New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Sally’s silver lining ‘CORO FOUND ME LOVE’

Other actors might take offence, but Sally Carman says she really doesn’t mind frequently being cast as dodgy, down-at-heel characters.

For eight years, she played heroin user Kelly Maguire on British drama series Shameless, but now she’s best known as recovering addict and ex-jailbird Abi Franklin on Coronation Street.

She can laugh about the fact that casting directors see her as someone who has drawn the short straw in life.

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