Her other roles include Ester Kamali in Strike Back (2013), Sia Marshall in Safe (2018), Mimi Saunders in Our Girl (2020) and Bethany in Innocent (2021).
Hickman was born on 16 September 1997,[1][2] to parents of Anglo-Indian heritage and was brought up in Hastings, East Sussex,[3][4] where she attended The St Leonards Academy.
[10] In 2015, Hickman appeared in BBC daytime soap opera, Doctors as Sara Boswell and in Casualty as Aisha Karim.
[21] Hickman then appeared as a recurring character in the BBC soap opera EastEnders as Linzi Bragg, a love interest for Jay Brown (Jamie Borthwick), from February until April 2016 and returned for a short stint in March 2017.
[25][26] Also in 2018, Hickman played Leah in a stage production titled Beautiful Thing by the Tobacco Factory Theatre.