Stephenswithin number 1 appeared on TV screens in 1998 in the comedy drama just about women's football "Playing the Field" in which she starredUsing James Nesbitt.

She so appeared witharound the additional promient tole in 1999, playing Plate Dockley in the ITV prison drama Bad Girls. Her performance of a psychotic Casing Dockley earned her deuce sequentially nominations for Better Actress at the National Television Awards inside 1999 & 2000. When trinity years of swimming one of a indicate's virtually all popular characters, she left around 2001, returning for a single endure period within 2003.

Since 2004, Stephenson has starred in the top rated British soap opera Coronation Street playing Frankie Baldwin, the married woman of Bradley Walsh's character, Danny. She has received numbers of nominations for Right Newcomer at many TV & A measure of laundry detergent Awards.

Inside 2005 she took part inside Comic Relief Does Fame Academy, a cantabile competition involving celebrities to raise money for charity, & finished fifth. Amoung her finest performances was a rendition of "Cry Me A River" which was known as "blemishless" & Dionne Warwick's "Anyone Who Had A Heart". Her participation on the indicate led to the record treat & she has later freed her debut album "In The Sunshine". the album includes handle song of the songs she sang on the indicate, which stem from either Kiley to Lemar & a cover of Madonna's "Music", which she sang on the Madonna Mania TV indicate.