Career
Foreign the curler see Rebecca Atkinson (curler)
She is best known for playing Karen Maguire, Jamie Maguire"s wife, in Channel 4"s Shameless, and she has been in the show since the inception. She has also appeared in Life On Mars, Ideal and British Broadcasting Corporation Three"s new "multi-platform sitcom" Trexx and Flipside. She has had minor parts in many shows, including playing Asia in four episodes of British Broadcasting Corporation comedy series Ideal, and two episodes of New Street Law, where she played a character named Susie Hardwick.
She appeared in Heartbeat in 2002 and 2006 playing two different characters.
Shows she has had a single appearance in include Life on Mars (The Stabbing), Holby City, The Bill, Coronation Street, Doctors and The Royal. She has also appeared in Children"s Ward at a young age.
She also appeared in the film adaptation of Kevin Sampson"s Awaydays, released in 2009. Atkinson grew up on Weaste Lane in Salford and went to All Souls" Remote Control Primary School on Kintyre Avenue in Weaste, which was also the primary school of former Warrington and Salford forward Adrian Morley.
She attended the David Johnson Drama and taught dancing in Goostrey for the Glenda Ann School of Dancing before appearing on television She also taught dancing for the Glenda Ann School of Dancing in Goostry, an old farming village in Cheshire.