The Nicola Stephenson Gallery - Brookside Page

<body background="pics/bkgrnd.JPG" leftmargin="0" link="#800000"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top"> <table border="0" width="79%"> <tr> <td width="43%" rowspan="2"><img src="pics/title1.jpg" WIDTH="350" HEIGHT="92"></td> <td width="57%" colspan="4"><img src="pics/brook1.GIF" alt="brook1.GIF (2442 bytes)" WIDTH="258" HEIGHT="49"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="18%"><MAP NAME="FrontPageMap"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="3, 2, 100, 32" HREF="index.html" TARGET="_top"></MAP><a href="_vti_bin/shtml.dll/v2bfm.htm/map"><img ismap usemap="#FrontPageMap" border="0" height="33" src="pics/home.gif" width="101"></a></td> <td width="12%"><MAP NAME="FrontPageMap1"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="3, 3, 100, 32" HREF="v2wfm.htm" TARGET="_top"></MAP><a href="_vti_bin/shtml.dll/v2bfm.htm/map1"><img ismap usemap="#FrontPageMap1" border="0" height="33" src="pics/welcomeb.gif" width="101"></a></td> <td width="12%"><MAP NAME="FrontPageMap2"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="3, 0, 100, 32" HREF="v2ndfm.htm" TARGET="_top"></MAP><a href="_vti_bin/shtml.dll/v2bfm.htm/map2"><img ismap usemap="#FrontPageMap2" border="0" height="33" src="pics/next.gif" width="101"></a></td> <td width="15%"><MAP NAME="FrontPageMap3"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="3, 2, 100, 32" HREF="v2bpfm.htm" TARGET="_top"></MAP><a href="_vti_bin/shtml.dll/v2bfm.htm/map3"><img ismap usemap="#FrontPageMap3" border="0" height="33" src="pics/morep.gif" width="101"></a></td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" width="80%" height="1"> <tr> <td width="32%" height="1"><font face="Arial"><font color="#800000">Nicola Stephenson was born in Oldham, Greater Manchester, on the 5th of July 1971. Starting her acting career at an early age, her first appearances included parts in several television series and in the film</font><font color="#0000FF"> </font><font color="#FF00FF">The Rainbow (1989)</font><font color="#0000FF">.</font></font></td> <td width="29%" height="1" rowspan="3" valign="bottom"><a href="pics/m225.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="pics/m225s.JPG" border="3" WIDTH="209" HEIGHT="184"></a><p><font face="Arial"><font color="#800000">Nicola played the part of Margaret Clemence, nanny to Max and Patricia Farnham, middle-class owners of Brookside's No. 7</font><font color="#0000A0">.</font></font></td> <td width="39%" height="1"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="32%" height="1" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="39%" height="1"><font face="Arial"><font color="#0000A0">I</font><font color="#800000">n 1990, Nicola joined the cast of </font><font color="#FF00FF">Brookside</font><font color="#800000">, a thrice-weekly soap opera produced by Mersey Television Ltd. </font></font><p><font color="#800000" face="Arial">Set in Liverpool, Brookside centres on the trials and tribulations of families living in the eponymous Close of six houses. </font></p> <p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="39%" height="1"></td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" width="79%"> <tr> <td width="39%"></td> <td width="30%"><font color="#800000" face="Arial">Margaret began a controversial affair with a Catholic Priest, who also happened to be her next-door-neighbour's brother.</font></td> <td width="31%"><a href="pics/m266.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="pics/m266s.JPG" border="3" WIDTH="218" HEIGHT="159"></a></td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <table border="0" width="79%"> <tr> <td width="24%"><p align="right"><font face="Arial"><font color="#800000">Perhaps even more controversially, Margaret later became involved with another of her neighbours, Beth Jordache (played by Anna Friel)</font><font color="#0000A0">.</font></font></td> <td width="26%"><font face="Arial"><img src="pics/n2.JPG" alt="n2.jpg (11968 bytes)" border="4" WIDTH="284" HEIGHT="216"></font></td> <td width="26%"><p align="left"><font color="#800000" face="Arial">Things were not destined to work out for Margaret and Beth, however.</font></td> <td width="24%"><small><font color="#800000">Click '</font><font color="#FF0000">More Pictures</font><font color="#800000">' above for the latest pictures from Nicola's early days in </font><font color="#FF00FF">Brookside</font><font color="#800000">.</font></small></td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <table border="0" width="77%"> <tr> <td width="34%"><a href="pics/m430.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="pics/m430s.JPG" alt="m430s.JPG (9512 bytes)" border="3" WIDTH="261" HEIGHT="210"></a></td> <td width="34%"><a href="pics/m377.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="pics/m377s.JPG" border="3" WIDTH="264" HEIGHT="210"></a></td> <td width="32%"><a href="pics/m444.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="pics/m444s.JPG" border="3" WIDTH="264" HEIGHT="209"></a></td> </tr> </table> <p><font color="#800000" face="Arial">Nicola left Brookside in April 1994.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial">  </font> </td></tr></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td><font face="arial, helvetica" mstheme> </font mstheme><table border="0" width="100%" height="1"> <tr> <td width="33%" height="1"><font face="arial, helvetica" mstheme><font color="#800000" face="Arial"><small><small>Version 2.1</small></small></font></font mstheme></td> <td width="33%" height="1"><font face="arial, helvetica" mstheme><font color="#800000" face="Arial"><small><small>The copyright in all pictures used in this site is acknowledged</small></small></font></font mstheme></td> <td width="34%" height="1"><font face="arial, helvetica" mstheme></font mstheme></td> </tr> </table><font face="arial, helvetica" mstheme> <p> </p> </font mstheme></td></tr></table></body>