Elizabeth Rider
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Elizabeth Rider is an English
English people
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 actress best known for her recurring role as DI Lynette Driver in the BBC
BBC
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 soap opera, Doctors, which she has appeared in 2009 and often from 2010.

Career

Elizabeth Rider made an early television appearance in as Norah in the 1979 mini series Testament of Youth
Testament of Youth
Testament of Youth is the first installment, covering 1900–1925, in the memoir of Vera Brittain . It was published in 1933. Brittain's memoir continues with Testament of Experience, published in 1957, and encompassing the years 1925–1950...

.

In the late 1990s she landed the role of Sheila Thwaite in The Lakes
The Lakes
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.
In 2006 she landed the role of playing in Coronation Street
Coronation Street
Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...

as Ashley Peacock
Ashley Peacock
Ashley Sibelius Peacock is a fictional character from the UK television ITV soap opera, Coronation Street. Portrayed by actor Steven Arnold, the character first appeared onscreen during the episode airing on 1 February 1995.On 23 April 2010, it was announced that the character had been axed along...

's biological mother.
Also she had a ten episode role playing Jill Green EastEnders
EastEnders
EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...

.

Rider appeared in series
Television program
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 two and three of the drama
Drama
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 At Home with the Braithwaites
At Home with the Braithwaites
At Home with the Braithwaites is a British comedy-drama television series, created and written by Sally Wainwright . The storyline follows a suburban family from Leeds, whose life is turned upside down when the mother of the family wins 38 million pounds on the lottery...

 in 2001 and 2002, as Helen Braithwaite. She also voiced Atris
Atris
Atris may refer to:* a'tris, an alternative rock band* Atris, a fungus moth genus, nowadays synonymized with Infurcitinea* the descendents of Atri in Rigvedic mythology* Atri , a gotra of Rishi Attri...

 in the video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords is a role playing video game released for the Xbox and Microsoft Windows. The Xbox version of this sequel to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic was released on December 6, 2004, while the Windows version was released on February 8, 2005...

. She also appeared in five episodes in series 23 of the long-running medical drama series Casualty
Casualty (TV series)
Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...

 playing troubled mum Cathy Malone.

Rider has recently appeared in Accused
Accused
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 (2010), Marchlands
Marchlands
Marchlands is a five-part supernatural drama first shown on ITV in the United Kingdom on 3 February 2011, telling the story of three different families living in the same house at three different time periods, in 1968, 1987 and 2010. The three families are linked by the spirit of a young girl who...

 (2011), the final series of Waking the Dead
Waking the Dead
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 (2011) and can currently be seen in the Doctor Who spin off, The Sarah Jane Adventures
The Sarah Jane Adventures
The Sarah Jane Adventures is a British science fiction television series, produced by BBC Cymru Wales for CBBC, created by Russell T Davies and starring Elisabeth Sladen...

 (2011).

Personal life

Elizabeth (Lisa) Rider is originally from the village of Upton in Nottinghamshire and went to the Lilley and Stone High School for Girls in Newark between 1969 and 1976. Lisa is her real name, Elizabeth is her stage name.

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