Debra Stephenson was born in 1972 in Kingston upon Hull.   She first appeared on television at the age of fourteen in “Opportunity Knocks”.   In 1999 she played Shell Dockley in TV’s “Bad Girls”.   Between 2004 and 2006 she was Frankie Baldwin in “Coronation Street”.    She has also featured in “Midsomer Murders” and “Where the Heart Is”.