Billie Paul Piper was born on Leian Paul Piper; 22 September 1982 and is an English actress and former singer.
54 Facts About Billie Piper
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Billie Piper initially gained recognition as a singer after releasing her debut single "Because We Want To" at age 15, which made her the youngest female singer to enter the UK Singles Chart at number one; her follow-up single "Girlfriend" entered at number one.
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In 1998, Piper released her debut studio album, Honey to the B, which was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry.
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In 2003, Billie Piper announced that she had ended her music career to focus on acting.
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Billie Piper appeared in the BBC One sci-fi series Doctor Who as Rose Tyler, companion to the Doctor as a regular between 2005 and 2006, and additionally in 2008,2010, and 2013.
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Billie Piper co-created and starred in the Sky Atlantic series I Hate Suzie, for which she earned a BAFTA nomination for a Best Actress in 2021 and 2023.
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Billie Piper has starred in five plays since 2007 and won the 2017 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for her performance in Yerma, described as a "generation's best".
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Billie Piper went on to win a total of six Best Actress awards for that one performance, including the Olivier Award, making Piper the only actor to have won six out of an available six Best Actress awards for a single performance.
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Billie Piper was born in Swindon, Wiltshire on 22 September 1982.
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Billie Piper has one younger brother, Charley, and two younger sisters, Harley, and Elle.
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Billie Piper attended Bradon Forest School in Purton, near Swindon, but left at around the age of 12 after winning a scholarship to the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London.
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Billie Piper later landed a role in a television commercial promoting the pop magazine Smash Hits.
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Billie Piper was offered a record deal at the age of 15, and in 1998, became the youngest artist to debut at number one in the UK Singles Chart with "Because We Want To", released under the stage mononym "Billie".
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At the 1998 Smash Hits Poll Winners' party, Billie Piper was nominated for Best New Act and won Princess of Pop.
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Billie Piper then released "Billie Piper Wants You" as the third single from the album.
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In 1999, Billie Piper was nominated for two BRIT Awards and won two awards at the 1999 Smash Hits Poll Winners' party, although she was reduced to tears at the latter ceremony after being booed by fans of Ritchie Neville, whom she was dating at the time.
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Billie Piper then started to tour and release in Asia.
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Billie Piper recorded a song for Pokemon: The First Movie titled "Makin' My Way ".
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Billie Piper decided to release further records under her full name of Billie Piper.
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In October 2000, Billie Piper released her second album, Walk of Life, which reached No 14 in the UK Album Chart, but quickly fell off the charts and was certified silver in the UK.
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In Billie Piper's autobiography, she states that the album was a "commercial bomb".
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In February 2001, Billie Piper appeared in court to testify against a woman named Juliet Peters.
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In 2004, Billie Piper appeared in the films The Calcium Kid and Things to Do Before You're 30.
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Billie Piper was cast as Rose Tyler, a travelling companion to the ninth incarnation of The Doctor.
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Billie Piper won the Most Popular Actress category at the 2005 and 2006 National Television Awards for her work on Doctor Who.
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Billie Piper starred as Hannah Baxter in Secret Diary of a Call Girl, an ITV2 adaptation of Brooke Magnanti's The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl, a memoir detailing the life of a high-class prostitute who adopted "Belle de Jour" as her pseudonym, which aired from September 2007.
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Billie Piper did not initially state whether she would be reprising the role again.
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The BBC planned to film all four of Pullman's Sally Lockhart novels, with Billie Piper continuing in the role in The Shadow in the North, which was shown in December 2007.
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Billie Piper appeared as Fanny Price in an adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park, screened on ITV1 in March 2007.
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Billie Piper then provided voice-overs for various television commercials, including one for Comfort fabric-softener airing in June 2007.
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Billie Piper shared the role of Betty with Sue Johnston in the two-part TV adaptation of A Passionate Woman, screened on BBC 1 in April 2010.
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In May 2011, it was announced that Billie Piper would join the cast of a romance-comedy film directed by Robin Sheppard titled Truth about Lies.
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In January 2013, Billie Piper stated on The Graham Norton Show that she had not been asked to return for the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who the BBC announced in the following March that she would be returning in the special, titled "The Day of the Doctor", which was broadcast in November 2013.
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On 11 May 2014, Showtime aired a new horror series called Penny Dreadful in which Billie Piper plays Brona Croft, a poor Irish immigrant who is trying to escape a dark past.
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Billie Piper was nominated for Best TV Supporting Actress at the 2015 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards.
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Billie Piper returned to the role of Rose Tyler alongside David Tennant in three stories that form the second volume of The Tenth Doctor Adventures audio drama series from Big Finish Productions.
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In 2019, Billie Piper wrote, starred in and made her directorial debut with the "anti-romcom" Rare Beasts, before appearing alongside Sally Hawkins, Alice Lowe, and David Thewlis in Eternal Beauty, directed by Craig Roberts.
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Billie Piper portrays the titular Suzie Pickles, a former child screen star whose life and career are turned upside down by a compromising phone hack.
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In March 2021, it was announced that Billie Piper would appear in the film adaptation of a children's book called Catherine Called Birdy.
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Billie Piper made her stage debut in a touring production of Christopher Hampton's play Treats, which opened in early 2007 in Windsor, Berkshire.
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Billie Piper played Carly in the UK premiere of Neil LaBute's play Reasons to Be Pretty at the Almeida Theatre, running from November 2011 to January 2012.
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Billie Piper made her National Theatre debut in The Effect by Lucy Prebble, which ran from November 2012 to February 2013.
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The play went on to become the most critically acclaimed show of the season and Billie Piper was nominated for the WhatsOnStage Best Actress award for her work in The Effect.
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In 2013, Billie Piper was nominated for Best Actress at the Olivier Awards and Evening Standard Theatre Awards for The Effect.
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Billie Piper starred in Great Britain at the Royal National Theatre in 2014.
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On 29 May 2014, Billie Piper appeared alongside Ben Whishaw in the Playhouse Presents television special Foxtrot.
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In 2016, Billie Piper starred in an adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca's 1934 play Yerma at the Young Vic, written and directed by Simon Stone.
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Billie Piper was described as "earth-quaking" by The Guardian and "a generation's greatest performance" by The Stage.
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Billie Piper reprised the performance in a limited run at New York's Park Avenue Armory during March and April 2018, her New York stage debut.
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Billie Piper married television presenter Chris Evans in a secret ceremony at the Little Church of the West in Paradise, Nevada near Las Vegas on 6 May 2001 after six months of dating.
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Billie Piper married actor Laurence Fox on 31 December 2007, at St Mary's Church in Easebourne, West Sussex.
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Billie Piper began dating Johnny Lloyd, the frontman of Tribes, in 2016.
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Billie Piper has won and been nominated for more than 70 recognised awards.
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Billie Piper has been nominated for two British Academy Television Awards for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress for her performances in the television dramas Collateral and I Hate Suzie, respectively.