Coronation Street fans have been left floored after realising who the actress is that plays prison guard Mandy on the soap.
Over on the cobbles recently, Rob Donovan (Marc Baylis) made his shock return eight years after his last appearance. Fans will recall how Rob is behind bars for the murder of Tina McIntyre (Michelle Keegan) in 2014.
However, with Rob’s sister Carla Connor (Alison King) needing a kidney transplant, his son Bobby (Jack Carroll) decided to take matters into his own hands.
He went and visited Rob last week to reveal all – and despite refusing at first, Rob later changed his tune. In Monday’s episode (January 13) Bobby was back in prison to visit his dad – trying to persuade Rob to get tested as a donor.
The new prison guard character got plenty of people talking
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However, things took a dramatic turn when fellow prison Matty (Seamus McGoff) pulled out a knife and grabbed a prison guard, Mandy. Fans will recall Matty is in prison for stabbing, and murdering, his own brother Mason (Luca Toolan) last week.
The thug threatened to kill prison guard Mandy – and when Rob stepped in – Matty turned his attention to Bobby and warned he was going to kill him. Both Mandy and Rob did what they could to calm Matty down, and as things escalated, Rob pinned Matty against the wall, with staff rushing in to put a stop to Matty.
Fans are only just realising who she is
However, while the tense prison scenes left viewers gripped, other fans couldn’t help but notice that the actress who plays Mandy is a rather familiar face. Over on X, viewers pointed out it was none other than Rebecca Atkinson – who played Karen Maguire on Channel 4’s Shameless from 2004 to 2013.
One person proclaimed: “It’s karen maguire from shameless!” Someone else chimed in on the social media platform and said: “I was going crazy trying to remember where i knew her from!!”
The actress played Karen on Shameless
A third also wrote: “I recognised the prison officer/guard straight away. Loved her when she played Karen in Shameless.” Another viewer then penned: “I’ve been staring at this since we got the spoilers and convinced it was!”
Rebecca joined the BAFTA-award-winning cast of Shameless aged just 19 and she grew up on the raunchy series. On the show, she played a part in several big storylines – from affairs to running the iconic Jockey pub.
Coronation Street airs Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8pm on ITV1 and ITVX