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'''Tracy Shaw''' (b. [[1 April]] [[1975]]) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] actress.

==Career==

Her best known work at present is hairdresser [[Maxine Peacock]] in the long-running, popular British soap '[[Coronation Street]]' which is set and filmed in [[Manchester]], [[England]]. Shaws's character met a tragic and unfortunate end in [[2003]] when she was murdered by [[Richard Hillman]].

She has also appeared in numerous [[ITV]] dramas. In [[2003]] Shaw appeared as Sally in the stage play '[[The Blue Room]]', starring alongside a nude [[Jason Connery]] ([[Sean Connery]]'s son).

==Personal Life==

Shaw has struggled with [[anorexia]], and [[bulimia]] (falling from eight to a low weight of five stone), and at one point cocaine addiction. She haswas also been caught shoplifting, which she put down to simple absent-mindedness, and no charges were pressed. In May 1996 things looked up as she was presented with the '1996 Rear of the Year' title. HerShe fatherhad commenteda inseries 2003of that Shaw neededhigh-profile helpromances, survivingincluding onengagement "threeto bottles[[Darren ofDay]], winewhich andlead ato packetcocaine of peanuts every dayaddiction."

She had a series of high-profile romances, including engagement to [[Darren Day]]. Shaw married producer Robert Shaw in June 2001, afterbut earlya reportedseries early problems ocured including a row on a return flight from the [[Caribean]] having been filiming ITV1's "Wish You Were Here". In 2003, her father Karl Shaw was featured in an article in the [[News Of The World]], and said that Shaw survived on "three bottles of wine and a packet of crisps a day". He also said that if "she carries on this way it will kill her". Shaw made moves to trun her life around, including seeking psychiatric help. The couple now have one child and are expecting their second.

===Stalker===

In 2000, alleged stalker Kevin Sedgwick plead guilty to harassing Shaw over a period of five years. He had written a number of letters to her, as well as [[Coronation Street]] co-stars [[Jacqueline Pirie]] and [[Jennifer James]], and hung around the grounds of Granada Studios in Manchester, put his arms around Miss Shaw, and asked for a kiss. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/entertainment/871845.stm] Sedgwick plead guilty later that year to multiple acts of gross indecency with children and had suffered from hearing voices in his head. [http://www.fortunecity.com/oasis/seychelles/577/nov11news2000.html]