Linus Roache. Actor: Mandy. Linus Roache began his acting career with a two-week appearance as a young Barlow on Coronation Street (1960) at the age of 11. He also played a boy with the bubonic plague in Die Onedin Linie (1971). He spent much of the next two decades on stage. In 1986 he had brief appearances in a few films, including Link, der Butler (1986). He was brought to...