Jennie McAlpine
British actress
Jennie Elizabeth McAlpine (born 12 February 1984) is an English television actress, comedian and businesswoman. She is known for her roles as Michelle Morley in Emmerdale and Fiz Brown in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street. She also took part in the seventeenth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in 2017, where she finished in fourth place.
Early life
McAlpine was born and grew up in Bury. She is of Scottish and Irish descent, with a grandfather from County Kerry and a grandmother from County Sligo. As a young girl, she used to put on shows on the patio for the neighbours, charging them 50 pence apiece. She did song and dance routines, copying groups like Bananarama.
Her father, Thomas McAlpine, worked in mental health and was awarded the OBE for services to mental healthcare; he died in March 2017. With his encouragement, she took up amateur dramatics at the age of eight, when father and daughter appeared together in a pantomime by the Bury Parish Players.
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