Actress Liz Hume Dawson appeared on Coronation Street as social worker Rachel Goddard in November 2008, returning to the programme in May and June 2013 as Linda Sims. Born in 1961 in Cwmbran, South Wales to an African father and a Yorkshire mother, her early years were spent in her father's native country of Sierra Leone, settling first in Freetown, and later in Kenema. She visited Yorkshire on and off as a child and settled permanently when she was eleven years old. From then on she attended Holmfirth High School, and retains strong links with the area.