Career
Carey trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Some of her early roles were in programmes such as Z-Cars, Dixon of Dock Green, I Didn't Know You Cared and Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?. She also appeared in the famous Ripping Yarns episode "The Testing of Eric Olthwaite". She made several appearances in ITV1's 1960s Yorkshire-based drama Heartbeat in 2003 as PC Steve Crane's mother.
In Coronation Street, Carey was cast in the part of Joyce Smedley from 1996 to 1997.
In 2005, Carey played in "Midsomer Murders" (The House in the Woods) in the role of Barbara Flux.
In 2006, Carey had a small role as a voice actor playing Venat in the PlayStation 2 game Final Fantasy XII.
Most recently Carey played the role of receptionist Vivien March in Doctors from 17 May 2007 to March 2009. Her final appearance in the show was on Friday 20 March 2009. For this role Carey was honoured at the 2009 British Soap Awards with the award for 'Best Dramatic Performance'. Her rape storyline also earned the show two additional awards, including 'Best Storyline'.
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Famous quotes containing the word career:
“I seemed intent on making it as difficult for myself as possible to pursue my “male” career goal. I not only procrastinated endlessly, submitting my medical school application at the very last minute, but continued to crave a conventional female role even as I moved ahead with my “male” pursuits.”
—Margaret S. Mahler (1897–1985)
“What exacerbates the strain in the working class is the absence of money to pay for services they need, economic insecurity, poor daycare, and lack of dignity and boredom in each partner’s job. What exacerbates it in upper-middle class is the instability of paid help and the enormous demands of the career system in which both partners become willing believers. But the tug between traditional and egalitarian models of marriage runs from top to bottom of the class ladder.”
—Arlie Hochschild (20th century)
“It is a great many years since at the outset of my career I had to think seriously what life had to offer that was worth having. I came to the conclusion that the chief good for me was freedom to learn, think, and say what I pleased, when I pleased. I have acted on that conviction... and though strongly, and perhaps wisely, warned that I should probably come to grief, I am entirely satisfied with the results of the line of action I have adopted.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)