Conversations with Gerry Kelly - Charlie Lawson

The ‘bad boy’ of Coronation Street, so he is. Like his television soap character Jim McDonald, Charlie Lawson has a reputation of being out-spoken and controversial but a man who sticks to his own set of long held principles. Born in Enniskillen into a well to do loyalist family and educated in Belfast, Charlie talks about his rebellious teenage years, how he never met a Catholic until he was 20 and about how he flirted with a loyalist paramilitary group in Scotland before finding his vocation as an actor. Recently married, Charlie appears content with life today although he still has a hankering to get back to the cobbled streets of Weatherfield.