Nicola Stapleton

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Nicola Stapleton
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Born	9 August 1974 London, England
Notable roles	Mandy Salter in EastEnders, Janine Nebeski in Bad Girls

Nicola Stapleton (born August 9, 1974 in London) is an English actress, most famous for her work on British television.

Stapleton's career in showbusiness started at the early age of 6 and she made her TV debut at age 12, when she appeared in ITV's 1987 children's show Simon and the Witch. She is perhaps best known for her role as the wayward Mandy Salter in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders, which she played from 1992 - 1994; though other TV credits include; The Thin Blue Line (BBC TV), Bread (BBC TV), The Bill (ITV), Casualty (BBC), Harry Enfield and Chums (BBC), Holby City (BBC), and the detective series Dempsey & Makepeace (ITV).

She is also a veteran of feature films such as An Urban Ghost Story (Living Spirit Pictures), Little Shop of Horrors, (Geffen Pictures), Courage Mountain (Paramount), Hansel and Gretel (Paramount) and the 1999 film The Killing Zone, also starring Michael Caine. In 2000, she was cast in a small-budget British film entitled Lava. She was also seen in Channel 4's successful Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star.

She is currently playing the prisoner Janine Nebeski in the ITV prison drama Bad Girls. In the latest series her character embarked on a romance with a male prison officer, who is played by her ex-EastEnders co-star, Sid Owen.

On 5 November 2006 the Stapleton family appeared on Celebrity Family Fortunes, headed by Nicola.

Stapleton's latest project is a upcoming role in the ITV police drama The Bill; her second to date.^[1] She will act alongside Birds of a Feather star Linda Robson, to form a drug-addicted mother-daughter duo. The episodes will screen in November 2006.

Stapleton is also a trained singer and gymnast.