Sandra Downes played four roles in Coronation Street:
- A teenage customer in Gamma Garments in December 1963.
- A hostess at the Viaduct Sporting Club on its opening night in April 1964.
- Elliston's Raincoat Factory worker Cilla in May 1966.
- Ronald Wilde's secretary in October 1968.
Her other credits include The Villains, It's a Woman's World, You Can't Win, The Corridor People, ITV Playhouse, A Family at War and Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?.