Simon Lenagan appeared on Coronation Street between November and December 2002 as Alex Jordan, a painter and decorator who had a short-term affair with Sally Webster. Since leaving drama school he has run his own theatre company, produced a West End play and set up a telemarketing enterprise for out of work actors. He is a director of the educational software company InnovEd, joint-founder of Just Voices voice-over agency and the Youth & Community Director at Oxford United Football Club.