Joan Carol Williams appeared on Coronation Street in two roles: firstly in May 1991 as a Job Centre clerk who attended to an out-of-work Deirdre Barlow; and she returned to the programme in December 1992 as Sharron, who with her friend Tina, met Des Barnes and Curly Watts at a Blackpool nightclub.
She graduated from the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in 1982.
Her only other known credit was for a 1994 episode of A Pinch of Snuff for Yorkshire Television.
On stage, she appeared in a UK touring production of Mother Poem.
