Nicola Kathleen Stapleton was born on 9 August 1974 and is an English actress.
20 Facts About Nicola Stapleton
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Nicola Stapleton is best known for her roles in EastEnders as Mandy Salter and Emmerdale as Danielle Hutch.
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In 1994, Nicola Stapleton quit the role, but in 2011, returned to the role after 17 years.
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Nicola Stapleton was raised near East Street, which runs east to west between the Old Kent Road and Walworth Road in Walworth, south London.
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Nicola Stapleton and her younger brother Vince were born to working class parents: a Scottish mother, Kate, a cleaner, and English father, Vincent Stapleton, who ran a car hire business.
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Nicola Stapleton made her TV debut in the detective series Dempsey and Makepeace, in 1985 and she went on to have roles in feature films such as Little Shop of Horrors ; Hansel and Gretel ; Snow White and Courage Mountain.
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Nicola Stapleton had a minor role in the BBC sitcom Bread.
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Nicola Stapleton is perhaps best known for her role as the wayward Mandy Salter in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, which she played from 1992 to 1994.
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Nicola Stapleton grew tired of all the attention she received from being in such a high-profile show, so she resigned from the role in 1994.
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In June 2011, Nicola Stapleton announced that she would be returning to EastEnders after a 17-year hiatus, and she reappeared as Mandy in an episode broadcast in August that year.
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Nicola Stapleton left the role for a second time at the end of her contract, with Mandy departing in May 2012.
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Nicola Stapleton has appeared in feature films including: Urban Ghost Story ; The Killing Zone ; It Was an Accident ; South West Nine ; Goodbye Charlie Bright ; Lava and Chunky Monkey.
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In 2002, Nicola Stapleton guest-starred in her first of two roles of ITV1's cop show The Bill, She played tough-talking young mum Tina Pope, who eventually becomes the second victim of the Sun Hill Serial Killer.
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Nicola Stapleton is more recently known for playing the prisoner Janine Nebeski in the seventh and eighth series of ITV prison drama Bad Girls.
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Nicola Stapleton acted alongside Birds of a Feather star Linda Robson to form a drug-addicted mother-daughter duo.
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Nicola Stapleton played the role of Louise Parker in the 2007 Lynda La Plante televised mini-series The Commander: The Devil You Know, and appeared in BBC's The Last Enemy in 2008.
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On stage, Nicola Stapleton has appeared in Cockroach Who at The National Theatre; Of Mice and Men, which toured the United Kingdom; Scissor Happy at the Duchess Theatre ; Essex Girls; Corner Boys; and Four Star Hotel; all were shown at the Royal Court Theatre.
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In September 2009, Nicola Stapleton appeared in Channel 4's Hollyoaks Later, as the friend of Cindy Cunningham called Savannah.
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In October 2009, Nicola Stapleton appeared in the UK Film Council funded short film Hands Solo, a mockumentary about the world's most famous deaf porn star.
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Nicola Stapleton maintains that she bought the property out of her earnings as an actress in 2000.