Happy Birthday Scottish actress Annie Wallace.Annie was brought up in Aberdeen and is a former Natio

Happy Birthday Scottish actress Annie Wallace.

Annie was brought up in Aberdeen and is a former National Youth Theatre member, she graduated from the Manchester Metropolitan School of Theatre in 2004, and has also appeared in many theatre productions. As well as being an actress, Annie writes and records music, and has two albums already released. She is also a skilled sound recordist and designer.

Annie was the consultant for the character of Coronation Street’s Hayley Cropper from 1998-2000, developing a friendship with the writers and the actress Julie Hesmondhalgh. This led to her applying to drama school and eventually becoming a professional actress in her own right appearing on stage in Manchester in productions  including Withnail and I and Wyrd Sisters.

On the 29th of October 2015, she became made history by becoming the first transgender person to play a regular transgender character in a UK soap opera when she debuted as school head teacher Sally St. Claire in Channel 4’s Hollyoaks.

Annie is one of several Scots over the years who are or have been regulars on the Channel Four soap set in Chester

Wallace has been nominated  for and on many awards over the years, most notable, The National Diversity Awards 2016 she was  Celebrity of the Year, the  Proud Scotland Awards she was awarded a gong for  Outstanding Trans Activism. Annie was also the first transgender star nominated for a Scottish Bafta. 

Away from Hollyoaks, Annie has appeared on Celebrity Mastermind, where she specialist subject was Doctor Who from 1970 to 1980.

Annie revealed she was trans during a Manchester Pride panel in 2015 which discussed the writing of LGBTQ+ characters on television.

Speaking to Lorraine earlier last year, the soap star said: “I turned 50 in May 2015 and I went, you know what, I am at this stage where I really don’t care what people think of me anymore. I just thought this is the time to come out.”

Since then she hasn’t looked back, well done Annie.