 1982). From 8–11 September 2009, she directed and starred in Kerry Williams's play "MeeT ThE DeAN's" at the Unity Theatre, Liverpool, She currently resides in Manchester with her husband Paul Chase, whom she married on 29 August 2010 and is 19 years younger, Malone appeared on Celebrity Four Weddings in December 2010, along with TV personality Debbie McGee, Big Brother 3 contestant Spencer Smith and glamour model Linsey Dawn McKenzie, Malone later went on to win Four Weddings, She also appeared in Scousers in St Helens on 26 October 2010 alongside Margi Clarke, Billy Murray and Various others.