In late 2007, in only her second audition, Keegan was offered the part of
Tina McIntyre in
Coronation Street, and accepted the role, beating around 900 other people who auditioned. She decided to leave the show after six years in 2013 and Tina was killed off, making her last appearance on 2 June 2014. Throughout her time on the show, Keegan's character Tina featured in many high-profile storylines.
The Guardian listed her as one of the 10 best
Coronation Street characters of all time in 2010. In 2008, the actress flew out to South Africa to film the
straight-to-DVD film
Coronation Street: Out of Africa, a
Coronation Street spinoff, in which she appeared as Tina. In June 2009, Keegan made her radio debut co-hosting the
BBC Radio 1 programme
The Official Chart. Keegan made a guest appearance as herself in the 2009 Easter special
Red Dwarf: Back to Earth. In June 2014, she embarked on a European tour to perform as
Tinkerbell in
Peter Pan. In 2015, she was cast as Tracy Shawcross in the
BBC television drama series
Ordinary Lies. In June 2015, it was announced that she would play the starring role of
Georgie Lane in
series 2 of the BBC drama series
Our Girl, replacing
Lacey Turner as
Molly Dawes, which aired throughout September 2016; a
third series consisting of 12 episodes began airing in October 2017. She returned for her
final series as Georgie in 2020. Also in 2016, Keegan landed a guest role on the
ITV2 comedy series
Plebs. In June 2016, she began filming the
ITV drama series
Tina and Bobby, based on Tina Dean's and
Bobby Moore's relationship in which she played Tina; it was a three part series which aired in January 2017. In 2017, Michelle Keegan partnered with the clothing brand Lipsy with her own collection. Keegan portrayed the main character, Erin Croft, in
Sky One's comedy-drama series,
Brassic, which started in 2019. On 22 February 2022, Keegan was a guest judge on the
Snatch Game episode of the
first series of ''
RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs. the World. In May 2022, the BBC and STAN commissioned a new series starring Keegan, Ten Pound Poms'', a drama about the
British citizens who migrated to Australia after the
Second World War, with filming commencing in Australia shortly after. Keegan starred as the main character, Maya Stern, in the 2024 eight-part television series
Fool Me Once, adapted from the 2016
Harlan Coben novel of the same name by
Danny Brocklehurst and made for
Netflix by Quay Street Production. ==Personal life==