1. Kara Louise Tointon was born on 5 August 1983 and is an English actress, known for portraying the role of Dawn Swann in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
22 Facts About Kara Tointon
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Kara Tointon was a paid professional child dancer at age 11 for Snow White pantomime at the Cliffs Pavilion.
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Kara Tointon played the part of student Pauline Young in 2001's first series of Teachers on Channel 4.
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Kara Tointon starred in BBC's Curriculum Bites as a presenter in 2002.
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In 2005, Kara Tointon joined the cast of the BBC soap EastEnders as Dawn Swann, a role she played for 4 years until being written out, along with co-star Ricky Groves, in August 2009.
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In July 2010, she recorded a documentary for BBC Three called Kara Tointon: Don't Call Me Stupid.
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Kara Tointon revealed that she struggles as a dyslexic person, and had a reading age of 12.
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In 2008, Kara Tointon won the Sport Relief special edition of Strictly Come Dancing with Mark Ramprakash.
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Kara Tointon's samba was enough to get her the Glitterball Trophy.
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In September 2010, Kara Tointon was a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing Series 8, partnered with Artem Chigvintsev.
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In week 5, Kara Tointon was awarded the first 10 of the series by Alesha Dixon for her Paso doble.
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Kara Tointon had good scores for the next five weeks of 37,38,36,33 and 38.
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Kara Tointon made it to the final along with Matt Baker and Pamela Stephenson.
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Kara Tointon then went on to win and be crowned champion.
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From May to September 2011, Kara Tointon played Eliza Doolittle in the West End production of Pygmalion at the Garrick Theatre, opposite Rupert Everett as Professor Higgins.
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In spring 2012, Kara Tointon played the role of Evelyn in Alan Ayckbourn's revival of the 1974 play Absent Friends, alongside Reece Shearsmith at the Harold Pinter Theatre, directed by Jeremy Herrin, which received critical acclaim.
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In February 2011, Kara Tointon took part in the BT Red Nose Desert Trek for Comic Relief 2011.
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In 2015 and 2016, Kara Tointon played Rosalie Selfridge in the television drama series Mr Selfridge, the semi-fictional story based on the life of Harry Selfridge.
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In January 2017, Kara Tointon appeared in the ITV period drama The Halcyon, which was set in 1940 at a five-star hotel "at the centre of London Society and a world at war".
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In 2018, Kara Tointon joined 26 other celebrities at Metropolis Studios, to perform an original Christmas song called Rock With Rudolph, written and produced by Grahame and Jack Corbyn.
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In September 2014, Kara Tointon took part in the Great North Run to raise money for Share A Star, a charity set up to help severely unwell children and teenagers.
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In November 2018, Kara Tointon gave birth to her first child, a boy, with her then fiance Marius Jensen.