Elaine Symons is an Irish

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 actress active on television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 since 1997.She is most notable for her role as alcoholic mother-of-five Rose Kelly in the BBC One

BBC One

BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...

 school TV drama Waterloo Road

Waterloo Road (TV series)

Waterloo Road is an award-winning British television drama series, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 March 2006. Set in a troubled comprehensive school in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, the series focuses on the lives of the school's teacher and students, and confronts social...

, making her first appearance in the first episode of the show's fourth series, screened on 7 January 2009. Her earlier credits include roles in Totally Frank

Totally Frank

Totally Frank was a comedy drama series with a real life band as its stars on Channel 4. It followed a band, Frank, who were struggling to make it in the music industry.-Frank:...

, Waking the Dead

Waking the Dead (TV series)

Waking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series produced by the BBC featuring a fictional Cold Case Unit comprising CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in September 2000 and there have been a total of nine series...

, As If

As If

As If is a British comedy-drama series broadcast on Channel 4. There were 76 episodes across four series, the first broadcast on January 22, 2001 and the last on July 31, 2004.-Premise & Facts:...

, Custer's Last Stand-up

Custer's Last Stand-up

Custer's Last Stand-Up was a BBC/RTE co-production television series which won the BAFTA for best British Children's Series in 2001. Stars included George McMahon, Ciaran Nolan, Elaine Symons, Brian James Roche, Tom Hopkins and Deirdre Monaghan....

and Touched by an Angel

Touched by an Angel

Touched by an Angel is an American drama series that premiered on CBS on September 21, 1994 and ran for 211 episodes and nine seasons until its conclusion on April 27, 2003. Created by John Masius and produced by Martha Williamson, the series stars Roma Downey, as an angel named Monica, and Della...

. It has been confirmed that Symons will reprise her role as Rose Kelly in the seventh series of Waterloo Road, airing late 2010. In 2011 Elaine Symons plays the role of Kerry Cadogan in the BBC One

BBC One

BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...

 medical TV drama Holby City

Holby City (series 14)

The fourteenth series of the British medical drama television series Holby City is scheduled to begin airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 18 October 2011 and will run for 52 episodes.-Episodes:...

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Theatre Credits

Symons starred as Lyra Belacqua in the November 2004 revival of His Dark Materials (play)

His Dark Materials (play)

His Dark Materials is a play written by British playwright Nicholas Wright adapted from the Phillip Pullman fantasy novel trilogy of the same title. The production premiered in the Royal National Theatre's Olivier Theatre, London, in 2003...

 at the Olivier, National Theatre

Royal National Theatre

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