Yasmin Bannerman

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Yasmin Bannerman
Born	1972 Gloucester, England
Other name(s)	Yasmine Bannerman
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1995 – present

Yasmin Bannerman (born 1972) is an English actress. Bannerman was born and raised in Gloucester, where she attended St Peter's Roman Catholic School. She spent time acting there and later joined the Everyman Youth Theatre in Cheltenham before beginning a degree in modern European literature at the University of Reading. She dropped out after a year to attend the Rose Bruford College in London, graduating in 1993.^[1]

Her first television role came in 1995 when she appeared in an episode of Crown Prosecutor. Shortly afterwards she was cast as Maddie Parker in Channel 4's soap opera Hollyoaks. She describes her role in the soap as "demanding", though the character appeared less frequently as time went on. Further appearances include a brief role in Red Dwarf—in a scene that took a day to shoot—and a recurring role in the third series of Cold Feet as Jessica Barnes, a local political activist who has an affair with David Marsden (played by Robert Bathurst). On working on the series, in which she filmed sex scenes with Bathurst, Bannerman has said that she received "very interesting letters" from people who believed the scenes were real.^[2]

In the same year she appeared in Ben Elton's Maybe Baby as Melinda. Further appearances include roles in Queen of Swords, In Deep, Holby City, Life on Mars, and an eight-episode stint in Merseybeat. In 2005 she played Jabe—an alien that resembles a tree—in the second episode of BBC Wales' revival of Doctor Who. Her audition for the part was "shrouded in secrecy" and required a lengthy make-up process; the prosthetics took three hours to apply and 90 minutes to remove.^[1] Further involvement in the Doctor Who franchise includes a guest role in the audio drama The Bride of Peladon and a part in the Torchwood episode "They Keep Killing Suzie".

Bannerman is married to Toby, with two children, Oskar and Thalia.^[1]

[edit] Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Other notes
1995	Crown Prosecutor	Marion Hearn	1 episode ("Series 1, Episode 4")
	Hollyoaks	Maddie Parker	Original cast member (1995 - 1997)
1999	Red Dwarf	First Ground Controller	1 episode ("Back in the Red, Part 3")
2000	Happy Birthday Shakespeare	Vanessa
	Maybe Baby	Melinda
	Cold Feet	Jessica Barnes	5 episodes (Series 3, Episodes 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7)
2001	Queen of Swords	Agatha	1 episode ("Runaways")
	In Deep	Toni Carr	1 episode ("Jekylls, Part 1")
2002	Holby City	Rebecca Arrowsmith	1 episode ("Hello Goodbye")
	Killing Me Softly	Joanna
	Mersey Beat	Blue McCormack	Main cast member
2005	Doctor Who	Jabe	1 episode ("The End of the World)
	55 Degrees North	Jade	2 episodes ("Series 1, Episode 7" and "Series 1, Episode 8")
2006	New Street Law	Elaine Warren	1 episode ("Series 1, Episode 8")
	Torchwood	Swanson	1 episode ("They Keep Killing Suzie")
2007	Life on Mars	Eve Olawi	1 episode ("Series 2, Episode 1")
	Life Line	Ruth

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[edit] External links

• Yasmin Bannerman at the Internet Movie Database

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