Diana Quiseekay had two separate roles on Coronation Street: Janice in September 1967; and she returned to the programme in October 1975 as Sophie Edwards, a barmaid at the Gatsby Club. Her other credits include Z Cars and Doctor In Charge. Born and brought up in Liverpool, she left Merseyside at the age of sixteen to join an American stage company as a dancer and sang around a large part of the United States and various other regions of the world. In 1965 she appeared in the West End musical Maggie May and was later a resident singer at London's Talk of the Town.