CHARLOTTE COLEMAN

Coleman gave a memorable performance in this witty and refreshing take on Jeanette Winterson’s semi-autobiographical novel, which unpeels a teenager’s quest for sexual acceptance in a repressive religious household. At the time, a ground-breaker.

ANNA FRIEL

in Brookside (1994)

Friel has gone on to achieve many things in her career but her place in TV history was assured when, aged 17, she instigated Britain’s first pre-watershed lesbian kiss in her role as feisty teenager Beth Jordache. And the name of the character Beth locked lips with? Give yourself a point if you came up with the name Margaret.

KEELEY HAWES AND RACHAEL STIRLING in Tipping The Velvet (2002)

Nudity aplenty as Hawes and Stirling threw themselves with gusto into a full-on adaptation of Sarah Waters’ novel featuring Kitty and Nan, two characters grappling with their emotions – and the intricacies of corsetry – in a heaving slice of Victorian-era life.

MAXINE PEAKE

in The Secret Diaries Of Miss Anne Lister (2010)

The BBC has a short memory because we’ve delved into Anne Lister’s diaries before – not that you’d know it from the promo for Gentleman Jack. Maxine Peake gave a bravura performance in a TV movie version, with Christine Bottomley as her soulmate Ann Walker.