Actress Lisa Howard appeared on Coronation Street as DSS Officer Miss Finch during November 1999 and returned to the role in July 2000. Her other screen credits include roles in Red Riding Hood 1983, Emmerdale, Heartbeat, Where the Heart Is and The Royal, whilst on stage she has appeared in productions of Romeo and Juliet; Macbeth; The Little Mermaid; Jason and the Argonauts; Beauty and the Beast; Grimm Tales; Pinocchio; Our Country's Good; Hamlet; Northanger Abbey; The Rise and Fall of Little Voice; Then He Kissed Me; Lady From The Sea; Flat Stanley; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Wind in the Willows and Wizard of Oz.