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29/03/2017

BBC Radio Scotland - Stark Talk, Annie Wallace

Edi Stark talks to Hollyoaks star Annie Wallace.

Edi Stark talks to Hollyoaks star Annie Wallace, the first transgender actress to play a regular transgender role in a TV soap.

Hollyoaks star, Annie Wallace, the first transgender actress to play a regular transgender role in a TV soap, tells Edi Stark about growing up in Aberdeen where she experienced horrific bullying at school. She transitioned in the late eighties and felt compelled to live a secret life but that changed when a new character appeared on Coronation Street. In 1998, she wrote to the actress Julie Hesmondhalgh who played Hayley, the first Trans character in a soap and began a friendship which has changed her life and career.

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