She is known for playing Orla Crawshaw in Coronation Street, Sophie Johnson in the CITV children's sitcom My Parents Are Aliens (2001–2006) and Mrs. Fitzgerald in the CBBC series So Awkward (2015–2018).
She has a degree in Theatre Studies and Dramatic Art from the University of Warwick.
Her parents were ballet dancers, her mother from England and her father from Portugal.
[1] Her brother, Jorge, was a colonel in the British Army, who served with the First Battalion in the Queen's Lancashire Regiment.
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