Kirsten Cassidy

Kirsten Cassidy (born 29th January 1990 in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport) is an actress who appeared on Coronation Street in April 2010 as Lucie, a sixth-former at Daisyfield High School who was asked to show new teacher John Stape (under the alias of Colin Fishwick) around the building.

Perhaps better known for her role as Tanya Young in the popular BBC children's drama Grange Hill, she trained at the Laine Johnson theatre school in Salford and attended Cheadle Hulme School in Stockport. Cassidy played a variety of theatre roles including parts in productions of Wind in the Willows, Our Day Out, The Sound of Music and two roles in Oliver!. She moved into glamour modelling and in October 2008 appeared in the first-timers section of Zoo Magazine.