Carli Norris
| Carli Norris | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Carli Norris 16 November 1973 Woodford (or Barking), London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1998 - present |
| Notable work(s) | Pygmalion |
| Television |
EastEnders Doctors Hollyoaks |
| Spouse(s) | Gary Turner (2005-) |
Carli Norris (born 16 November 1973, Woodford (or Barking), London) is an English actress, known for her role as Anoushka Flynn in the BBC soap opera Doctors, in the BBC soap opera EastEnders as Alice McMahon, or most recently, Martha Kane in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks.
Personal life
Norris was born in Barking (or Woodford) in 1973, moved to Harlow in 1976 and attended Milwards Primary School and Stewards Comprehensive School. She moved with her family to Woodford in East London in 1991 and took a Performing Arts Course at Epping Forest College in Loughton, Essex. She won a scholarship to RADA and also to LAMDA but chose RADA. In 2005 she married actor Gary Turner (who had appeared as Carlos Diaz in the TV soap-opera Emmerdale) and lives in the Essex countryside with their two daughters.
Career
In June 1997, just before officially graduating from RADA, she was chosen to play Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion (replacing Emily Lloyd who had been asked to leave the production prior to the opening)[1][2] alongside Roy Marsden and Michael Elphick at the Albery Theatre, directed by Ray Cooney and produced by Marc Sinden for Bill Kenwright.[3] They also produced her next show, which was for the Peter Hall Company, when she appeared in the premier and tour of Simon Grays Just The Three Of Us with Prunella Scales and Dinsdale Landen.[4]
She has appeared in numerous other theatre productions, several produced by Bill Kenwright and often in Ray Cooney productions.
On television, she first appeared as Alice McMahon in EastEnders; the title character in Catherine Cookson's Tilly Trotter; central characters in In Deep; Grafters; Roger Roger; The Mrs Bradley Mysteries; Frank Skinner's Shane; The House that Jack Built; Sam's Game; Phoebe in Fanny Hill and as Verity in Slammertime's 2010 episode of My Family. Currently, she plays the role of Martha Kane in Hollyoaks.[5]
On film, she has appeared in the 2013 release of Ray Cooney's farce Run For Your Wife.
References
- ↑ Nigel Dempster, Daily Mail, June 20, 1997
- ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-pygmalion-albery-theatre-london-kiss-me-kate-regents-park-london-1253448.html
- ↑ British Theatre Guide (1997)
- ↑ http://www.theatrerecord.org/Archives/Years.html
- ↑ http://www.e4.com/hollyoaks/cast/girls/marthakane.html
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