Lorraine McIntosh

McIntosh is a vocalist with Deacon Blue, whose second studio album, When the World Knows Your Name (1989), topped the UK Albums Chart for two weeks,^[2][3] and included "Real Gone Kid", which became their first UK top ten single.^[2][4]

McIntosh took a break from music to play the character Alice Henderson in the Scottish soap opera River City, which was set in a fictitious suburb of Glasgow. Her character first appeared in 2002 and was written out during May 2010. Further television appearances include the police drama Taggart^[5] and BBC One comedy-drama Hope Springs.^[5] McIntosh has also appeared in Scottish cinema, including Ken Loach's My Name Is Joe,^[5] and Lone Scherfig's Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself.^[5]

In November 2024, Abertay University honoured McIntosh with an honorary Doctor of Arts degree.^[6]

McIntosh was born on 13 May 1964 in Glasgow, Scotland^[7][8] and was raised in the Ayrshire town of Cumnock.^[9] She married Deacon Blue lead singer Ricky Ross on 12 May 1990; they have four children.^[10][11]

She is of maternal Irish Catholic descent: her mother, Sarah McIntosh (née Gallagher), was from the townland of Dore in Gweedore, a district in the north-west of County Donegal in Ulster.^[12][13][14]

• Raintown (1987)
• When the World Knows Your Name (1989)
• Fellow Hoodlums (1991)
• Whatever You Say, Say Nothing (1993)
• Walking Back Home (1999)
• Homesick (2001)
• The Hipsters (2012)
• A New House (2014)
• Believers (2016)
• City of Love (2020)
• Riding on the Tide of Love (2021)^[15]
• The Great Western Road (2025)