Sheila Grant
| Sheila Grant | |||||||||
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Sue Johnston as Sheila Grant (1982)
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| Brookside character | |||||||||
| Portrayed by | Sue Johnston | ||||||||
| Duration | 1982–1990, 1997–1998 | ||||||||
| First appearance | 2 November 1982 | ||||||||
| Last appearance | 21 September 1990 | ||||||||
| Created by | Phil Redmond | ||||||||
| Spin-off appearances |
Brookside:Friday the 13th (1998) | ||||||||
| Classification | Former; regular | ||||||||
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| Husband |
Bobby Grant (until 1989) Billy Corkhill (1990–) |
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| Sons |
Barry Grant Damon Grant |
| Daughters |
Karen Grant Claire Grant |
| Grandsons | Simon Grant |
Sheila Grant (also Corkhill) is a fictional character from British soap opera, Brookside played by Sue Johnston. Sheila appeared in Brookside from the first episode in 1982 until the character's departure in 1990. Her most famous storyline was in 1986, when the character was attacked, raped and beaten by an unknown assailant. Everyone was a suspect, including family friend Matty Nolan (Tony Scoggo) and most residents of Brookside Close found themselves accused of attacking Sheila. It was later revealed that the taxi driver raped Sheila.
The Grant family consisted of Bobby Grant, Sheila Grant, Barry Grant, Karen Grant and Damon Grant. The Grant family appeared in the first episode (although Karen Grant was not shown on screen) and were the first to move into the new houses on Brookside Close. Prior to moving onto Brookside Close, the Grant family were from a run-down inner-city council estate, however through Bobby and Sheila's thrift they had managed to move to the 'middle class' Brookside Close.
Sheila was portrayed as a devout Roman Catholic, and as such her views were often to come into conflict with the socialist views of her husband.
After Bobby had spent his first months of Brookside Close fighting to save his job and 200 others at Fairbanks Engineering, Sheila is the one made redundant in 1983. In an attempt to occupy herself she joined Annabelle Collins' Ratepayers Association and forged an unlikely friendship with her. The two however disagree when Sheila nominated Roger Huntingdon as chairman instead of Annabelle and when they clash over what type of group it should be with Annabelle wanting it to be an apolitical group bringing issues such as hedges and refuse collection to the attention of the council while Sheila wanted to use it to campaign about the poor standard of schooling in the area and the lack of jobs for their children.
Later in an attempt to make a living Sheila establishes a non-registered employment agency, this has the unfortunate result of having friend Matty Nolan prosecuted for benefit fraud.
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