Amy-Leigh Hickman was born on 16 September 1997 and is an English actress.
19 Facts About Amy-Leigh Hickman
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Amy-Leigh Hickman then went onto appear as Linzi Bragg in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, before being cast as Nasreen Paracha in the Channel 4 drama Ackley Bridge, a role for which she won the Actor award for at the RTS Yorkshire Awards.
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Amy-Leigh Hickman was born on 16 September 1997, to parents of Anglo-Indian heritage and was brought up in Hastings, East Sussex, where she attended The St Leonards Academy.
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Amy-Leigh Hickman took classes at the Mark Jermin Stage School in Cobham.
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Amy-Leigh Hickman's casting in Tracy Beaker Returns, a spin off from The Story of Tracy Beaker was announced in December 2008.
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Amy-Leigh Hickman reprised her role of Carmen Howle in The Dumping Ground, a sequel to Tracy Beaker Returns from 2013 to 2016.
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In 2013, Amy-Leigh Hickman appeared in 6 episodes of Sky One's Strike Back as Ester.
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In 2015, Amy-Leigh Hickman appeared in BBC daytime soap opera, Doctors as Sara Boswell and in Casualty as Aisha Karim.
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Amy-Leigh Hickman played the role of Carmen Howle in another The Dumping Ground spin-off, The Dumping Ground: I'm.
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In 2014, Amy-Leigh Hickman played Princess Jasmine in her management's version of Aladdin, which took place in Swansea, Wales.
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Amy-Leigh Hickman starred in another of her management's pantomimes in late 2015, this time in Sleeping Beauty, playing the role of Jill, alongside her Tracy Beaker Returns co-star Joe Maw who played the corresponding Jack.
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Later that year, Amy-Leigh Hickman worked with Nationwide Education on the web series Get Real With Money, aimed at young people with the objective of educating them about money management and finances.
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Amy-Leigh Hickman then appeared as a recurring character in the BBC soap opera EastEnders as Linzi Bragg, a love interest for Jay Brown, from February until April 2016 and returned for a short stint in March 2017.
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From 2017 to 2019, Amy-Leigh Hickman portrayed Nasreen Paracha in Channel 4 school drama Ackley Bridge.
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In 2018, Amy-Leigh Hickman appeared in the Netflix original series Safe as Sia Marshall.
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Also in 2018, Amy-Leigh Hickman played Leah in a stage production titled Beautiful Thing by the Tobacco Factory Theatre.
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Later that year, it was announced that Amy-Leigh Hickman would be starring in the second series of the ITV crime drama series Innocent, which aired in May 2021.
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Amy-Leigh Hickman then starred in a revival of the play East is East alongside Ackley Bridge co-stars Tony Jayawardena and Gurjeet Singh at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
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Amy-Leigh Hickman subsequently starred in the ITVX series Ruby Speaking, and returned for the fifth and final season of You.