Mollie Winnard

Winnard was born in Wigan on 14 March 1997.^[1] She grew up in Chorley, Lancashire. She started acting in a primary school production and joined a local youth theatre. Winnard attended Winstanley College in Wigan. She subsequently trained at the Manchester School of Acting.^[2][3]

Winnard made her television debut as Zoe in the 2017 BBC One drama Love, Lies and Records.^[4] The following year, she joined the cast of the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street as antagonist Kayla, a role she played from April to July 2018.^[5][6][7] Her performance won Best Bad Girl at the Inside Soap Awards.^[8]

In 2020, Winnard began playing the recurring character Maggie in the Channel 5 revival of All Creatures Great and Small.^[9] She appeared in the 2022 ITV true crime miniseries Four Lives as Demi.^[10] In 2023, Winnard joined the cast of the BBC One crime drama Happy Valley for its third series as Joanna Hepworth.^[11] In 2026, it was announced that she had joined the cast of the BBC school drama series Waterloo Road as Gemma Tully, a newly qualified teacher. She will make her first on-screen appearance in its eighteenth series.^[12]

As of 2023, Winnard is in a relationship with DJ Jordan Murphy.^[13]