Daisy Aitkens is an English actress and TV writer, best known for her roles in the TV series Fear, Stress and Anger and the cult zombie film Colin

Colin (film)

Colin is a 2008 English zombie film which, after a successful run in a number of film festivals, went on to be shown at Cannes in 2009. Applauded for its success despite its low budget, the total cost of production was reportedly £45...

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Background

Born in Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

, Australia

Australia

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. Aitkens is the daughter of writer Michael Aitkens

Michael Aitkens

Michael Aitkens is a British writer of drama scripts for movies, television, and the traditional stage. He is well known in the UK for the BAFTA nominated BBC situation comedy Waiting for God, first shown in 1990. He has written for many of the UK's favourite drama and comedy series.Michael...

. She studied drama at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA).

Acting

Working as an actress since 2001 in film and television productions, she has appeared in Life As We Know It, Wire in the Blood

Wire in the Blood

Wire in the Blood was a British crime drama television series, devised and produced by Coastal Productions for the ITV network that ran from 2002 to 2009. The series is based on characters created by Val McDermid; a university clinical psychologist, Dr Anthony "Tony" Valentine Hill , is teamed with...

, The Bill

The Bill

The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...

, 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...

, Doctors and she played the regular role of Lucy Chadwick in Fear, Stress and Anger Fear, Stress and Anger. Film credits include, Colin

Colin (film)

Colin is a 2008 English zombie film which, after a successful run in a number of film festivals, went on to be shown at Cannes in 2009. Applauded for its success despite its low budget, the total cost of production was reportedly £45...

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Writing career

Aitkens has worked on the staff writing team of British BBC sitcom My Family. In 2010 she wrote two episodes for the BBC sitcom Shelfstackers.

External links

Daisy Aitkens at the (Internet Movie Database

Internet Movie Database

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Daisy Aitkens at the (BBC Press Office)
Daisy Aitkens at The British Comedy Guide