Wendi Peters

Wendi Louise Peters (born 29 February 1968 in Blackburn, Lancashire) is an English actress best known for playing the infamous Cilla Battersby-Brown in the hit ITV soap opera Coronation Street. In 2006, she finished runner-up to Paul Ross in a celebrity edition of the BBC's Mastermind. Wendi has also played character 'Podger' Pam Jolly in the hit ITV series Bad Girls. She also appeared in ITV's Soapstar Superstar and on a celebrity version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? with Jamie Theakston. In December 2006 she spent a week alongside resident lexicographer Susie Dent in 'Dictionary Corner' on Countdown.

On 18 January 2007 it was confirmed that Wendi would be leaving 'Coronation Street' after 4 years of playing Cilla Battersby-Brown. In the programme, Cilla left her son Chesney to go to Las Vegas. On Children in Need she jokingly explained that she was returning from Las Vegas to give Chesney more money as he was 'down to his last tenner'. In an interview on itv.com, Wendi stated that Cilla may possibly return in the future 'if the money runs out'.

Her sister Lindsey Dawson, also an actress, is best known for playing Jez in the Channel 4 drama Shameless

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In 2007 Wendi played the wicked queen in the Christmas panto Snow White and the Seven Dwarves at the Orchard Theatre, (Dartford, Kent). In 2011 she will be performing in John Godber's April In Paris for Hull Truck Theatre which will...
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