Lynda Rooke has played three roles on Coronation Street: * Ingram's Textiles machinist Laura Collins between August and December 1990 * Rovers Return manager applicant Ruth Horner in December 2000 * Soup kitchen organiser Eleanor Jacobs in December 2013 and January 2014. She has also appeared in Z cars, Angels, Brookside, Grange Hill, Pat and Margaret, The Bill, Foyle's War, Silent Witness, Endeavour and several roles in both Doctors and Casualty.