Nicole Faraday
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Nicole Faraday is an actress best known for her leading roles on British
television series Bad Girls
and Casualty
.
Nicole Faraday is an English
actress and singer, born in Germany
on 28 July to British parents. Her father, a consultant doctor, was a medical officer in the Royal Air Force
working on a British base in Germany at the time of her birth. The family later moved back to her mother's home town of Swanage
in Dorset
. Nicole attended Talbot Heath School
in Bournemouth
, Clayesmore School in Blandford Forum, Dorset
and went on to train in musical theatre at the Guildford School of Acting
.
's Bad Girls
and the BBC's Casualty
. Faraday's most recent credits include The Bill, ITV's Kingdom and Doctors for the BBC. In Bad Girls
, she played prison inmate Snowball Merriman in series 4 and 5; she played a different character, Shell Dockley, in the West End
stage musical version at London's Garrick Theatre
. This role was played (as a non-musical part) in Series 1, 2, 3 and 5 of the television series by Debra Stephenson
. Faraday and Stephenson bear a strong physical resemblance and their characters in Bad Girls
were similarly styled. The script for Bad Girls
acknowledged this; when the character of Shell returned to the TV series for several episodes in series 5 (after being recaptured after having escaped from prison and spending some time on the run in Europe), Shell offers up a comment on Snowball: "Cheeky slag! Swanning about, nicking my look. Who does she think she is? Me?!"
Faraday won a prestigious TMA Award in October 2006 for best supporting actress in a musical for her portrayal of Shell in the musical's original run at the West Yorkshire Playhouse
.She was subsequently nominated for Best supporting Actress in a musical at the West End What's on Stage Theatregoers Choice Awards 2007/8.Other notable West End Theatre credits include An Audience With The Mafia at the Apollo Theatre.
Nicole appeared as the Wicked Queen in the pantomime Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at Eastbourne's Devonshire Park Theatre from 12 Dec 08 to 11 Jan 2009 alongside Stefan Booth
and Niamh Perry
from BBC's I'd Do Anything
She sang solo with Frank Renton's Concert Brass on 10 December 2009 at the Royal Albert Hall at a charity Concert with the Stars for TV Times in aid of Leukaemia Research.She regularly performs her own cabaret at venues such as Pizza on The Park-The Pheasantry.
She has twice appeared as a guest star in best friend Dianne Pilkington
's cabarets at Lauderdale House in 2005 and 20th February 2011, singing 'Who Will Love Me As I Am' and 'It's Never That Easy/I've Been Here Before' respectively.She sings this duet on Dianne's debut album "Little Stories".She can also be heard on the West End cast album of "Bad Girls the Musical".
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
television series Bad Girls
Bad Girls (TV series)
Bad Girls is an award-winning British television drama series that was broadcast on ITV from 1999 to 2006. It is produced by Shed Productions, the company which later produced Footballers' Wives and Waterloo Road...
and 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...
.
Nicole Faraday is an English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
actress and singer, born in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
on 28 July to British parents. Her father, a consultant doctor, was a medical officer in the Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Formed on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world...
working on a British base in Germany at the time of her birth. The family later moved back to her mother's home town of Swanage
Swanage
Swanage is a coastal town and civil parish in the south east of Dorset, England. It is situated at the eastern end of the Isle of Purbeck, approximately 10 km south of Poole and 40 km east of Dorchester. The parish has a population of 10,124 . Nearby are Ballard Down and Old Harry Rocks,...
in Dorset
Dorset
Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...
. Nicole attended Talbot Heath School
Talbot Heath School
Talbot Heath School is a selective, independent day and boarding school for girls aged 3–18 located in Talbot Woods, Bournemouth.The school was founded in 1886 as Bournemouth High School, by Mary Broad, with eighteen pupils. In 1935 the school moved from its original site in Westbourne to Talbot...
in Bournemouth
Bournemouth
Bournemouth is a large coastal resort town in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. According to the 2001 Census the town has a population of 163,444, making it the largest settlement in Dorset. It is also the largest settlement between Southampton and Plymouth...
, Clayesmore School in Blandford Forum, Dorset
Dorset
Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...
and went on to train in musical theatre at the Guildford School of Acting
Guildford School of Acting
Guildford School of Acting is a drama school located in Guildford, Surrey, England. It is an affiliate of the University of Surrey and is an accredited member of the National Council for Drama Training and The Conference of Drama Schools.-Overview:...
.
Acting roles
From 2001–2003 Faraday was a principal cast member of both ITVITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
's Bad Girls
Bad Girls (TV series)
Bad Girls is an award-winning British television drama series that was broadcast on ITV from 1999 to 2006. It is produced by Shed Productions, the company which later produced Footballers' Wives and Waterloo Road...
and the BBC's 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...
. Faraday's most recent credits include The Bill, ITV's Kingdom and Doctors for the BBC. In Bad Girls
Bad Girls (TV series)
Bad Girls is an award-winning British television drama series that was broadcast on ITV from 1999 to 2006. It is produced by Shed Productions, the company which later produced Footballers' Wives and Waterloo Road...
, she played prison inmate Snowball Merriman in series 4 and 5; she played a different character, Shell Dockley, in the West End
West End theatre
West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...
stage musical version at London's Garrick Theatre
Garrick Theatre
The Garrick Theatre is a West End theatre, located on Charing Cross Road, in the City of Westminster. It opened on 24 April 1889 with The Profligate, a play by Arthur Wing Pinero. In its early years, it appears to have specialised in the performance of melodrama, and today the theatre is a...
. This role was played (as a non-musical part) in Series 1, 2, 3 and 5 of the television series by Debra Stephenson
Debra Stephenson
Debra Stephenson is an English actress, comedian, impressionist and singer.-Career:At the age of fourteen Stephenson appeared on BBC TV's Opportunity Knocks, winning her way through to the All-Winners' Final, broadcast live from the London Palladium...
. Faraday and Stephenson bear a strong physical resemblance and their characters in Bad Girls
Bad Girls (TV series)
Bad Girls is an award-winning British television drama series that was broadcast on ITV from 1999 to 2006. It is produced by Shed Productions, the company which later produced Footballers' Wives and Waterloo Road...
were similarly styled. The script for Bad Girls
Bad Girls (TV series)
Bad Girls is an award-winning British television drama series that was broadcast on ITV from 1999 to 2006. It is produced by Shed Productions, the company which later produced Footballers' Wives and Waterloo Road...
acknowledged this; when the character of Shell returned to the TV series for several episodes in series 5 (after being recaptured after having escaped from prison and spending some time on the run in Europe), Shell offers up a comment on Snowball: "Cheeky slag! Swanning about, nicking my look. Who does she think she is? Me?!"
Faraday won a prestigious TMA Award in October 2006 for best supporting actress in a musical for her portrayal of Shell in the musical's original run at the West Yorkshire Playhouse
West Yorkshire Playhouse
The West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds, England is a theatre which opened in March 1990 as part of the regeneration of the Quarry Hill area of the city...
.She was subsequently nominated for Best supporting Actress in a musical at the West End What's on Stage Theatregoers Choice Awards 2007/8.Other notable West End Theatre credits include An Audience With The Mafia at the Apollo Theatre.
Nicole appeared as the Wicked Queen in the pantomime Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at Eastbourne's Devonshire Park Theatre from 12 Dec 08 to 11 Jan 2009 alongside Stefan Booth
Stefan Booth
Stefan Booth is an English actor and singer currently starring in the BBC soap opera EastEnders as Greg Jessop. He left the series in August 2011 and will return to the show.-Background:...
and Niamh Perry
Niamh Perry
Niamh Perry is an Irish singer and actress who competed as one of the finalists in the BBC talent show-themed television series I'd Do Anything in 2008 and is currently portraying Fleck in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Love Never Dies.-Background:Born in Bangor, County Down, Perry attended Our...
from BBC's I'd Do Anything
I'd Do Anything
I'd Do Anything may refer to:*I'd Do Anything *"I'd Do Anything" *"I'd Do Anything" *"I'd Do Anything" , from the musical Oliver!*I'd Do Anything , reality show on ESPN...
She sang solo with Frank Renton's Concert Brass on 10 December 2009 at the Royal Albert Hall at a charity Concert with the Stars for TV Times in aid of Leukaemia Research.She regularly performs her own cabaret at venues such as Pizza on The Park-The Pheasantry.
She has twice appeared as a guest star in best friend Dianne Pilkington
Dianne Pilkington
Dianne Lesley Pilkington is an English theatre actress and singer.- Life :Pilkington was born in Wigan. She trained at the Guildford School of Acting, graduating in 1997 with the Principal's Award....
's cabarets at Lauderdale House in 2005 and 20th February 2011, singing 'Who Will Love Me As I Am' and 'It's Never That Easy/I've Been Here Before' respectively.She sings this duet on Dianne's debut album "Little Stories".She can also be heard on the West End cast album of "Bad Girls the Musical".
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Time Gentlemen Please Time Gentlemen Please Time Gentlemen Please is a British sitcom. Commissioned by Sky One, it was primarily written by Richard Herring and Al Murray and ran for two series between 2000 and 2002.- Premise and characters :... |
Sally | one episode |
| 2002– 2003 |
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... |
Heather Lincoln | 11 episodes |
| 2002– 2003 |
Bad Girls Bad Girls (TV series) Bad Girls is an award-winning British television drama series that was broadcast on ITV from 1999 to 2006. It is produced by Shed Productions, the company which later produced Footballers' Wives and Waterloo Road... |
Snowball Merriman | 14 episodes |
| 2003 | Loose Women Loose Women Loose Women is a British lunchtime television programme, first broadcast in 1999 on ITV. It consists of a panel of four women who interview celebrities and discuss topical issues, ranging from daily politics and current affairs, to celebrity gossip... |
Herself | one episode |
| 2004 | Bad Girls: Most Wanted | Herself Snowball Merriman Shell Dockley |
TV programme |
| 2008 | Julie Seaton | one episode | |
| 2008 | Grandma's Funeral | ||
| 2009 | Doctors | Samantha Ashdown | one episode |
| 2009 | Kingdom Kingdom (TV series) Kingdom is a British television series produced by Parallel Film and Television Productions for the ITV network. It was created by Simon Wheeler and stars Stephen Fry as Peter Kingdom, a Norfolk solicitor who is coping with family, colleagues, and the strange locals who come to him for legal... |
Joannie | one episode |
External links
- Nicole Faraday profile at CasualtyCasualty (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...
& Holby CityHolby CityHolby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999...
fan site, holby.tv - Bad Girls: The Musical official website
- www.badgirls.co.uk – archive characters and eps series 4 and 5