| Hollywood Scanner proudly presents Tracy Shaw and Tyra Banks |
Shaw was born into the hotel and pub trade, at the time when her parents ran the Talbot Hotel in Belper, Derbyshire. She attended St. Benedict's School in Derbyshire, and went to the Arden School of Theatre in Manchester in 1990, where she got a degree in theatre studies.
Her best known work at present is hairdresser Maxine Peacock in the long-running, popular British soap opera Coronation Street which is set and filmed in Manchester, England.However,Shaw came into conflict with the show's bosses after they tried to cut her pay by 20,000 pounds a year and she bowed out from her famous roll as a result. Shaws's character met a tragic and unfortunate end in the episode screened on 13 January 2003, when she was murdered by Richard Hillman (played by Brian Capron).
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