Louisa-May Parker (born "Louise Gregory", March 1986 in Manchester) appeared on Coronation Street in two roles: firstly in July 2021 as a social worker who interviewed Kelly Neelan when she reported her mother Laura for legacy child cruelty offences; and she returned to the programme in December 2024 as Dawn, who led a support group attended by Bethany Platt.
She graduated from the Arden School of Theatre in 2008 with a BA in Acting, furthered her studies at Boris Shchukin Theatre School in Moscow and finally attained an MA from the Drama Centre London in 2014.
Her other credits include roles in Death Comes to Pemberley and Hollyoaks, along with the 2016 film The Limehouse Golem and the shorts Ladies Who Lunch, Crossing The Line, Metronome, Support and Rapture.
On stage, she appeared in productions of The Sea, A Good Day, Rising Damp, To Walk in Your Shoes, Much Ado About Nothing, Rocket to the Moon, The Provok'd Wife, Our Town, Orestes, Three Sisters, The Academy of Melancholy, Surgeon to the Dead, The Iliad Live, Five Kinds of Silence - 'Women Redressed', If I Should Fall, To Walk in Your Shoes, Sitcom Stories and Quality Street.
