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10 Facts About Caroline Harding

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Caroline Harding was born on March 1962 and is an English television actress and playwright.

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Caroline Harding has written and performed in numerous theatrical productions, including her play Two Sisters, which received nominations for two Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards for Best Play and Best Performance in 2007, and a one-woman show about the eminent Restoration actress Nell Gwyn.

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Caroline Harding graduated from the Guildford School of Acting and worked extensively for the Royal Shakespeare Company in the late '80s.

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Caroline Harding's portrayal is still more impressive when you consider that, by contrast, just a couple of scenes earlier she was an elegant, icy society doyenne in sequins and silk.

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Around the same time, Caroline Harding starred in the productions of Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.

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Caroline Harding called it Pretty Witty Nell after a description of Gwyn by Samuel Pepys, the famed diarist and social commentator of the day.

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Caroline Harding then appeared in all four episodes of the BBC Two medical drama Degrees of Error, starring Beth Goddard, and all six episodes of the BBC One legal drama Fish, starring Paul McGann in the eponymous role.

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Caroline Harding has played five different characters, including three doctors, in another popular ITV soap opera, Emmerdale.

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Caroline Harding has been married to actor Chris Gascoyne, best known for his role as Peter Barlow in the soap opera Coronation Street, since 2002.

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Caroline Harding has two children, Pip and Freddie, from a previous marriage to actor Jason Watkins.