Chapter II · In character
In character
Classically trained, frequently cast as a ham. Screen, stage and commercials, with the unfashionable information left in.
Plate I · Training
Classically trained
- Drama Studio London Classical acting, PGDip
- Mountview Academy Foundation, musical theatre
Further training with Tamasha, Che Walker, RADA, Mick Barnfather, Bob McAndrew (NYC), Soho Theatre, and Gillyanne Kayes (singing).
She has twice got down to the final two for jobs at Shakespeare's Globe, once to play Mark Rylance's wife. It's unfashionable information, but she's given it to you anyway.
A proscenium. Curtains open, as trained.
Plate II · Commercials
Big-money buyouts
Her career highlight is, obviously, playing a glazed ham in a Walkers Christmas Crisps commercial (2018). She then became the global face of Tena Lady for three years, delivering the immortal line "there's no shame in a little bit of wee."
Feel free to cast her in something equally embarrassing, or hammy, for a big-money buyout.
Watch the ham →Crisps, Christmas flavour. Ham not pictured.
Plate III · Screen
On screen
A recovering alcoholic in a relationship with a younger man on BBC Doctors (RIP). In independent films: a French waitress, a stalker, and an egg obsessive.
Full credits on Spotlight ↗An egg. Obsessed over, professionally.
Also observed as
Range
In addition to Arab roles, she also plays:
- girl no. 2
- wenches
- murderers
- naughty maids
- neurotic mothers
Recorded habitats
Worked with
- BBC
- Box of Tricks
- Charing Cross
- Cockpit
- Et Cetera Theatre
- Gate Theatre
- Liverpool Arab Arts Festival
- Old Red Lion
- Shubbak Festival
- Stephen Joseph Theatre
- The Carriageworks, Leeds
- Unity Theatre, Liverpool
Plate IV · Where next
Where next?
That's the end of this chapter. The line carries on in any of these:
A fingerpost. Every direction is worth the walk.