[2][3] Upon their marriage, Quintin and Muriel settled at Derryinch, a townland on the northern edge of Enniskillen, where they raised their two children: a daughter, Mary, and a son, Charles (Charlie).
[2] Charlie was raised in a Protestant family, and was educated at Campbell College, a grammar school in Belfast, where he was a boarder.
[5] Charlie then trained as an actor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where a classmate and good friend of his was fellow Enniskillen native Adrian Dunbar, who Lawson has said was the first Catholic he had ever met.
In 2009, Lawson appeared alongside an eight-foot Frankfurter sausage in a German television commercial, advertising hot dogs.
[citation needed] In 2010, Lawson revealed that he would be returning to Coronation Street for its fiftieth anniversary celebrations.
His brief return coincided with the imprisonment of Peter Barlow (Chris Gascoyne) after he was wrongly accused of murdering Tina McIntyre.
In 2015, Lawson made a guest appearance in an episode of the Comedy Central sitcom Brotherhood as the father of the three main characters.
Lawson returned to Coronation Street in September 2018 with his supposed deceased daughter from his relationship with Liz.