Sarah White - Deborah

Sarah White delighted television audiences with her portrayal of night-club owner Bev McLoughlin in Channel 4’s Brookside. Viewers shared her laughter, tears, highs, lows, tragedies and triumphs – often in one episode! Bev was character who did nothing in small measures.

Accomplished actress Sarah joined the Liverpool soap only weeks after graduating from the Rose Bruford Drama School. She said: “We spent years studying theatre techniques and what seemed like moments studying television acting and there I was joining Brookside!”

Her exhilarating performances as mad-cap Bev prompted viewers to vote her Best Comedy Actress before Brookside ended last November.

Recently she received rave reviews for her performance in the title role of Abigail’s Party.

Sarah found herself “laughing all the way through” when she read the script for Mum’s The Word. She admits to relishing the role of professional woman turned apprentice mum Deborah.

“ What I liked about the character of Deborah was that she was not perfect. She doesn’t come to motherhood very easily – or quietly for that matter! She comes kicking and screaming. Deborah and all the other characters on stage show that there is more to becoming a mum than having perfect kids, a perfect home, perfect hair and make-up and fitting in to size ten Gucci jeans,” said Sarah.

Her daughter Ruby appears to following her famous mum’s footsteps – Sarah describes her as lively, full of fun and very energetic with a finely developed flair for the dramatic!