Margi Clarke: 'Waterloo Road role was lovely'

Margi Clarke has opened up about her one-off guest role in Waterloo Road, which sees her take on the part of a troublesome grandmother.

The former Coronation Street star appears in tonight's episode of the BBC One drama. Clarke is introduced as feisty Bette Mansfield, the gran of students Shona and Rhona.

Viewers will soon learn that Shona and Rhona are caught in the middle of a bitter custody battle between their mum and grandmother, who soon takes matters into her own hands with a stunt that could jeopardise Karen Fisher's community café launch.

Clarke told the Liverpool Echo: "It's a lovely little storyline and the young girls I've been working with are superbly talented. What I loved about working on Waterloo Road was it reminded me of why I got into acting in the first place, my original dream.

"It was the biggest cast I've been with since Making Out and that was nearly 20 years ago. So often nowadays you go and do a job and there's a cameraman, a sound guy and that's it. This was a real ensemble with a massive cast and crew to match which was great."


Pictured: Margi Clarke in tonight's episode of Waterloo Road.

Clarke continued: "I really enjoyed working with the teenagers on set, too, because I could pass on things I've learned to them.

"I could have a gab with them between scenes and tell them things that are useful, technical things, which maybe the director doesn't have time to do because they have a hell of a lot to deal with just keeping everything moving."

Clarke played Jackie Dobbs on Coronation Street in 1998 and 1999 and she has since returned to the cobbles for a number of guest appearances.

Waterloo Road airs tonight at 7.30pm on BBC One.

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