Suranne Jones

Standing 5'10" with a slim build and natural 36D bust, Suranne Jones is a British actress and producer from Chadderton, Greater Manchester, England. She rose to fame playing Karen McDonald on ITV1's Coronation Street, a role she held for four years before leaving in 2004. Before that, she appeared in the soap in a small 1997 role as Mandy Phillips, worked in theatre, starred in a short film, and guest-starred in series like City Central. She also featured in a Maltesers commercial that aired frequently during her early Coronation Street years.

Since leaving the cobbles, Jones has taken on diverse work. In 2005 she starred in the ITV detective drama Vincent and made her West End debut in A Few Good Men. She played Snow White in a Manchester pantomime, appeared in Kay Mellor's Strictly Confidential as a bisexual sex therapist, and starred in the black comedy Dead Clever. She has also toured in Terms of Endearment, acted in BBC Radio 4 plays, and featured in the musical The Lost Christmas. In 2009, she played Ruth Slater in the ITV drama Unforgiven, a woman released from prison after 15 years for killing two policemen.

Jones attended the Oldham Theatre Workshop, the same drama club as Antony Cotton. She won a best actress award at the British Soap Awards before departing Coronation Street. Her career spans three decades, from 1996 to the present, and she continues to work as both an actress and a producer.