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Elizabeth "Liz" Dawn MBE (born 8 November 1939) is an English actress, best known for her role as Vera Duckworth in the long-running British soap opera, ''Coronation Street''. First starting on the serial in 1974, she had more of a recurring role as a factory worker until her husband, Jack, (played by William Tarmey) first appeared in 1979 and later for a more concrete role in 1983. For her role as Vera, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2008 British Soap Awards. She was made an MBE in the 2000 Queens Birthday Honours. ==Career== Born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, Dawn started her show business career as a nightclub singer. By the late 1960s Dawn had ventured into acting, often taking small parts in television programmes as well as advertisements. During the 1970s, she appeared in a variety of programmes including ''All Creatures Great and Small'' and Colin Welland's play ''Leeds United''. She was also one of the alien voices in the Cadbury's Smash advertisements in the 1970s. In January 1990, Dawn was featured on ''This is Your Life''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Big Red Book )〕 Dawn published her autobiography ''Vera Duckworth – My Story'' in 1993.〔(Profile at What's on TV ) URL accessed 2007-11-12〕 In 2000, Dawn was chosen as the Lady Mayoress of Leeds〔(BBC Profile ) URL accessed:2007-11-12〕 and was awarded an MBE in October of that year for her services to charity, having helped raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for hospitals in the Manchester and Leeds areas.〔(BBC News - Street star receives MBE ). URL accessed 2007-05-25.〕 On 12 October 2010, Dawn appeared in a wheelchair at the naming ceremony of the new Cunard cruise ship, MS Queen Elizabeth in Southampton.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Queen Elizabeth naming 'a magic moment' (From This is Hampshire) )〕 She appeared at the 2011 British Soap Awards giving the Lifetime Achievement Award to former co-star, Bill Tarmey. On 12 June 2014, Dawn was the subject of one of five celebrity specials of ''The Jeremy Kyle Show''. She appeared on the show, talking about her career and health. On 11 November 2015, it was announced that Dawn was to briefly come out of retirement and make a guest appearance in ''Emmerdale'' over Christmas 2015 as Mrs Winterbotton. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elizabeth Dawn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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