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Suranne Jones: 'My characters are really strong, miserable or tortured'

16 November 2012 4:01 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

She exchanged Corrie's cobbles for the cop shop in Scott & Bailey but has no plans to 'be herself' on TV anytime soon

You wouldn't mess with Suranne Jones. Not on screen, anyway. Toughness is her trademark. Her DC Rachel Bailey, in Scott & Bailey, isn't fazed by the contents of a dead body's anal swab, a dodgy ex who tries to have her killed, or even her permanent hangover. She thumped Tracy Barlow when she was Karen McDonald, Corrie's hoop-earringed harridan, and as herbal tea-drinking lesbian caricature Anne Oldman in spoof A Touch Of Cloth, she took it to its piss-taking conclusion, delivering ridiculous one-liners with a deadpan face.

We meet the morning after a police ball, where she had been presenting officers with awards for an extraordinary undercover counter-terrorism operation. "They asked me which force I was from and I said, 'Er, that made-up one off the telly, »

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