Brooke Kinsella was born on 17 July 1983 and is a British actress.
22 Facts About Brooke Kinsella
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Brooke Kinsella has had various roles on television and in film.
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Brooke Kinsella has her own drama school called True Stars Academy.
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Brooke Kinsella's family made headlines in the British press in 2008 following the murder of her half-brother, Ben, who was stabbed to death in June 2008.
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Brooke Kinsella attended the Maria Fidelis RC Convent School in Camden.
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Brooke Kinsella made her television debut at the age of 7 in the BBC children's series Mud and has appeared in a variety of other TV productions, including Coming Home.
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In 2002, Brooke Kinsella appeared as Liz Chambers in ITV1's cop show The Bill, playing a teenage runaway.
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Brooke Kinsella's character is later the first victim of the original Sun Hill Serial Killer.
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Brooke Kinsella completed the first year of a degree in English, Media and Drama at Buckinghamshire New University before joining the cast of EastEnders.
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Brooke Kinsella joined the show for a brief stint in 2001, before returning as a full-time cast member from 2002 to 2004.
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Louise Berridge, the one-time executive producer of EastEnders, made the decision to axe Brooke Kinsella's character in 2004 to allow further character development of her on-screen best friend, Zoe Slater; however, Brooke Kinsella maintains it was a mutual decision between herself and Berridge.
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In March 2008, Brooke Kinsella said in an interview with Woman magazine that she would love to return to EastEnders at some point.
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Brooke Kinsella's debut novel, Friendship Is A Funny Thing is awaiting publication.
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Brooke Kinsella was made an MBE for her work on knife crime in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2011.
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Brooke Kinsella's father left the family when she was four years old and she was raised by her mother Debbie and stepfather George, who Brooke Kinsella has described as her "real dad".
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Brooke Kinsella married her long-term partner Simon Boardley on 28 December 2017.
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On 22 September 2020, Brooke Kinsella gave birth to their first child, a daughter.
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On 29 June 2022, Brooke Kinsella gave birth to their second child, a boy.
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The Brooke Kinsella family launched the Ben Brooke Kinsella Trust in Ben's memory, in a bid to end knife crime.
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On 23 and 25 February 2011, an anti-knife campaign, funded by the Brooke Kinsella trust was run in Birmingham's New Street Station, in conjunction with the British Transport Police and Great Barr School's drama department from its Sixth Form centre.
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Brooke Kinsella was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to the prevention of knife crime.
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In December 2018, Brooke Kinsella appeared in an episode of the BBC One series Defenders UK to talk about the murder of her brother, Ben.