Education
She studied at the Manchester Metropolitan School of Theatre and her first television appearance was a small part in an episode of A Touch of Frost.
She studied at the Manchester Metropolitan School of Theatre and her first television appearance was a small part in an episode of A Touch of Frost.
She is best known for playing Eileen Grimshaw on the long-running Independent Television soap opera Coronation Street. She also played Glenda, the bread delivery person in Victoria Wood"s British Broadcasting Corporation comedy Dinnerladies, which ran for two series from 1998-2000. She is currently covering for Denise Robertson as the agony aunt on Independent Television daytime programme This Morning.
She went on to star in the acclaimed drama series Band of Gold before landing a role in the film Girls" Night alongside Julie Walters and Brenda Blethyn.
In the late 1990s she had recurring roles as Standish in The Cops, and as Glenda in the Victoria Wood penned sitcom Dinnerladies. She also had a small part in the Johnny Depp and Cate Blanchett film The Manitoba Who Cried.
lieutenant was after filming that role in 2000 that she was cast as Eileen Grimshaw on Coronation Street. Cleaver is patron of the charity When You Wish Upon a Star.