Sarah Manners
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Sarah Manners (born 25th August 1975) is a British actress best known for her television work
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[edit] Biography
Manners was born in Birmingham, England. She grew up in Edgbaston with her father David, a classic car parts specialist; mother Janet, a former headmistress; sister Kate, 30, and brothers Guy, 26, and Tom, 25.
Educated at the Bluecoat School in Harborne, she later left King Edward VI School with 10 GCSEs, four A-Levels. Manners graduated from the Central School of Speech and Drama with a BA in acting in 1996. To help pay her way in acting school she took a job working in McDonald's.
She appeared in numerous commercials and a series of films before she got her big TV break in afternoon soap Doctors. Her best-known roles are as K.C. in the Sky One drama Mile High and Bex Reynolds in the BBC One medical drama Casualty, where she also revealed a talent for comedy. Through her role on Casualty, she appeared in a calendar with profits going to Children in Need Appeal. She also came sixth in the BBC's second series of Strictly Come Dancing.
Manners was voted one of FHM's Hot 100 Sexiest Women. Recently she has also been named one of the "Sexiest TV Babes" in Zoo magazine.
Manners married long term partner, computer saleman Ben O'Sullivan in 2003
[edit] Selected filmography
- Touch and Go (1998)
- Sugar, Sugar (1998)
[edit] Notable Television Appearances
- EastEnders (1997)
- Beginners Luck (1999)
- Doctors (2000-2001)
- Hollyoaks:Movin' On (2001)
- Mile High (2003)
- Casualty (2003-2005)
[edit] Other work
- Communicating Doors (2000) Gateway Theatre, Chester
- BBC1 The Afternoon Play : Girls' Weekend (2003)
- Strictly Come Dancing (2004)
