- Married actor Anthony Booth in hospital one week before she died of cancer.
- Born Patricia Frederica Manfield at St Mary's Hospital, Manchester to Anna Maria Josephine (née Noonan), originally of County Galway, Ireland, and Thomas Manfield. Phoenix claimed she had been born in County Galway but later stated she had merely been agreeing with something her mother had already told the press.
- She was reportedly under consideration for the main lead female role in the film Room at the Top (1958) but Simone Signoret was cast instead.
- At the time of her death she was lined up for the role of a high - powered glamorous businesswoman in a new soap opera called The Legacy which had american production interests and might have launched her on an American career.
- Her final appearance in Coronation Street (1960) was on 4 January 1984 when, according to the storyline, she was going to start a new life with her old flame Bill Gregory and helping him run his bar in Portugal.
- In 1959 she was cast in the lead role of the stage production of "Fings Ain't What They Used To Be" but was taken ill with chest pains. Miriam Karlin took over the role and both she and the show were a West End success.
- She was a heavy smoker all her life and continued to smoke when she was dying of lung cancer.
- Portrayed by Jessie Wallace in The Road to Coronation Street (2010).
- Her marriage to her first husband in 1953 lasted only a year but they did not divorce until 1961.
- Just prior to joining Coronation Street she was out of work and broke.
- She used to be a filing clerk in Manchester.
- She toured service bases with Manchester Arts Theatre Company in 1942, worked with Chorlton Repertory, in Manchester among others.
- She lived in a 16 room mansion on the Cheshire- Derbyshire border.
- The wardrobe she used for personal appearances included some 250 pairs of shoes.
- Loves dog and had 3 , a Corgi, Mr Smith, a mongrel, Mr Robinson and a Husky Mr Big,.
- Lives tn a Georgian cottage in Cheshire.
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