Lydia Grant Character of the Month

 

Lydia Grant is the confident, tough talking dance teacher at the school of the Arts.  She instils discipline, professionalism and hard work into her students in order to push them to be the very best they can be.

She is strong willed and determined. She is as hard on herself as she is on her students and wants to pass on all the knowledge and wisdom that she has gained over the years of how show business works.

Lydia is a talented dancer and performer in her own right and has her own dreams of "Fame" and has performed professionally but she also loves teaching and seeing her students develop.

Lydia also has a strong sense of equality, right and wrong and is not easily fooled. She also enjoys a challenge. 

She has her own dreams of "Fame" and has performed professionally but she also loves teaching and seeing her students develop.

We learn in "Tomorrow's Children" that in the 60s she took part in sit in to protest for human rights and  racial discrimination. She had to fight for the right to go to ballet class.

A single independent woman, Lydia has experienced love but never found the one special person to settle down with. In "The Last Dance" we learn that her high school sweetheart, first boyfriend and the first guy she kissed was Billy Waters.  In "Pros and Cons" after Lydia has been to her 15 year High School reunion, where she graduated in 1971 Billy Waters returns. however Love isn't on the cards as Billy turns out to be a con man.

In "Blizzard" Lydia talks about wanting children and says she's often wondered what it was like to have a baby growing inside. Although her students definitely are like a substitute for her own kids. She has a particularly strong feelings of concern for Leroy.

Despite Lydia's tough exterior, she is a sensitive soul  who will go out of her way to help anyone. In "Expose" we discover that she keeps records of job vacancies and contacts to help kids find jobs to help them pay their way while pursuing their dreams of Fame.

In "Of Cabbages and Kings" we learn that she keeps a scrapbook on all the students and events that happen at the school.

In "Reflections" it is revealed that Lydia suffered from Anorexia as a teenager but eventually got over it as she wanted to Live.