For her role on Coronation Street, Danson won the 2011 British Soap Award for Best Dramatic Performance.
At the age of 12, Danson made her television debut under the name Jane Dawson in the 1991 Alan Bleasdale series GBH playing the part of Eileen Critchley.
The Battersby family were dubbed the "Neighbours From Hell" and made an immediate impact on the long-running show's loyal audience.
In early 2006, it was announced that Danson was pregnant and she left Coronation Street at the end of July for maternity leave.
However, a subsequent investigation into malpractice on the part of ITV in viewer voting revealed that while Danson and Tupele Dorgu were both put forward for elimination at the end of the first episode, it had in fact been Verity Rushworth and Leon Lopez who scored lowest in the poll and should therefore have been the two options.
In 2019, Danson took part in the eleventh series of Dancing on Ice alongside professional partner Sylvain Longchambon.