1. Lenora Isabella Crichlow was born on 4 January 1985 and is a British actress.
24 Facts About Lenora Crichlow
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Lenora Crichlow became known for her starring roles as Maria "Sugar" Sweet in the Channel 4 comedy-drama series Sugar Rush, Annie Sawyer in the BBC Three supernatural drama series Being Human, and Shania Andrews in the 2012 sports drama film Fast Girls.
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Lenora Crichlow was born 4 January 1985 and raised in Harlesden, London.
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Lenora Crichlow is one of three siblings born to a biracial couple, Port of Spain, Trinidad-born Frank Crichlow and his partner, Lucy Addington, a white Englishwoman.
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Lenora Crichlow's father owned the Mangrove restaurant in Notting Hill, which was frequented by stars such as Jimi Hendrix and Vanessa Redgrave.
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Lenora Crichlow made her first feature film appearance in the low-budget horror film Wilderness, released in 2006, and her first television appearance in the ITV police drama series The Bill.
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Lenora Crichlow came to public prominence starring as Maria "Sugar" Sweet in Channel 4's adaptation of the Julie Burchill novel Sugar Rush, which won the 2006 International Emmy Award in the Children And Young People category.
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Lenora Crichlow then had a role in BBC One's feature-length drama Kiss of Death in 2008, starring alongside Danny Dyer.
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In March 2010, Lenora Crichlow returned to the world of Doctor Who in the audio release of The Architects of History, playing a new character, Rachel Cooper, a companion of the Seventh Doctor in an alternate timeline.
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Lenora Crichlow then played the role of Portia in a performance of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, for the BBC's educational platform Bitesize.
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In November 2008, the BBC announced Lenora Crichlow had been cast as Annie Sawyer, a ghost in a flat shared with a vampire and a werewolf, in the BBC Three series Being Human, replacing Andrea Riseborough who had played the character in the pilot.
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In 2011, Lenora Crichlow won the TV Actress of the Year Award at the annual Glamour Awards for her work on the show.
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Lenora Crichlow continued to play the role of Annie in the programme until deciding to depart following the last episode of the fourth series, which aired in March 2012.
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Lenora Crichlow later narrated the audiobook of Simon Guerrier's tie-in novel The Road.
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In November 2009, Lenora Crichlow played the part of Alice Jackson in Collision, an ITV1 drama which ran over five consecutive nights.
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From January to February 2010, Lenora Crichlow appeared as aspiring fashion designer Ali Redcliffe in the BBC One romantic comedy miniseries Material Girl.
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That same month, Lenora Crichlow presented Nelson Mandela: One Incredible Life on BBC Three.
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In 2011, Lenora Crichlow played the character of Police Sergeant Lily Thomson in the BBC drama Death in Paradise.
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In January 2011, Lenora Crichlow appeared in six short accompaniments for The Tudors airings on BBC America.
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Lenora Crichlow narrated The Gatwick Baby: Abandoned at Birth, shown on BBC Three on 13 April 2011.
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In February 2013, Lenora Crichlow starred as Victoria Skillane in "White Bear", the second episode in the second series of Charlie Brooker's critically acclaimed anthology series Black Mirror.
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In February 2014, it was announced that Crichlow had been cast as Stephie Bennett in the NBC comedy series A to Z The series was given a full season order, but was ultimately cancelled.
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Lenora Crichlow next appeared in the Kevin Pollak-directed comedy-drama The Late Bloomer, alongside JK Simmons, Brittany Snow, and Johnny Simmons.
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Lenora Crichlow was then cast as Dina Clark in the ABC procedural crime drama series Deception, alongside Jack Cutmore-Scott and Amaury Nolasco.