Maggie McCarthy appeared on Coronation Street between December 2005 and January 2006 as artist Hilary Sanders.
A long list of credits include roles in She's Out, All Quiet on the Preston Front, Hello Girls, Midsomer Murders, Trial and Retribution V, Last Detective, Doctors, Green Green Grass, Dancing on the Edge and has also appeared in films including Hilary and Jackie, Angela's Ashes, Ester Kahn, Calendar Girls, The History Boys, Cassandra's Dream, Leap Year, Attack the Block and Hysteria.
On stage she has appeared in productions of Steward of Christendom, The Storm, Mr Nobody, Romeo and Juliet, Factory Girls, Major Barbara, Uncle Vanya, Children of the Sun, Gaslight, Juno and the Paycock and Absence of War.