Louisa Clein was born on 6 July 1979 and is a British actress, known for portraying the role of Maya Stepney in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale.
15 Facts About Louisa Clein
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Louisa Clein's mother is from Amsterdam, Netherlands and is a professional violinist.
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Louisa Clein has a sister called Natalie, a professional cellist.
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In 2001, Louisa Clein made her television debut as Charlie Deed in the BBC series Judge John Deed, which ran until 2007.
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Louisa Clein has appeared in shows such as Holby City, Doctors, Casualty, New Tricks, Midsomer Murders, Fanny Hill and played the role of Zelda Kay in ITV's Island at War in 2004.
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In 2002, Louisa Clein appeared with her sister Natalie at the Holocaust Memorial Day concert and read extracts from her cousin Julia Pascal's Holocaust Trilogy.
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Louisa Clein received critical acclaim for her 2005 performance as Anna in The Rubinstein Kiss.
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In 2006, Louisa Clein assumed the role of the radical pianist Harriet Cohen in Dearest Tania scripted by Duncan Honeybourne.
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Louisa Clein performed in the Almeida Theatre's 2008 production of Waste.
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In summer 2009, Louisa Clein performed in the Sylvia Plath play Three Women at the Edinburgh Festival.
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In 2010, Louisa Clein toured in an adaptation of the Oscar Wilde story Lord Arthur Savile's Crime as Sybil Merton with Lee Mead as her leading man, Lord Arthur.
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In July 2010, Louisa Clein starred in The Railway Children in the former Waterloo Eurostar Terminal in London, and at King's Cross Theatre in 2015.
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In March 2018, Louisa Clein began portraying the role of Maya Stepney in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale.
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At the 2019 Inside Soap Awards, Louisa Clein received the award for Best Bad Girl.
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In 2024, Louisa Clein was part of the cast of the West End venue for "Letters, Lights and Love", which served as a fundraiser for the reconstruction of Kibbutz Be'eri following the October 7 Hamas-Led attack on Israel, during which 120 of its residents were murdered.