Jennifer Moss

Jennifer Victoria Moss (10 January 1945 – 29 September 2006) was an English actress and singer from Wigan, Lancashire. She was best known for her role as Lucille Hewitt on the long-running British soap opera Coronation Street, which she starred in from 1960 to 1974.

Moss returned to guest on television shows in the late 1990s, appearing on Tony Warren's episode of This Is Your Life, L!VE TV and Sky Soaps. In 1997, she acted opposite Patricia Routledge in an episode of Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, as a nosy neighbour. In 2000, Moss appeared on the programme After They Were Famous, and a year later was interviewed on Life After the Street.

In August 1980, it was reported that Moss and her then fourth husband had broken into a local Labour club in a search for drink. She left court and was put on probation for two years.

Moss joined Alcoholics Anonymous and decided to settle in Liverpool in 1982, on the basis that the city had 28 Alcoholics Anonymous meetings weekly. She lived in a house owned by the Merseyside Housing Improvement Trust, and began to sort her life out. Before reviving her acting career, she took on various jobs as a waitress and a taxi driver, but there were also court appearances for breaking and entering and shoplifting, charges of which she was cleared.

She married five times. She wed her first husband, the son of a millionaire, in 1968, but they divorced the following year, after Moss gave birth to their daughter. She then married a Leeds motor dealer, Adrian Glick, who was violent towards her. Her third marriage was to a man ten years her junior and an alcoholic, while her fourth marriage, to a Liberal Party worker eighteen years younger than her, also dissolved quickly. In 1989, Moss wed her fifth husband, computer software expert and Cambridge graduate Stephen Ramsden, and was happily married to him until her death.

Towards the end of her life, she reconciled with her daughter Naomi, who later married and made Moss a grandmother. She was also often reunited with former and current Coronation Street stars, attending launches and anniversary parties. She and Ramsden ran an internet stamp collecting business.

Death Moss died in September 2006 at her home in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Her wish was to be buried next to her father, Reg, whose gravestone had already borne her name before she died. She had been estranged from her mother, Dora.