Wendi Peters
Wendi is best known for her role as Cilla Battersby Brown in Coronation Street and "Podger" Pam Jolly in Bad Girls. Other television includes Arrest, Out of the Blue and film credits include Gyppo and Emily in In Love and War.
She has recently finished a tour around Ireland of the brand new one woman play Mrs Wippy, written by the successful Irish writer Cecelia Ahern - who amongst various projects wrote the movie Ps. I Love You and is currently performing on the UK tour of The Vagina Monologues, before embarking on a brand new tour of Grumpy Old Women.
Other theatre credits include tours of Hello, Dolly! and Guys and Dolls, Cindy in Sugar, Miss Electra in Gypsy (West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds), Jan in Grease (Olympia Theatre, Dublin), Sue in A Slice of Saturday Night (Playhouse, Derby), Sally in The Scarlet Pimpernel, Red Riding Hood in Into the Woods (Wolsey, Ipswich), Mrs Brown in Me and My Girl, Louise in Murder on the Nile, Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, Poppy in Noises Off, Kate in Bedroom Farce (Palace, Westcliff) and Hobby in Teachers (Hull Truck). She was part of the cast of Children Will Listen, which celebrated Stephen Sondheim's 75th birthday (Theatre Royal Drury Lane) and Sondheim's Follies in Concert (London Palladium).