Wendi Peters

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Wendi Louise Peters (born 29 February 1968), is an English character actress and singer.

She is known for playing Cilla Battersby-Brown in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street and has worked extensively on stage, appearing both plays and musicals, including works with Sir Jonathan Miller, Terry Johnston, Matthew Warchus and John Godber.

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Career

Peters appeared in the ITV series Bad Girls for two episodes in 2001. Peters was a finalist on Celebrity Masterchef in 2009. She has appeared on many cookery shows, including Market Kitchen, Christmas Cooks, This Morning, and The F Word in 2008 with chef Gordon Ramsay. Peters finished runner-up to Paul Ross on BBC's Celebrity Mastermind in 2006. She appeared on Celebrity Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Jamie Theakston appears in this episode. Peters spent a week in December 2006 with Susie Dent, the resident lexicographer, in Dictionary Corner on Countdown.

Peters appeared on Adrenaline Junkie in 2008 with Jack Osborne leaping out of a helicopter at 9,000 feet over Table Mountain. She also participated on the ITV's Soapstar Superstar, raising £35,000 for her chosen charities.

Marion Jackson appeared in an episode of Crime Stories in 2012. Peters appeared on BBC Two on Monday as he won a Children in Need episode. She appeared on Flockstars for ITV in 2015. In March 2021, she appeared in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors as Nicky Connelly and then appeared in the "Midsomer Murders" episode "The Sting of Death."

Peters began imagining Cilla Battersby-Brown in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street in 2003. Peters would leave Coronation Street after four years of playing Cilla Battersby-Brown, according to the newspaper on January 18, 2007. Cilla left her son Chesney behind when she left Las Vegas for the show. She jokingly explained on Children in Need that she was returning from Las Vegas to give Chesney more money as he was 'down to his last tenner'. Cilla returned to Africa in November 2008 in a straight-to-DVD special that saw her son Chesney, daughter Fiz, and Kirk's then-boyfriend. After a seven-year absence from the program, Peters reprised the role of Cilla for six weeks on October 22nd.

Peters' varied stage career began in 1987 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, Sheffield. Peters was the lead actor in Harold Brighouse's production of The Game in Northern Broadsides in 2010. Barrie Rutter, the Artistic Director and founder of Northern Broadsides, had not been seen in 100 years and was directed by and starred Barrie Rutter. Mrs Metheral, Peters' protagonist, was played by him. Her appearance earned critical acclaim, Michael Billington of The Guardian dubbed "simply superb" and "an instant comic masterpiece" by The Observer.

Dominic Cavendish of The Daily Telegraph said, "Ma was played with comical clumsiness and rolling pin obduracy by Wendi Peters." Her appearance alone is worth the admission price.

Peters performed Bet in John Godbers two-hander in Paris, directed by Godber himself in 2011. In this fruitful revival, Peters has received a lot of praise from the media.

Peters toured Ireland in 2009 with a one-woman play Mrs Whippy, written by Cecelia Ahern, was a top-seller all over Europe and turned into a film starring Hilary Swank. Throughout the tour, Peters got rave reviews.

In Grumpy Old Women Live 2 – Peters showed her comedic skills once more. In 2010, this performance at the Novello Theatre in London's West End came back for a season.

Peters' other theatre appearances include Bedroom Farce (1996), Noises Off (1997) Stephen Sondheim's Into The Woods (1992), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1991), and Guys and Dolls (1991), which was based on Michael Schmidt's analysis, "One of the hot box girls, Wendi Peters' charming comic dancing should have landed her a curtain call all on her own."

Peters appeared in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, a musical comedy by Rupert Holmes based on Charles Dickens' unfinished book, in Aria Entertainment's London revival of The Mysterious Mrood. The production ran at the Landor Theatre in April/May and then moved to the Arts Theatre, West End for a limited run starting 18 May 2012.

Peters appeared in White Christmas at the Lowry in Salford Quays, with Dallas Star Ken Kercheval and Brookside and Loose Women actor Claire Sweeney from November 2012 to January 2013.

Sir Jonathan Miller supervised Rutherford and Son, the Royal National Theatre's last performance in 1994. To widespread critical acclaim, Peters appeared as Mrs Henderson. "Wendi Peters has a spectacular cameo as a whining petitioner, casually describing the company's workforce problems," The Times' Libby Purves wrote. Other media outlets followed her, adding that she was "unforgettable" and that her appearance was "formidable."

In the West End production of White Christmas at London's Dominion Theatre in 2014, Peters reprised his Ethel Merman role of Martha. The theatre critics lauded her for her "stunning appearance."

Terry Johnston, a highly acclaimed British theatre director, starred Peter Peters in his 2015 revival of Joan Littlewood's musical Oh, What a Lovely War! Ian Reddington and Christopher Villiers co-starred Ian Reddington and Christopher Villiers on tour around the country. The production was a huge critical success.

Peters appeared in the new play Hatched 'n' Dispatched at The Park Theatre, London, in 2015. Dorothy Needham, the family's patriarch, received raves for her role. "There are pleasures to be had," Michael Coveney of WhatsOnStage said, "particularly from a leather-lunged Wendi Peters (aka Cilla Battersby-Brown in Coronation Street) as the straight-talking materfamilias." "There is some absorbing work from Wendi Peters as a gorgon mother-in-law," Fiona Mountford of the Evening Standard wrote. Peters has been nominated for the Best Female Achievement of 2015 by the Off West End Award.

Peters played the evil Carabosse in Sleeping Beauty at the Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, from November 27, 2015 to January 24, 2016. Peters appeared in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as the Wicked Queen, alongside Damian Williams and Phil Gallagher at Sheffield Lyceum Theatre in 2016. In Peter Pan, she appeared as Big Chief Squatting Cow, Mrs Darling, and the Mermaid.

During Frank Wildhorn's Wonderland's UK tour, Peters played Queen of Hearts.

Peters played Cissy Robson on the UK tour of Quartet in 2018, alongside Jeff Rawle, Paul Nicholas, and Sue Holderness.

During 2018, Peters appeared in Salad Days, a touring tour of the United Kingdom.

In 2019, Peters appeared in Call Me Vicky's Off-West End run. She appeared in Big The Musical for nine weeks.

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