The Yorkshire-born actor also starred in BBC One’s Doctors and ITV’s A Kind of Living
Coronation Street and Doctors star Anita Carey has died aged 75, her agent has confirmed.
The TV comedy actor turned to soap acting in 1978 when she was offered the role of Brenda Summers, a victim of domestic violence, on Coronation Street before returning to the cobbles 18 years later to play Joyce Smedley, the debt-laden mother of Judy Mallett (Gaynor Faye).
