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Sarah-Jane Potts Born 30 August 1976 [citation needed]
Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK[1]Occupation Actress Spouse Tony Denman (2002-?)(divorced) Sarah-Jane Potts (born 30 August 1976), is an English actress, best known for her roles as Saint (Sarah) in Sugar Rush, as Ellie, Abs' on/off girlfriend on Casualty[2] and as Jo Lipsett in Waterloo Road. Potts is also the sister of actor Andrew-Lee Potts,[2] best known for his part as Connor Temple in Primeval. She is currently in Holby City, playing a different character to the one she played in Casualty.
Early in her career she noted that "In the three years I have been acting I have spent most of the time looking dirty, scruffy, ill or tarty".[3]
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Personal life
Potts attended Bradford's Scala Kids stage school with her brother Andrew.[1] As a teenager she worked in a greasy spoon cafe in Bradford.[4] She left school during her A-levels to star in Meat.[4] From 1999-2001 she dated Erik Palladino. They met at a film festival in Sweden during the summer of '99 and at the end of the year she moved to LA to live with him.[5][6] She met her ex-husband, Tony Denman, when filming National Lampoon's Barely Legal and they were married in June 2002.[7][8] She has a son, named Buster Alan Denman, born 2004.[2]
Filmography
Cinema
- My Son the Fanatic (1997), Madelaine
- Woundings (1998), Louise
- Mauvaise passe (1999), Liz
- Wonderland (1999), Melanie
- Straydogs (1999), Anna
- Five Seconds to Spare (1999), Twig
- Young Blades (2001), Radegonde/Anne
- National Lampoon's Barely Legal (2003), Ashley
- Breaking Dawn (2004), Anna
- Kinky Boots (2005), Lauren
- Heart of a Dragon (2008), Amanda
TV films
- The Canterville Ghost (1997), Virginia Otis
- Meat (1994), Myra
- Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle (2003), Breeta Byrne
Television
- Children's Ward (1989)
- Alison (1996)
- Bramwell (1996)[3]
- Peak Practice (1996), Maddie Taylor - in the episode A New Life
- The Locksmith (1997), Alice Pierce
- The Broker's Man (1997), Harriet Potter
- Dalziel and Pascoe (1999), Sophie Richmond - in the episode Time to Go
- Felicity (2001–02), Molly
- NYPD Blue (2002), Elizabeth Garner - in the episode Meat Me in the Park
- Off Centre (2002), Julie - in the episode Cockfight
- Deep Cover (2002), Georgia Haley
- Keen Eddie (2003–04), Audry
- American Dreams (2003)
- Sugar Rush (2006), Saint
- Missed (BBC HD Film Shorts) (2007), Emma
- Casualty (2008), Ellie Bridges - in the episode Interventions
- Emmerdale (2008), Leanne Grounding
- Waterloo Road (2009–2010), Jo Lipsett
- Reunited (2010), Fran
- Zen (2011), Cinzia Miletti
- Holby City (2011–Present), Eddi McKee
References
- ^ a b "Pair are class act in TV ‘Road’ show". Bradford Telegraph & Argus. 5 November 2009. http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/4723872.Pair_are_class_act_in_TV____Road____show/. Retrieved 17 January 2011.
- ^ a b c "Andy Newton Lee and Sarah-Jane Potts". OK! Magazine. 24 June 2008. http://www.ok.co.uk/food/view/1510/Andy-Newton-Lee-and-Sarah-Jane-Potts/. Retrieved 17 January 2011.
- ^ a b "I was so ugly people couldn't eat; INTERVIEW; Sarah Jane Potts.". Daily Mirror. 20 May 1996. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/I+was+so+ugly+people+couldn%27t+eat%3B+INTERVIEW%3B+Sarah+Jane+Potts.-a061320186. Retrieved 17 January 2011.
- ^ a b "Surprise loo role made me squirm". Daily Mirror. 21 October 1997. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Surprise+loo+role+made+me+squirm.-a061065603. Retrieved 17 January 2011.
- ^ De Witt, Barbara (11 September 2000). "Trendy Twosomes: Celebrity couples attend the awards". Daily News (Los Angeles). http://www.thefreelibrary.com/TRENDY+TWOSOMES+CELEBRITY+COUPLES+ATTEND+THE+AWARDS.-a083399898. Retrieved 17 January 2011.
- ^ Weeks, Janet (20 January 2001). "Tough Stuff". TV Guide (US).
- ^ Riggs, Thomas (2006). Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television. 71. Gale. p. 47.
- ^ "Actor has hopes for 'dorm daze'". Saint Paul Pioneer Press. 28 September 2003.
External links
- Sarah-Jane Potts at the Internet Movie Database
- "Interview with "Heart of a Dragon" actress Sarah Jane Potts". Reach Magazine. 30 October 2010. http://reachmag.ca/2010/10/30/interview-with-heart-of-a-dragon-actress-sarah-jane-potts/. Retrieved 17 January 2011.
- "Actress takes on the Great Wall Of China with the Heart Of A Dragon (video interview)". Women In Film and Television Vancouver. YouTube. 7 November 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOkLOj5CJD0&feature=player_embedded. Retrieved 17 January 2011.
Categories:- Living people
- English film actors
- 1976 births
- People from Bradford
- English television actors
- English actor stubs
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