Actress Orla Cottingham has appeared on Coronation Street playing two minor roles: Julie Howard in June 2002; and Weatherfield Gazette journalist Hannah Steele in 2008. Having completed a three-year course in Acting at the Arden School of Theatre, Manchester, her other TV and film credits include: At Home with the Braithwaites, City Central, Where the Heart Is, 999, Phoenix Nights, Real Men, The Royal, Emmerdale, Life on Mars, See No Evil: The Moors Murders and Waterloo Road.