Charlotte Elouise Dimmock was born on 10 August 1966 and is an English gardening expert and television presenter.
20 Facts About Charlie Dimmock
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Charlie Dimmock was a member of the team on Ground Force, a BBC gardening makeover programme, airing from 1997 to 2005.
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Since then, Dimmock has presented numerous TV shows in the UK and US, including The Joy of Gardening, Charlie's Garden Army and most recently Garden Rescue.
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Charlie Dimmock attended Wellow Primary School and the Mountbatten School in Romsey, Hampshire.
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Charlie Dimmock's father Terry was a merchant seaman, and her mother Sue ran her own clothes shop.
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When she was at school, Charlie Dimmock initially planned to specialise in forensic science, but changed her mind and studied horticulture.
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Charlie Dimmock trained as an amenity horticulturalist at Winchester and in Somerset, graduating with a BTEC Diploma in Amenity Horticulture, attaining a distinction, and a National Technical Certificate in Turf Culture and Sporting Management.
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Charlie Dimmock spent a year of this training at the Chelsea Physic Garden in London.
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Charlie Dimmock co-presented Ground Force for the eight years it aired.
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Since then, Dimmock has presented such programmes as The Joy of Gardening and Charlie's Garden Army, as well as presenting coverage of the Chelsea Flower Show.
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Charlie Dimmock has appeared on American television, presenting a gardening slot on The Early Show on CBS.
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Charlie Dimmock made a cameo appearance as herself in the British soap opera Hollyoaks in August 2002, acting as a special guest booked by character Gordon Cunningham to unveil the "Jubilee Gardens".
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Charlie Dimmock was President of the Television and Radio Industries Club from 2003 to 2004 and presented their annual awards ceremony that year.
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In July 2016, Charlie Dimmock became a member of the team presenting Garden Rescue, a series on garden transformations produced for the BBC by Spun Gold TV.
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Charlie Dimmock has written several gardening books, including the BBC Ground Force books Water Garden Workbook and Container Gardening, as well as Enjoy Your Garden, a book on general gardening published in 2000.
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Charlie Dimmock wrote a weekly gardening column in the Mail on Sunday for many years, until January 2008.
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Charlie Dimmock appeared in pantomime over Christmas 2011 at The Spa in Bridlington playing the Organic Fairy in Jack and the Beanstalk: she reprised the role in December 2012 at the Pomegranate Theatre in Chesterfield.
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Charlie Dimmock launched her In the Garden range of gardening equipment with the retail chain Poundland on 29 February 2016.
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Charlie Dimmock's mother Sue Kennedy, 59, and her stepfather Rob, 58, both died in the 2004 tsunami caused by an Indian Ocean earthquake while they were holidaying in Thailand.
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Charlie Dimmock has been involved in many other charity works, such as Dreamflight, a charity organisation backed by British Airways for children with serious illnesses, that takes them to Florida, United States, for a "holiday of a lifetime".