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Denise Black (born 16 March 1958 in Emsworth, Hampshire, Hampshire) is an English actress, best known for playing Denise Osbourne in the ITV1 soap Coronation Street and Hazel Tyler in Channel 4 TV's Queer As Folk in 1999 and 2000, written by Russell T. Davies. After attending Portsmouth's Girls Public Day School, she studied Psychology at London University. She had taken a number of jobs, including working in a local psychiatric care home. After graduating, she started travelling to Gibraltar and later the West Indies, where she decided she wanted to become an actress. Her first professional role was as a cat in Miniatures at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre. She worked in several fringe theatres before gaining her Equity card in 1980. Black joined the Actor's Touring Company and performed Shakespeare around South America and in Israel, Greece and Yugoslavia.