Biography
Tina O'Brien is an English actress. She was born on 7 August 1983 in Rusholme, Manchester. Her early television roles included appearances in Children's Ward (1997), The Cops (1998) and Clocking Off (2000).
O'Brien is best known for portraying Sarah Platt in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 1999 to 2007 and from 2015 onwards. She has also appeared as Bex Fisher in Waterloo Road (2010–2011), Cathy Powell in Call the Midwife (2012), Chloe Trent in Casualty (2011, 2014) and Leanne Lang in the Jimmy McGovern drama Accused (2010). Other credits include The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010) and Doctors (2014).
In 2013 she co-founded the Manchester drama school Drama MOB.
