Nadia Sawalha
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| Born | Nadia Sawalha 18 November 1964 Wandsworth, London, England |
| Other name(s) | Nadia Carina |
| Occupation | Television presenter, Actress |
| Spouse(s) | Justin Mildwater (-1996) Mark Adderley (2002-) |
Nadia Sawalha (born 18 November 1964) is an English actress and television presenter of Jordanian, British, and French Huguenot descent.
Sawalha is perhaps best known for her role as Annie Palmer in the BBC soap opera EastEnders during the 1990s, although most of her television work is now as a presenter rather than an actress.
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[edit] Acting & Presenting
After training at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, Nadia, who hails from a family of successful actors, began her career in theatre.
In 1997 she got her big break in EastEnders. As the tough-nut business woman Annie Palmer, Nadia became a familiar face in thousands of homes around the UK. She remained in the role until 1999.
Her other acting television credits include Casualty, Which Way to the War and ITV police drama, The Bill.
She has also appeared in the films Clockwise, Top Tips, Sleeping with the Fishes and the BBC Victorian drama Station Jim.
Presenting Aside from acting, Nadia has become a regular personality on daytime TV, after presenting the live programmes Loose Women and Live Talk.
For the BBC, she has fronted four series of Passport to the Sun, the Total series, TV Mail, Heir Hunters, Perfect Partner and Family Exchange. She is also a co-host on the live documentary City Hospital.
She has previously hosted the morning BBC One show Living in the Sun, about British ex-pats living in Spain, made by Ricochet, and Wanted Down Under, which shows familes who want to make the move to Australia, and occasionally New Zealand what it would be like to live and work in those Antipodean nations.
She can also be seen on Accidents Can Happen, a daytime BBC One programme produced by Twofour, which follows families as they try to rebuild their homes and their lives following disaster.
Nadia co-presented The One Show with Adrian Chiles. This nationwide-style show launched on BBC One in the summer of 2006 and features a mix of interviews, factual features and topical stories. On Wednesday March 14th 2007, it was confirmed on Digital Say Broadcast and The Sun that Nadia would not return to co-present The One Show when it returned in the summer of 2007, because she was pregnant.
In 2008, she returned to BBC One, to once again present its daytime programme, Wanted Down Under.
[edit] Other appearances
Nadia has appeared as a guest on Test the Nation and contributed to Comic Relief by taking part in Celebrity Driving School.
She won the 2007 series of Celebrity Masterchef, beating Craig Revel Horwood and Midge Ure in the final.
[edit] Personal life
Nadia is the daughter of the actor Nadim Sawalha, and sister of television star, Julia Sawalha. The three all starred together in Dearest Daddy... Darling Daughter at the Young Vic Theatre in South London in 1997.
On Christmas Day 1997, Sawalha's first husband Justin Mildwater committed suicide shortly after she left him.
She once dated her EastEnders co-star Marc Bannerman, who played her on-screen love interest Gianni di Marco. She is now married to her second husband, Mark Adderley, and has a daughter called Maddy, who was born on Christmas day 2002. Nadia had since celebrated the birth of her second daughter Kiki in August 2007.
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Co-Host of The One Show 2006 |
Succeeded by Myleene Klass |
