Exclusive: Former Corrie actress joins 'Doctors'

Former Coronation Street and The Bill actress Angela Lonsdale has joined the cast of BBC daytime medical drama, Doctors.

The 37-year-old actress - who played Curly Watt's (Kevin Kennedy) wife Emma Watts in the Weatherfield soap and Sun Hill's Helen Coles – will play Detective Inspector Eva Moore, a sassy and ambitious woman who is keen to make her mark in the male-dominated world of policing.

Eva, a fresh face at Letherbridge police station, is thrown in at the deep end when a potentially fatal strain of cannabis finds its way onto the streets of the fictional Midlands suburb. Luckily, police surgeon Doctor Jimmi Clay (Adrian Lewis Morgan) is on-hand to alleviate the pressures of the case - in more ways than one!

Speaking of her new role, Angela exclusively told DS: "I'm absolutely delighted to be on board with a great show like Doctors. Eva is a really fantastic character to play; a feisty northerner in leather boots, a regular Angelina Geordie! Hopefully the audience will take to her as much as I already have."

Producer Peter Bullock commented: "Angela is proving to be a real hit with cast and crew already. It’s great to have such a talented, committed and fun person around on set, traits that she is bringing in spades to her on-screen character. We think Eva is going to be an audience favourite."

Angela – wife of EastEnders' star Perry Fenwick (Billy Mitchell) – will first appear on screen on Thursday, October 18 and will remain with the show for the rest of the current series, taking her well into the new year.