Kierston Wareing

Kierston Wareing, (born 7 January 1978)^[1] is an English actress. Her first film role was the lead in Ken Loach's It's a Free World... - for which she was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, followed by a supporting role in Oscar winner Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank - which won the BAFTA award for "Best British Film" and the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Her television roles include miniseries The Runaway, The Take, Luther, and The Shadow Line. She is also known for her role in EastEnders^[2] and guest arc in Hollyoaks.

Career

She starred in Ken Loach's film It's a Free World... as Angie. She has also played in Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank (2009) and Martina Cole's The Take. She has been nominated for one BAFTA award and three British Independent Film Awards.

She played the character Heather in Channel 4's Top Boy and joined the cast of EastEnders in 2012, making her first appearance as Kirsty Branning on 25 December 2012.^[3] She left the show on 9 January 2014. Wareing also played Delilah in the television series The Bible in 2013. Wareing joined the cast of Hollyoaks in summer 2015 as villain Ashley Davidson^[4] with her first episode airing on 7 September 2015. In a shock twist, Ashley was killed by the unknown Gloved Hand Killer as part of a ten-month long storyline which saw the unknown assailant kill various villagers. Ashley's last appearance was aired on 19 October 2015, during the twentieth anniversary week of the show.

Filmography

References

External links

• Kierston Wareing on Twitter
  
• Kierston Wareing at the Internet Movie Database
• Yahoo Movies
• Interview in The Independent
• Article in The Daily Telegraph
• From the official BAFTA website