Television Roles
Her first big role was in Emmerdale but before that she had also been in many other programmes including Casualty but her main role was as Cynthia Daggert in Emmerdale. She had previously been in Emmerdale as Carmel Morgan in 1997 but Cynthia was introduced in 2001 as a regular role.
Since October in 2007 she played the role of Head Dinner lady Candice Smilie in the BBC Drama Waterloo Road. She also was cast in My Parents are aliens (a TV series on CITV) twice as different characters firstly as a drama coach in the episode "First Christmas" from the end of series two in 2000 then in series 8 playing a social worker in 2006. She played Gina Conway in all three series of Tracy Beaker Returns, and will return for the upcoming The Dumping Ground spinoff of the show in 2013. She was also in Celebrity Fit Club as herself in 2002.
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