---
name: "Tina O'Brien"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tina-obrien"
fi1m_id: "tina-obrien"
imdb_id: "nm0639854"
tmdb_id: 1215188
wikidata_id: "Q4340888"
roles: []
born: "7 August 1983"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 75
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-07T16:13:53.436796+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Tina O'Brien

## Identity

Tina O'Brien

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tina-obrien
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tina-obrien
- **IMDb ID:** nm0639854
- **TMDB ID:** 1215188
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4340888
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_O%27Brien, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4340888, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0639854/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1215188

Actor. Born 7 August 1983 in Rusholme, Manchester, England, UK.

## Details

- **Born:** 7 August 1983, Rusholme, Manchester, England, UK
- **Active:** 1960–2010
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 74 (1), 2010s 76 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_O%27Brien, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4340888, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0639854/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1215188

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Accused*](https://film.one/tv/accused.md) (76)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## 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.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, digitalspy.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Accused* (2010), Fi1m 76, as Leanne Lang — [page](https://film.one/tv/accused.md)
- *Coronation Street* (1960), Fi1m 74, as Sarah Grimshaw — [page](https://film.one/tv/coronation-street.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Call the Midwife* (2012), series, as Cathy Powell — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/call-the-midwife.md)
- *Accused* (2010), series, as Leanne Lang — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/accused.md)
- *The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister* (2010), as Miss Browne
- *Waterloo Road* (2006), series, as Bex Fisher
- *Blue Murder* (2003), series, as Amy Kirkland
- *Dick Whittington: The ITV Pantomime* (2002), as Maid of Tonga
- *Children's Ward* (1989), series, Actor
- *Casualty* (1986), series, as Chloe Trent — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/casualty.md)
- *Emmerdale* (1972), series, as Sarah Platt
- *Coronation Street* (1960), series, as Sarah Platt, Sarah Grimshaw, Sarah Barlow — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/coronation-street.md)

## Gallery

- ![Tina O'Brien](https://film.one/media/person/6777724/gallery-9d5e7f95c66f.jpg) Tina O'Brien — The Co-operative, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Tina_O%27Brien.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Tina O'Brien at the 2023 British Soap Awards](https://film.one/media/person/6777724/gallery-00e4a68a60dd.jpg) Tina O'Brien at the 2023 British Soap Awards — Meena, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Tina_O%27Brien_2023.jpg/1280px-Tina_O%27Brien_2023.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Tina O'Brien](https://film.one/media/person/6777724/gallery-f00c8326e814.jpg) Tina O'Brien — Image via TMDB

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