Overview
- Gillian Wright has portrayed Jean Slater since 2003, making her a two-decade mainstay of the BBC One soap.
- Current episodes depict Jean experiencing a mental-health relapse as she fixates on who killed Anthony Trueman in The Vic on Christmas Day.
- Wright co-founded York’s Pilot Theatre in 1981, a company dedicated to powerful work for young people.
- She earned a creative arts degree in 1982, worked as an educator, debuted on TV in 1994’s Chucklevision, and later appeared in Casualty, Doctors, Holby City and a 2005 Coronation Street episode.
- Her work has earned a Mental Health Media Award (2006), Inside Soap Best Actress (2012) and a British Soap Awards Best Female Dramatic Performance (2019), and she previously survived acute pancreatitis in 2015.