Phina Oruche is a British actress, radio presenter and former model best known for her performances as Liberty Baker

Liberty Baker

Liberty Gidigbi is a fictional character on ITV British drama Footballers' Wives, played by English actress Phina Oruche. She is a parody of English model Naomi Campbell.-Character Description:...

 in ITV

ITV

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's Footballers' Wives

Footballers' Wives

Footballers' Wives is a British television drama surrounding the fictional Premier League Association football club Earls Park F.C., its players, and their wives. It was broadcast on the ITV network from 8 January 2002 to 14 April 2006...

, for which she won a Screen Nations Award for Favourite TV Star.
Oruche was born in Liverpool

Liverpool

Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...

, England.
On 29 March 2010, it was revealed she was cast to play a mother of a new family in teen soap Hollyoaks

Hollyoaks

Hollyoaks is a long-running British television soap opera, first broadcast on Channel 4 on 23 October 1995. It was originally devised by Phil Redmond, who has also devised shows including Brookside and Grange Hill...

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She appeared in the 6th series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!. Phina ran the 2007 and 2006 London Marathon

London Marathon

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s raising £

Pound sterling

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35,000 for the Anthony Nolan Trust. She has also appeared in 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...

, Nip/Tuck

Nip/Tuck

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, Charmed

Charmed

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, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Diagnosis Murder

Diagnosis Murder

Diagnosis: Murder is a mystery/medical/crime drama television series starring Dick Van Dyke as Dr. Mark Sloan, a medical doctor who solves crimes with the help of his son, a homicide detective played by his real-life son Barry Van Dyke. The series began as a spin-off of Jake and the Fatman...

, NYPD Blue

NYPD Blue

NYPD Blue is an American television police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan...

, The Forsaken

The Forsaken (film)

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, The Unit

The Unit

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and "Happy Ever Afters"

A former model, she represented GAP for five years in the USA, and was featured as a cover model on magazines in the 1990s. She has also made a cameo appearance in Little Miss Jocelyn

Little Miss Jocelyn

Little Miss Jocelyn is a British TV sketch comedy written by and starring Jocelyn Jee Esien. The show is made up of studio sketches and hidden camera footage in which unsuspecting members of the public become part of a sketch.-History:...

 which aired in Britain on BBC2 in January 2008.

A published writer, Oruche contributes to the Liverpool Echo amongst many others. She is also in the process of penning her first book . Phina also has a film company called Ibo Girl Films Ltd., for which she directs, edits and produces digital shorts and videos between TV and Film projects.

Recently Oruche spent some time between Los Angeles and Dublin. In Dublin she presented a show three days a week on Ireland AM

Ireland AM

Ireland AM is Ireland's only breakfast television programme. The show is broadcast live every weekday morning by TV3 and 3e.- Early years :...

 for TV3 and in London was the "Babe in the Booth" for the week starting 29 April 2008 on the morning discussion programme, The Wright Stuff

The Wright Stuff

The Wright Stuff is a British television chat show, hosted by Matthew Wright, and currently airing on Channel 5 each weekday morning from 9:15 to 11:10am....

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Phina now lives in her native Liverpool where she is presenting and producing the Saturday night radio programme Upfront on BBC Radio Merseyside

BBC Radio Merseyside

BBC Radio Merseyside is the BBC Local Radio service for the English metropolitan county of Merseyside and north Cheshire. It was the third BBC local radio station to launch on 22 November 1967 initially serving the south west of historic Lancashire....

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Phina has been married to her longtime boyfriend in August 2007. The spouses have one child.

External links

• http://www.phinaoruche.com