1. April Janet Pearson was born on 23 January 1989 and is an English actress.
13 Facts About April Pearson
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April Pearson made her acting debut in 1998 at the age of nine on the British medical drama series Casualty, and earned wider recognition in her breakthrough role as teenager Michelle Richardson in the E4 teen drama series Skins, for which she was nominated for the Golden Nymph Award for an Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival.
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April Pearson attended Colston's Girls' School in the Montpelier area of Bristol, where in 2007 she was appointed head girl, and was a member of the Bristol Old Vic Young Company.
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At the age of 9, April Pearson made her television debut with a minor role in the British medical drama series Casualty in 1998.
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April Pearson was a student at Colston's Girls' School in 2006 when she was cast in the television teenage-drama Skins.
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Later in 2009, April Pearson returned to theatre starring in Catherine Johnson's Suspension at the Bristol Old Vic.
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In 2012, April Pearson co-starred in Jen Moss' dark comedy-drama short film My Brother's Keeper, playing the role of Jess, who is looking after her well-meaning but dim-witted brother during a zombie apocalypse.
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April Pearson later reunited with Skins co-creator Bryan Elsley in 2013, in which she briefly appeared as Liz in Dates.
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In January 2015, she starred in the music video for The Wombats' single, "Greek Tragedy", in which April Pearson plays an obsessed Wombats fan.
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In 2016, April Pearson starred in Fractured, about a couple whose peaceful getaway weekend goes awry, where she reunited with Home for Christmass Karl Davies and director Jamie Patterson.
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In 2018, April Pearson co-wrote and starred in Patterson's independent comedy-drama film Tracked, in which a young couple try to save their failing relationship by interrailing around Europe together.
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In 2014, April Pearson founded the Laboratory Theatre Company with film director Jamie Patterson.
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On 8 December 2021, April Pearson announced she was pregnant with her first child.