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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Claire Jane
Sweeney is an English actress, singer and television personality best
known for playing the role of Lindsey Corkhill in the Channel 4 soap
opera Brookside and her appearance on the first series of the Reality TV
show Celebrity Big Brother. Sweeney was born in Walton, Liverpool. She
trained at the Elliott-Clarke Theatre School in Liverpool, and went on
to the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London. Her first singing
gig, at the age of 14, was in the Montrose Club in Liverpool. In 1987,
she was a member of the Southport Summer Youth Theatre Workshop's
production of the musical Hair. Following this production, she
auditioned for a part in the Southport Arts Centre's Centre Stage
Company production of Chicago but was turned down because she was
considered too young - she later went on to star in a West End version
of the same show
