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Galway Advertiser

March 3 2005

Galway actress lands plum role in Coronation Street
Newcastle actress to be Steve's new girl
BY SINEAD MCGOVERN Nora Jane Noone, an actress from Newcastle in Galway best known for her role in The Magdalene Sisters in 2003, has landed herself a role in Britain's favourite soap - Coronation Street. The 20-year-old actress, who relocated to London last June after completing a science degree in NUI, Galway, will feature in the soap for nine episodes at the end of the month as a love interest for the recently deserted character Steve McDonald. Ms Noone auditioned for the part of a single mother from Blackrock called Louise Hazel just over a month ago, and already she is two weeks into filming. It's her first role in a soap, but the part follows an already impressive filmography which includes a part on Miramax's Ella Enchanted, Andrew McCarthy's News For The Church, Walking at Ringsend for BBC Radio 4, a British horror film due for release this Halloween called Crawlspace, and of course the part of the `morally corrupted' Bernadette in The Magdelene Sisters. While growing up in Galway Ms Noone attended the Performance Art School, but a career in acting was not part of her masterplan. On the advice of her cousin who is an agent in London she auditioned for The Magdalene Sisters at the age of 17, and now three years later the same cousin is representing her in negotiations with film companies as big as Miramax and institutions like Coronation Street. "I've never really thought about acting as a career in the first place, nevermind whether I'd prefer film or soap acting," she told the Galway Advertiser yesterday. "I'm just taking it as it comes and enjoying it. "Doing soap work everything is much quicker - there isn't as much time for rehearsing. In a way its good that it's so quick, because there is less hanging around involved, but it also means there is less time for preparation and that can be a bit scary." Already used to a degree of public recognition from her previous film work, Ms

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Noone says that she doesn't know how acting in the Street will affect her life. "I don't think it'll affect my life too much. Irish people have a different way of approaching it, they tend to say `oh you're in that film or that programme aren't you?', but that's it. English people are quite serious about Coronation

Street though, so I guess I'll just have to wait and see." Ms Noone is scheduled to film nine episodes as Louise Hazel, and after that it is a matter of waiting to see what the writers decide to do with her character. Until then, however, she will no doubt have her hands full fighting opposition from

the bold Tracy Barlow, who also has her sights set on Steve McDonald.

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