Eve Pearce (born 17th April 1929 in Aberdeen) appeared on Coronation Street between June and July 1967 as Betty Lawson, matriarch of the family who temporarily squatted at 3 Coronation Street. Born to a poor family, she was brought up in a one-bedroomed tenement. Her mother passed away when she was seven years old, and by the age of twelve her father had remarried. They moved to London and she began her acting career in the early 1960s.