Sharon Maughan

Sharon Patricia Maughan (born 22 June 1950) is a British actress. She became internationally recognised in the 1980s from the Gold Blend couple television advertisements for Nescafé instant coffee (Taster's Choice in the United States), alongside actor Anthony Head. Her credits include She's Out of My League, MacGyver, Inspector Morse, Hannay, and Murder, She Wrote. She made it to the semi-final of Celebrity MasterChef in 2011.

Early life Sharon Maughan was born in Liverpool, to a working class family of Irish descent from the province of Connacht in the west of Ireland, and raised in Kirkby, Lancashire, St Gregory's School in Southdene, Kirkby.

Career Maughan's acting career began playing Ophelia in an Open University tour of Hamlet. In 1973, Maughan was chosen for the role of Rachel Rosing in a Granada Television serialisation of Howard Spring's novel, Shabby Tiger. She next worked with John Stride in the final series of Yorkshire Television's The Main Chance, playing the Nordic Inge Lindstrom.

Maughan then went on to star in such series as The Enigma Files, From 1987 to 1998, while running the internationally successful Gold Blend couple television advertisements for Nescafé, (Taster's Choice in the United States) alongside actor Anthony Head, and in 2012, Kidnap and Ransom, also starring Eve.

In the 2011 series of Celebrity MasterChef, an ill-prepared Maughan was shocked and delighted to make it to the semi-final.

This was followed by a film made each year from 2012 to 2014: The Babymakers,

In 1979, she met actor Trevor Eve, and they married in 1980. In 1982, Maughan gave birth to their first child, Alice, now an actor. They have two other children: Jack and George.

In 2015, she participated in a charitable event for Barnardo's, in a campaign to recruit more foster carers.