Coronation Street star Anita Carey passes away at 75; a look at the British TV actor’s career

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Anita Carey, renowned for her role in Coronation Street as well as Doctors, has passed away. She was 75. Her death was confirmed by her agent, Katie Threlfall. The accomplished actor was a cancer survivor, having been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010. Anita Carey’s date of death has not been declared yet, but The Guardian reports she died on July 19, 2023.

Anita Carey was known for her comedic roles like Susan Chambers in ‘Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?’ in 1973. That was the year when she met fellow actor Mark Wing-Davey, who would be her husband when they got married in 2002. Anita met Mark while playing Miss Heasman in the touring theatre show Butley. In 1974, the pair appeared in a stage production of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde at the Crucible Theatre. Anita Carey was later seen in the West End production of Hobson's Choice.

In 1978, she was offered a role in Coronation Street as Brenda Summers, who is a victim of domestic violence. She acted in four episodes. In 1996, she returned to the show as Joyce Smedley. Her character exited in a «cast cull» by the then-new producer Brian Park. In 1990, Carey worked in the sitcom A Kind of Living. She played Vivien March in BBC One's Doctors from 2007-09. She appeared in The Spoils of War as Martha Blaze. In 1986, Anita Carey starred as Joyce Gould in ITV's adaptation of Jeffrey Archer's novel First Among Equals. Carey was a part of the sketch show One-Upmanship, which was based on Stephen Potter's spoof self-help books. She also essayed one of the on-screen children of actor Carmel McSharry in the comedy-drama Beryl's Lot. In 2008, Anita Carey and her husband Mark Wing-Davey moved to New York after he was