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* The former [[Secretary of State for Northern Ireland]], [[Mo Mowlam]], represented [[Redcar (UK Parliament constituency)|Redcar parliamentary constituency]] in the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]].<ref name="G:MoMow">{{Cite web |last=Langdon |first=Julia |date=19 August 2005 |title=Obituary: Marjorie Mowlam |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/aug/19/obituaries.northernireland |access-date=9 September 2008 |website=Guardian |archive-date=12 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212150217/http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/aug/19/obituaries.northernireland |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Film and television actors [[Pip Donaghy]],<ref name="IMDb">{{Cite web |title=Pip Donaghy |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0231904/bio |access-date=4 August 2017 |website=IMDb.com |archive-date=5 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150805140714/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0231904/bio |url-status=live }}</ref> [[June Laverick]], and Wendy Hall, and actor/director/producer Robert Porter were all born in Redcar.<ref name="IMDbS">{{Cite web |title=Place of Birth Search |url=https://us.imdb.com/BornWhere?for=redcar |access-date=27 May 2008 |website=Internet Movie Database}}{{Dead link |date=July 2012}}</ref>
* Actor and radio actor [[Felicity Finch]], famous for her part in [[the Archers]] BBC Radio 4 drama series, playing [[Ruth Archer]], was also born and grew up in Redcar.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Robson |first=Dave |date=29 June 2017 |title=Award for Teesside actress 4m people a week listen to |work=Gazette Live |url=https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/four-million-people-listen-every-13258875 |access-date=3 December 2018 |archive-date=3 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181203202854/https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/four-million-people-listen-every-13258875 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Actor [[Anne Reid]] lived in Redcar as a child and attended John Emmerson Batty School and the White House School<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/nov/22/anne-reid-interview</ref>.
* Singer [[David Coverdale]], lead singer with [[Deep Purple]] and [[Whitesnake]] lived in Redcar as a youth and worked in the Gentry clothes shop on Coatham Road.<ref name="Wearside">{{Cite web |title=David Coverdale |url=http://www.wearsideonline.com/music16.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070127080422/http://www.wearsideonline.com/music16.html |archive-date=27 January 2007 |access-date=27 May 2008 |website=Wearsideonline.com}}</ref>
* [[Chris Norman]], founder member and former lead singer of [[Smokie (band)|Smokie]] was born in Redcar.<ref name="IMDb:NN">{{Cite web |title=Chris Norman (I) |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0635463/ |access-date=10 August 2008 |website=IMDb.com |archive-date=13 March 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050313014015/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0635463/ |url-status=live }}</ref>