Holly Grainger

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Holly Grainger (born 1988 in Didsbury, Manchester, England) is an English actress best known for playing parts in award-winning productions such as The Rottentrolls, The Missing Postman and Sparkhouse.

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[edit] Biography

Grainger is the daughter of Irish actor Gawn Grainger. As a pupil of The Parrs Wood Technology College she gained two 'A's (biology and English language) and two 'B's (English literature and general studies) in her A-levels in August 2006 as well as an 'A' in AS level Spanish, having aleady achieved three 'A*'s and eight 'A's in her GCSEs.[1] She attended The Madeley School of Dance in Didsbury, and as of 2007 is studying for an English degree at the University of Leeds.

[edit] Career

Grainger first started acting aged 5. In 1994 she appeared in All Quiet on the Preston Front. Her acting CV since then has included, for the most part, TV dramas and comedies, such as Roger and the Rottentrolls (1996), and Daddy Fox (2000) as well as having minor roles in the dramas Casualty (2000), Doctors (2001), Dalziel and Pascoe (2001), The Royal (2003), No Angels (2005) and most recently, Waterloo Road (2007).

She also appeared in the TV dramas The Missing Postman (1997), Sparkhouse (2002), and The Illustrated Mum (2003).

In 2003, she landed the part of Megan Boothe in Where the Heart Is. She left the role in 2005 and the character was played by Holly Lucas in the 2006 series. In 2007 she appeared in a TV adaptation of Johnny and the Bomb, the ITV1 production of The Bad Mother's Handbook based on the best-selling novel, along with roles in New Street Law and Billy Goat, part of the BBC1 Fairy Tales series. Holly will next be seen in Dis/Connected(2008). She is also set to make her big screen debut in Awaydays(2008) as Molly.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "TV starlet makes the A-Level grade", Education, Manchester Evening News, 17 August 2006. 

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NAME Grainger, Holly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION English actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Didsbury, Manchester, England, UK
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH