Coronation Street star Sue Cleaver, who was adopted at 10 days old, has revealed how she found her birth mum after a link to her co-star was discovered. Cleaver, who is known for playing cab switchboard operator Eileen Grimshaw on Corrie, has explained in her new book, A Work in Progress, how the encounter came about. When she was 23 years old, in 1986, Sue took on a role in the play Oedipus which was performed at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester.
Her co-star Michael N Harbour went white when he saw her and now, it all makes sense. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bloomsbury Publishing (@bloomsburypublishing) How Coronation Street’s Sue Cleaver found her birth mum Harbour said to the stage manager: “Oh my God, she’s the spitting image of my wife when I met her”, reports The Mirror . Harbour was 41 at the time and despite the age gap, he and Cleaver became friends – in her book she said: “I was completely obsessed with him and fascinated by his stories about his family, I wasn’t sure why.
” One Sunday, the cast enjoyed a lunch party together where Michael started making fun of Sue’s northern accent. He then asked her where she was born and for her date of birth. She explained that she wasn’t born in the north and that actually she was born in Barnet, Greater London and confirmed she was born on September 2, 1963.
On finding this out, Michael made a phone call to his wife Lesley immediately, announcing: “I’ve found her.” View this po.