Sophie Powles (born 16 September 1988) is an English actress, known for her role as Holly Barton in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale.
Her character Ronnie was the only one of the main cast who was not a student at the fictional school of performing arts.
[3] On 5 February 2016, new series producer Iain MacLeod announced that Powles had reprised her role and would be returning to Emmerdale the following month.
[4] However, just under seven months later in August 2016, Powles once again quit the soap, with a source stating that she "never saw her return as a long one".
The actress had already filmed her final scenes at this point, and the character departed the show on 29 September 2016, when Holly was killed off.