Jennifer Victoria Moss (10 January 1945 â€" 5 October 2006) was an
English actress and singer born in Wigan, Lancashire. She was best
known for her role as Lucille Hewitt on the long-running soap opera,
Coronation Street, which she played from 1960â€"74.Moss first achieved
fame as a twelve-year-old as one of the child actors on the BBC's
light entertainment programme Children's Hour. It was there that she
first came to the attention of actor Tony Warren, who would later
create Coronation Street. Moss moved into television in the early
1960s, and appeared in June Evening and Magnolia Street for BBC
Television. At the age of 15, she joined Coronation Street in episode
four as the programme's first wildchild Lucille Hewitt, a role she
played until she left in 1974 after 14 years and 756 episodes.In 1961,
during the Equity strike, Moss used her freedom away from the Street
to concentrate on other projects. She appeared in a West End musical,
and made her debut on the big screen when she co-starred with David
Hemmings, Veronica Hurst, John Pike and Joan Newell in the beat film
Live It Up! (1963), singing Please Let It Happen To Me. Her debut
single Hobbies, produced by Joe Meek failed to make the UK top 40 and
her music career fizzled. She recorded a number of other songs which
remained unreleased until 1996, when a CD compilation album Let's Go
With Joe Meek's Girls was released.
English actress and singer born in Wigan, Lancashire. She was best
known for her role as Lucille Hewitt on the long-running soap opera,
Coronation Street, which she played from 1960â€"74.Moss first achieved
fame as a twelve-year-old as one of the child actors on the BBC's
light entertainment programme Children's Hour. It was there that she
first came to the attention of actor Tony Warren, who would later
create Coronation Street. Moss moved into television in the early
1960s, and appeared in June Evening and Magnolia Street for BBC
Television. At the age of 15, she joined Coronation Street in episode
four as the programme's first wildchild Lucille Hewitt, a role she
played until she left in 1974 after 14 years and 756 episodes.In 1961,
during the Equity strike, Moss used her freedom away from the Street
to concentrate on other projects. She appeared in a West End musical,
and made her debut on the big screen when she co-starred with David
Hemmings, Veronica Hurst, John Pike and Joan Newell in the beat film
Live It Up! (1963), singing Please Let It Happen To Me. Her debut
single Hobbies, produced by Joe Meek failed to make the UK top 40 and
her music career fizzled. She recorded a number of other songs which
remained unreleased until 1996, when a CD compilation album Let's Go
With Joe Meek's Girls was released.
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