Jennifer Moss, has died aged 61, she played the part of the rebellious teenager Lucille Hewitt in Coronation Street from its third episode until she left the programme in 1974 when her drinking became a problem; her life thereafter encompassed incidents as troubled, tragic and dramatic as any in the soap.
Jennifer Moss was born on January 10 1945 at Wigan, Lancashire. Her father Reg was the director of a mill and her mother Dora a drama teacher ambitious for her child to go on the stage. Young Jennifer went to Wigan High School for Girls, at which she developed an ambition to become a barrister, but by the time she was 12, her mother had pushed her into radio work for the Light Programme. On Children's Hour she first encountered Tony Warren, who was later to create Coronation Street.
By the time she was 16 Jennifer had moved into television, appearing in June Evening and Magnolia Street for the BBC before moving to Grampian to join Coronation Street. Her character – for many years the only child in the street – was the daughter of Harry Hewitt, a widower who later married the barmaid Concepta Riley.
