Chelsee Healey

Chelsee Healey
Born Chelsea Jade Healey
6 August 1988 (1988-08-06) (age 23)
Salford, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
Occupation Actress
Years active 2003–present

Chelsee Healey (born Chelsea Jade Healey on 6 August 1988) is a British actress best known for playing Janeece Bryant in the BBC drama series Waterloo Road.

Career

Healey was born in Salford, Greater Manchester, to a father of West Indian descent and an English mother.[1] Her small-screen debut was in the recurring role of Katie Moore in BBC Three's twenty-something drama Burn It in 2003.[1]

Healey played pupil Janeece Bryant from 2006 to 2009 on the BBC drama series Waterloo Road. After departing at the end of the programme's 4th series in May 2009, she reprised the role for its 6th series as the new school secretary, broadcast in 2010.[1][2] She also is among the cast members confirmed to return for the 7th series of Waterloo Road (2011-2012).[1]

Healey has also made guest appearances in the crime drama Conviction;[3] the situation comedy Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps;[3] daytime medical soap opera Doctors[3] — all for the BBC — and Channel 4's teen soap Hollyoaks.[3] She appeared in Two Pints… as a member of the 'Chavettes', which Louise had to monitor for her community service;[4] in Hollyoaks she played Michelle, Danny Valentine's ex-girlfriend/fiancee. She has played two different characters in Doctors — Ilsa Marsh in the episode "Overdue" (2004); and Louise Calvert in "Next Door to Alice" (2007).[4]. She also had an appearance in Young Dracula as a reporter in 2011.[5]

Healey took part in the ninth series of Strictly Come Dancing.[6] She was partnered with dancer and newcomer to the series Pasha Kovalev. Healey became the first contestant in series 9 to earn a perfect 40 out of 40 for her paso doble, in week 11 of the competition. She finished the series as runner-up.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Staff (2011) Chelsee Healey BBC Home, Strictly Come Dancing, Celebrity Dancers, Retrieved 2 November 2011
  2. ^ Search engine Laine Manage
  3. ^ a b c d Staff (6 September 2011) Strictly Come Dancing 2011: Chelsee Healey Radio Times, Retrieved 2 November 2011
  4. ^ a b Chelsee healey Internet Movie Database, Retrieved 8 November 2011
  5. ^ Young Dracula - Series 3 - Faustian Slip BBC CBBC (2011), Retrieved 9 November 2011
  6. ^ "Strictly Come Dancing signs up Lulu and Edwina Currie". BBC News. British Broadcasting Corporation. 6 September 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14809342. Retrieved 6 September 2011. 
  7. ^ Daniels, Colin (17 December 2011). "Harry Judd wins 'Strictly Come Dancing' 2011". Digital Spy. (Hearst Magazines UK). http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s104/strictly-come-dancing/news/a356486/harry-judd-wins-strictly-come-dancing-2011.html. Retrieved 18 December 2011. 

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Preceded by
Matt Baker and Aliona Vilani		 Strictly Come Dancing runner up
(with partner Pasha Kovalev)
Series 9 (2011)		 Succeeded by
Incumbent