McShane. She returned to acting in 1998,
joining the soap opera Coronation Street,
playing Jackie Dobbs. She left in 1999, and
joined the cast of Channel Five soap opera
Family Affairs, staying for just under a year, as
well as guesting in an episode of the BBC’s
Casualty.
Letter to Brezhnev Actors Peter Firth, Alexandra Pigg
and Margi Clarke with Clapperboard volunteer,
writer Jon Amour
Film Festival and the Royal Festival Hall on
London’s South Bank. She was a regular
guest on Channel 4’s music show The Word,
including one occasion where she tricked
presenter Terry Christian into showing his
testicles in a hidden camera set-up.
Around this time, her partner was the
artist Jamie Reid, and she was paid an
undisclosed sum to pose nude while nine
months pregnant with their daughter Rowan.
The resulting pictures were a response to
the recent Vanity Fair spread of actress
Demi Moore, in which she was shown nude
while also nine months pregnant. She also
published her own vegetarian cookery book,
Margi Clarke’s Better than Sex Cookbook.
Her last role before taking a three-year
sabbatical, following the death of her mother
and birth of her daughter (Rowan), was in
the BBC1 serial, Soul Survivors co-starring Ian
She also had roles in two high-profile films in
2002, Revengers Tragedy, directed by Alex
Cox and 24 Hour Party People, the biopic of
the Factory/Hacienda days in Manchester
written by Liverpool award winning writer
Frank Cottrell Boyce, directed by Michael
Winterbottom and starred Steve Coogan,
which Margi participated in during her
‘Margox’ days of the 1970s. The Boys from
County Clare feature film followed in 2003, in
which she played the role of Dove.
Margi Clarke is often referred to as “The
Queen of Liverpool” by the media. This tag
was originally attributed to her by music
promoter Malcolm McLaren. In 2005, she
began her successful on-line health and
beauty range “Soul Rinse” which she runs
parallel to her acting career.
She returned to a prime-time starring role
in the second series of the British comedy
Benidorm on ITV in 2008 and reprised her
role as Jackie Dobbs in Coronation Street on
2 January 2009 and again on 22 February
2010. Also in November 2010 she finally
released her autobiography “Margi Clarke -
Now You See Me”.
Clapperboard UK is a small innovative award winning film-making youth
project now in its thirteenth year working with young people and adults across
the North West. A non-profit making organisation and film production agency
which relies totally on funding and sponsorship. (charity number 1137432).
Clapperboard UK Year 2017 partners and sponsors include: Big Lottery, PH
Holt, Mersey Care/NHS, Sefton Council, Sefton CCG’s, Sefton Carers Centre,
Sefton Creative Hubs, Autism Initiatives, Atkinsons, Lime Pictures, Liverpool
Echo, Liverpool Film Studios, Liverpool Film Office, Firestyle Magazine, Forward
Culture, EventSinc, Ma Boyle’s, Hope Street Hotel, Liverpool Hope University, Bill
Elms Associates, among others.
We are presently looking for new partners, funders and sponsors for year 2017-
18 film projects. If you are interested please contact Maureen Sinclair on;
[email protected]
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