Beth Jordache

Beth Jordache is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Brookside. Played by Anna Friel, the character's first appearance was during the episode broadcast on 15 February 1993, where Beth and her family were seen moving into number 10, Brookside Close. Beth's move to the neighbourhood—along with mother Mandy (Sandra Maitland) and younger sister Rachel Jordache (Tiffany Chapman) —was a bid to escape the clutches of her violent father, Trevor Jordache (Bryan Murray).

Friel made her final appearance on 25 July 1995, with the character dying offscreen in the following night's episode. Beth was paramount to some of Brookside's most famous and controversial plots, such as the killing—and subsequent "patio" burial—of her abusive father and the first ever pre-watershed lesbian kiss in British television history.