Carolyn Pickles (born 8th February 1952 in Wakefield) appeared on Coronation Street in two roles: firstly in September 1975 as Michelle Turnbull. The girlfriend of Eddie Yeats's jailbird friend, he "looked after" her for a few hours and the pair gatecrashed Ray and Deirdre Langton's flat-warming party; and she returned to the programme in May 1998 as Moira Wood, mother of Greg Kelly.
Her other television credits include roles in Bread or Blood, We'll Meet Again, Mr. Right, Miracles Take Longer, Bluebell, Through the Dragon's Eye, May to December, Chancer, The Bill, Casualty, The Tales of Para Handy, Castles, Original Sin, All Quiet on the Preston Front, Where the Heart Is, Holby City, Big Meg, Little Meg, Doctors, Midsomer Murders, Emmerdale, Prime Suspect: The Final Act, Land Girls, Broadchurch, Ambiguous Loss, EastEnders, New Blood, MotherFatherSon and Sister Boniface Murders.
Film roles include Tess, Champions, Waiting for Alan, Ali G Indahouse, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Bonobo, The Spy Who Dumped Me and Christmas on Mistletoe Farm.
On stage, she appeared in productions of Bartholomew Fair, Jungle Music, The Dillen, Body Cell, The Winter's Tale, Fram, Pride and Prejudice and Emilia.
