1. Samantha Zoe Womack is an English actress, singer, model and director who has worked in film, television and stage.
43 Facts About Samantha Womack
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Samantha Womack made her name as a pop star, and returned to the public eye in the mid-1990s with her role as Mandy Wilkins in Game On, leading on to roles in the BBC One drama Pie in the Sky and the sitcom Babes in the Wood.
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Samantha Womack has since become known for playing the role of Ronnie Mitchell in EastEnders.
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Samantha Womack played Tanya Porter in Sky One comedy-drama Mount Pleasant from 2013 until the final episode in 2017.
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Samantha Womack has toured across the United Kingdom playing Morticia Addams in the stage musical The Addams Family.
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Samantha Womack lived for a time aboard the QE2 with her choreographer grandmother, Sheila Holt.
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Samantha Womack is the niece of Angie Best, her father's sister and former wife of footballer George Best.
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Samantha Womack finished joint tenth and the song, "A Message to Your Heart", peaked at number 30 on the UK singles chart.
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Samantha Womack has said regarding the experience that her failure in the contest "devastated" her at the time and thought it would spell the end of her career.
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Samantha Womack has called her appearance "ridiculous", in that she was dressed in a pink mini dress while singing about starving children and said the lyrics of the song are "burned into her memory" forever.
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Samantha Womack developed her first love of acting, appearing in episodes of The Bill and Press Gang; in 1993 she appeared in Demob with Griff Rhys Jones and Martin Clunes; and took to the West End stage, replacing Debbie Gibson as Sandy in Grease.
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In 1994 Samantha Womack appeared in the comedy-drama crime series Minder.
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Samantha Womack played Marian Prince, a jazz club chanteuse and friend of Ray Daley in the episode "All Quiet on the West End Front".
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From 1994 to 1998 Samantha Womack played Mandy in the BBC Two sitcom Game On.
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Samantha Womack remained on the show until its end in 1998.
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Samantha Womack then appeared in the pilot for The Grimleys with Jack Dee, and the film Up 'n' Under with Neil Morrissey.
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Samantha Womack then returned to comedy in the sitcom Babes in the Wood co-starring another Sylvia Young Theatre School student, Denise van Outen, it was critically panned despite respectable ratings, and Womack left after the first series.
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In 1999, Samantha Womack played Cinderella in the ITV Christmas pantomime alongside Harry Hill, Alexander Armstrong, Frank Skinner, Paul Merton, Ronnie Corbett and many more.
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Samantha Womack later directed an anti-bullying music video for Liverpool band Just 3, entitled Stand Tall.
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In 2006, Samantha Womack starred in the BBC One comedy Home Again as Ingrid, and as Miss Adelaide in the West End production of the musical Guys and Dolls at London's Piccadilly Theatre, initially with Patrick Swayze and then Miami Vice star Don Johnson.
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Samantha Womack reprised the role at the Sunderland Empire opposite Alex Ferns in 2007.
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Samantha Womack had previously appeared in the soap in a minor role as a girlfriend of Simon Wicks, played by Nick Berry.
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Samantha Womack made her final appearance as Ronnie on 7 July 2011 when the character was sent to prison.
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In 2011 Samantha Womack played the lead role, Ensign Nellie Forbush, a US Navy nurse from Little Rock, Arkansas, in the Lincoln Center production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical South Pacific at the Barbican Theatre in London.
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In March 2013, Samantha Womack starred opposite her husband on stage in the world premiere of Hope at the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool.
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From September 2013, Samantha Womack played the regular role of Tanya in series three of Sky Living's Mount Pleasant.
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Samantha Womack continued in this role until the final episode in 2017.
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Altogether, Samantha Womack appeared in 25 episodes as Tanya Dawson.
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In 2017 Samantha Womack reprised the role in a smaller appearance in Kingsman: The Golden Circle.
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In 2017, Samantha Womack toured as Morticia Adams in the musical-comedy Addams Family as Morticia around the UK and Ireland.
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Samantha Womack was announced to reprise the role in 2021 for a tour around UK and Ireland, however she did not reprise the role on tour for unknown reasons.
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In November 2011, it was reported that Samantha Womack was in the running, alongside Dannii Minogue to become a judge on the 2012 series of Britain's Got Talent.
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Samantha Womack has since confirmed that she was offered a place on the judging panel and that she had a meeting with Cowell in Los Angeles.
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Samantha Womack has said that although she was grateful, she rejected the offer as "it's just not me".
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Samantha Womack included an in depth conversation about her life and career.
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In February 2020, it was announced that Samantha Womack would be taking part in the challenge for Sport Relief.
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Samantha Womack began a relationship with Liverpool 1 co-star Mark Samantha Womack.
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Mark Samantha Womack has a son, Michael Samantha Womack, from a previous marriage.
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In 2009, Samantha Womack took her husband's surname and began to use it professionally.
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Since 2019, Samantha Womack has been in a relationship with Coronation Street and Emmerdale actor, Oliver Farnworth.
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Samantha Womack is best friends with her former EastEnders co-star Rita Simons, who played her sister Roxy Mitchell.
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On 8 August 2022, in a post paying tribute to Dame Olivia Newton-John following her death from breast cancer, Samantha Womack revealed on Twitter that she had been diagnosed with the disease herself.
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In December 2022, Samantha Womack announced that she was now cancer free.