Lorna Laidlaw

Lorna Laidlaw is an English actress. She has appeared on television as Mrs Tembe in the BBC medical soap opera Doctors from 2009 to 2019 and as Aggie Bailey in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street between 2019 and 2023. Laidlaw won the Royal Television Society award for Best Actress and Best Daytime Star at the Inside Soap Awards for her role in Doctors. She was also in The Good Ship Murder

Career Laidlaw began her television career in 1994, with various guest appearances in series such as Blue Heaven, Playing the Field, Emmerdale and The Afternoon Play. Laidlaw left the series in 2014. Alongside these acting roles, she was also a co-presenter on the BBC children's series Tikkabilla from 2002 to 2007. From 2011 to 2019, Laidlaw portrayed the role of Mrs Tembe in the BBC soap opera Doctors. She was nominated for several awards for this role; including Best Actress for three years at The British Soap Awards. as well as the award for Best Daytime Star at the Inside Soap Awards in 2017. In 2016, Laidlaw made her directorial debut when she directed three episodes of Doctors. On 8 January 2019, it was announced that she had left the role of Mrs Tembe. She explained: "the character was just fantastic but I think I'd done as much as I possibly could with her at that moment". In April 2019, it was announced that Laidlaw would be joining the cast of the ITV soap opera Coronation Street. She made her first appearance as Aggie Bailey on 12 June 2019. Her character made an unannounced final appearance in 2023, with Laidlaw confirming a year later that she had quit the role.

Filmography Year Title Role Notes 1994 Blue Heaven Ursula 2002 Playing the Field Receiver 2002–2005 Tikkabilla Herself presenter 2004 Emmerdale Gaynor Hayes Episode #3743 2006 The Afternoon Play Nurse 1 episode 2009–2014 Grandpa in My Pocket Miss Smiley Recurring role 2009 Doctors Gloria Dixon Episode: "Bad Hair Day" 2011–2019 Mrs Tembe Series regular 2017 Rambling On Leonie Short film Brokenhead Stella Film 2019–2023 Coronation Street Aggie Bailey Series regular (257 episodes) 2020 Fortune Cookie Mum Voice role 2021 Hair Ties Granny Rose Film

Awards and nominations Year Award Category Nominated work Result 2012 RTS Midlands Awards Best Actress Doctors 2013 Black International Film Festival and Screen Awards The British Soap Awards Inside Soap Awards Best Daytime Star 2014 The British Soap Awards Best Actress 2015 Best Dramatic Performance Female Performance in TV Inside Soap Awards Best Daytime Star The British Soap Awards Best Actress 2017 Inside Soap Awards Best Daytime Star RTS Midlands Awards Best Acting Performance of the Year