Loveday Smith

Loveday Smith appeared on Coronation Street in two roles: firstly in November 1996 as Jakki Nye, a candidate who, along with Raquel Watts, attended an interview at Berkeley International; and she returned to the programme in April 2003 as solicitor Gillian Barker who was consulted by Peter Barlow.

Trained at the East 15 Acting School, her other credits include roles in Heartbeat and Emmerdale, along with TV movies and short films Cabaret, Madras Town, Nightmare on the Rozengracht, The Prism and At a Place, in a Time. On stage she has appeared in productions of Carmen (The Musical), Wind In the Willows, Communicating Doors, Brassed Off, The Comedy of Errors, Animal Farm, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Good Intent, James and the Giant Peach, On the Piste, Marlene, Gloomy Sunday and Yerma.