[6][7] She attended Godfrey Ermen Memorial Primary and Canon Williamson High School, before going on to study at Salford City College.
Following the shows relocation to Greenock in Scotland for the eighth series, Healey announced she would be moving north to continue portraying the role.
[10] Healey has also made guest appearances in the crime drama Conviction, as well as the sitcom Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps as a member of the 'Chavettes', which Louise had to monitor for her community service.
[11] She has played two different characters in the daytime medical soap opera Doctors in 2004 and 2007 respectively, Ilsa Marsh in the episode "Overdue" and Louise Calvert in "Next Door to Alice".
[15] On 23 March 2012, Healey and Kovalev took part in an underwater special of Strictly Come Dancing in aid of Sport Relief, competing against Judd and Vilani.
Healey gave incorrect answers to all four of her questions, including thinking that the Olympic host city that is an anagram of "Gin Jibe" was Belgium.
[19] In 2013, Healey joined Jack Dee, Dara Ó Briain, Greg James, Melanie C and Philips Idowu in Through Hell and High Water, a Comic Relief challenge that involved British celebrities canoeing the most difficult rapids of the Zambezi River.
[21] On 19 May 2014, it was announced that Healey would join the cast of the BBC medical drama Casualty in the regular role of Honey Wright, the emergency department's new tea lady.
[25] In September 2016, Healey appeared on The Chase: Celebrity Special, opposite "The Beast" Mark Labbett and alongside actor Colin Baker, paralympian David Weir, and comedian Alex Horne.
She made a cameo appearance in the second episode of the eleventh series, at the funeral of Chlo Grainger (Katie Griffiths).