Actress and model Lorraine Chase is best known for her role as Steph Stokes in long-running ITV soap, Emmerdale. A role in which she played from from 2002 to 2006, with a brief return in 2013.
Emmerdale's then-executive producer, Steve Frost, chose her to play the mother of Tricia Stokes due the actress' physical resemblance, Daily Star reports.
She played an ex-convict and featured in some of the show's most prominent controversial storylines to date including family bereavement, mental illness, murder, fraud and incest sexual abuse until November 2006 when her character was sent to jail for a life sentence.
