Anna Lauren is a British

United Kingdom

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 actress.

She has appeared in Dalziel and Pascoe

Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC TV series)

Dalziel and Pascoe is a popular British television crime drama based on the Dalziel and Pascoe books by Reginald Hill, which was first broadcast in March 1996. It is set in Yorkshire, and is about two detectives...

as Katie Donovan, but her first role was in Casualty

Casualty (TV series)

Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...

playing Linda Carson.

More recently she has appeared as Karin Jones in EastEnders

EastEnders

EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...

, and Kim Reid in "Holby City"

Personal life

Anna was born in 1980 and was raised in Sheffield and attended High Storrs School, where her father was a performing arts teacher. Anna, whose real name is Anna Tomlinson, was forced to assume her middle name 'Lauren' as a surname as another actress was already registered under the name Anna Tomlinson.

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