Helen Baxendale played the lead character Rachel in Cold Feet.
Her first job was understudying Toyah Wilcox in Amadeus and then she joined the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow.
In 2000, Helen Baxendale won a TRIC award for drama TV performer of the year, after also playing Cordelia Gray in An Unsuitable Job for a Woman as well as her role in Cold Feet.
Baxendale crossed the Atlantic to play Emily in Friends.
Since then, she has often performed in the theatre.
