Samantha Lewis is a former teenage actress. She is best known for her role as Georgina Hayes in the long-running BBC

BBC

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 school drama, Grange Hill

Grange Hill

Grange Hill is a British television drama series originally made by the BBC. The show began in 1978 on BBC1 and was one of the longest running programmes on British television...

, from 1986-1991. She is also a farmer

Lewis trained at the Italia Conti theatre school in London

London

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, and whilst there was one of Naomi Campbell

Naomi Campbell

Naomi Campbell is a British model. Scouted at the age of 15, she established herself among the top three most recognisable and in-demand models of the late 1980s and early 1990s, and she was one of six models of her generation declared "supermodels" by the fashion world...

's best friends. Prior to assuming the regular role of Georgina in 1986, Samantha appeared in the final episode of the 1985 series, in which the school staged its own musical.

Lewis now chaperones young actors and in her new role has worked on Little Britain

Little Britain

Little Britain is a British character-based comedy sketch show which was first broadcast on BBC radio and then turned into a television show. It was written by comic duo David Walliams and Matt Lucas...

, much to the delight of its star Matt Lucas

Matt Lucas

Matthew Richard "Matt" Lucas is an English comedian, screenwriter and actor best known for his acclaimed work with David Walliams in the television show Little Britain; as well as for his portrayals of the scorekeeping baby George Dawes in the comedy panel game Shooting Stars, Tweedledee and...

who was a huge fan of Georgina in the 1980s.