Biography

Debra Ruth Burton was born in 1958 in Salford, Manchester. She has three sisters and a brother. Debra grew up in Manchester, her father Julie Burton was a manufactorer and her mother Gwennie was a housewife. She first decided she wanted to be an actress when she was only eight years old. As soon as she ended her school carrer, she was offered a place at Manchester Politan and Manchester University. Debra went to Manchester University to study Drama, when she was twenty-one she got married to Steven Tucker (founder of Europarks!) she was the only person in her University to be married and in 1982, she made a contract with the best acting agent in Lancashire and she began her carrer as an actress.