Bel Powley
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Isobel Dorothy Powley is a British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 actress best known for playing Daisy Millar in the CBBC
CBBC
CBBC is one of two brand names used for the BBC's children's television strands. Between 1985 and 2002, CBBC was the name given to all the BBC's programmes on TV for children aged under 14...

 television series M.I. High. She is the daughter of British actor Mark Powley
Mark Powley
Mark Powley Mark Powley Mark Powley (Born 4 October 1963 Chelmsford, Essex United Kingdom is a British actor.Powley is best known for his work on television, most notably for appearing in 88 episodes of police drama The Bill as P.C Melvin (1987–1990) and as builder Tom in BBC sitcom Next of Kin for...

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Career

From 2007 until 2008 Powley was one of the lead characters in M.I.High, starring in 26 episodes alongside Rachel Petladwala and Moustafa Chousein-Oglou
Moustafa Chousein-Oglou
Moustafa Palazli Chousein-Oglou , sometimes known as Moustafa Palazli is a British actor. He is best known for playing Blane in the BBC children's comedy adventure M.I. High....

. In addition to M.I.High, Bel Powley has also appeared numerous other productions such as Murderland
Murderland
Murderland is a three part British television series created by David Pirie and directed by Catherine Morshead. The series also marks a return to ITV for Robbie Coltrane...

(3 episodes, 2009), Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit (TV serial)
Little Dorrit is a 2008 British television serial directed by Adam Smith, Dearbhla Walsh, and Diarmuid Lawrence. The teleplay by Andrew Davies is based on the serial novel of the same title by Charles Dickens, originally published between 1855 and 1857....

(1 episode, 2008), The Bill
The Bill
The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...

(1 episode, 2008) and The Whistleblowers (1 episode, 2007)

Stage

Powley appeared as Maggie in Tusk Tusk at the Royal Court Theatre
Royal Court Theatre
The Royal Court Theatre is a non-commercial theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is noted for its contributions to modern theatre...

, London, in March 2009. On Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

 she was Thomasina in the 2011 revival of Arcadia
Arcadia (play)
Arcadia is a 1993 play by Tom Stoppard concerning the relationship between past and present and between order and disorder and the certainty of knowledge...

at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Ethel Barrymore Theatre
The Ethel Barrymore Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 243 West 47th Street in midtown-Manhattan, named for actress Ethel Barrymore....

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In October 2011 she returned to the Royal Court as Tilly in Jumpy.

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