Carli Norris is an English

English people

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 stage, film and television actress.

On TV, she first appeared as Alice McMahon in Eastenders

EastEnders

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, the title character in Catherine Cookson's

Catherine Cookson

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 Tilly Trotter, central characters in In Deep

In Deep

-Charts & certifications:In Deep has sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide.The album is the highest selling album in France by an Australian female singer and is currently the 181st best-selling album in France.-Peak Positions:-End of year charts:...

, Grafters

Grafters

Grafters was a British drama–comedy programme originally broadcast in the UK on ITV from 27 October 1998 to 20 December 1999 for 16 episodes over two series....

, Roger Roger

Roger Roger

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, The Mrs Bradley Mysteries

The Mrs Bradley Mysteries

The Mrs Bradley Mysteries is a British television drama series, produced in-house by the BBC for broadcast on the BBC One channel, based on the character created by detective writer Gladys Mitchell...

, Frank Skinner's

Frank Skinner

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 Shane

Shane (UK TV series)

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, The House that Jack Built

The House That Jack Built

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, Sam's Game

Sam's Game

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, as Phoebe in Fanny Hill

Fanny Hill (2007 serial)

Fanny Hill is a BBC adaptation of John Cleland's controversial novel, Fanny Hill, written by Andrew Davies and directed by James Hawes. This is the first television adaptation of the novel...

and as Verity in Slammertime's 2010 episode of My Family.

Norris was born in Barking in 1974, moved to Harlow in 1976 and attended Milwards Primary and Stewards Comprehensive schools. She moved with her family to Woodford in Essex in 1991 and took a Performing Arts Course at Epping Forest College in Loughton, Essex. She won a scholarship to RADA

Rada

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 and also to LAMDA but chose RADA. She was signed up to Gavin Barker Associates and just before officially graduating, was chosen to play Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion

Pygmalion (play)

Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts is a play by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of...

at the Albery Theatre

Noël Coward Theatre

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, directed by Ray Cooney

Ray Cooney

Raymond George Alfred Cooney, OBE is an English playwright and actor. His biggest success, Run for Your Wife, lasted nine years in London's West End and is its longest-running comedy. He has had 17 of his plays performed there....

 and produced by Bill Kenwright

Bill Kenwright

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. Roy Marsden

Roy Marsden

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 and Michael Elphick

Michael Elphick

Michael John Elphick was an English actor. Elphick was known in the UK for his trademark croaky voice and his work on British television, in particular his roles as the eponymous private investigator in the ITV series Boon and later Harry Slater in BBC's EastEnders.Robust and ruggedly good-looking...

 also starred.

She has appeared in numerous theatre productions, several produced by Bill Kenwright and often in Ray Cooney productions.

She married Emmerdale's

Emmerdale

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Gary Turner

Gary Turner

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in 2005, and lives in the Essex countryside with their two daughters.

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