Emma Louise Barton is an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 actress. She played Honey Mitchell

Honey Mitchell

Susan "Honey" Mitchell is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Emma Barton. She made her first appearance in the show on 22 November 2005. It was reported on 19 April 2008 that she had been axed from EastEnders, and her last appearance was on 2 September 2008...

 in EastEnders

EastEnders

EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...

from November 2005 to September 2008.

Before her role in EastEnders, Barton appeared in Spooks

Spooks

Spooks is a British television drama series that originally aired on BBC One from 13 May 2002 – 23 October 2011, consisting of 10 series. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, as the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a...

and trod the boards in plays including Grease

Grease (musical)

Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The musical is named for the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as the greasers. The musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School , follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of love,...

, Loveshack and Thoroughly Modern Millie.

Barton attended Horndean Community School

Horndean Technology College

Horndean Technology College is a large school, situated in the town of Horndean in Hampshire, UK. The school has formerly been called Horndean Community School, Horndean Secondary School and Horndean Bilateral. It is also sometimes informally referred to as Barton Cross, after the road on which its...

 in Hampshire from 1989 to 1993, and then trained at the Guildford School of Acting

Guildford School of Acting

Guildford School of Acting is a drama school located in Guildford, Surrey, England. It is an affiliate of the University of Surrey and is an accredited member of the National Council for Drama Training and The Conference of Drama Schools.-Overview:...

, graduating in 1998.

It was announced on 19 April 2008 that Barton would be leaving EastEnders in the summer of 2008. Her character was one of several written out by executive producer Diederick Santer

Diederick Santer

Diederick Santer is a British television producer and is best known for his work on the popular BBC television soap opera EastEnders, a post which he assumed on 23 October 2006 and left on 1 March 2010...

 that year.

On the 14 November 2008 Barton sang live for Children in Need

Children in Need

Children in Need is an annual British charity appeal organised by the BBC. Since 1980 it has raised over £500 million. The highlight of the Children in Need appeal is an annual telethon, held in November. A teddy bear named "Pudsey Bear" fronts the campaign, while Terry Wogan is a long...

 in the BBC studios in London. She starred in the titular role of Snow White in the Marlowe Theatre

Marlowe Theatre

The Marlowe Theatre is a major 1200-seat theatre in Canterbury, England.It closed in March 2009 for redevelopment and a brand-new Marlowe Theatre re-opened to audiences on 4 October 2011.-Name:...

's Canterbury

Canterbury

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 pantomime

Pantomime

Pantomime — not to be confused with a mime artist, a theatrical performer of mime—is a musical-comedy theatrical production traditionally found in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Jamaica, South Africa, India, Ireland, Gibraltar and Malta, and is mostly performed during the...

 from December 2008-January 2009 alongside Stephen Mulhern

Stephen Mulhern

Stephen Daniel Mulhern is a British TV presenter, entertainer, and former magician. He began presenting in the studio on CITV in May 1998 and became a leading presenter until he left in August 2002. He has presented a number of shows, including SMTV Live, Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown and...

. From March to November 2009 she was touring the UK in the stage production of Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

, alongside Jimmy Osmond

Jimmy Osmond

James Arthur "Jimmy" Osmond is an American singer, actor, and businessman.-Biography:Jimmy Osmond is the youngest of his siblings and an occasional member of their musical group, The Osmonds. He is the ninth and last child of George and Olive Osmond, and his siblings are Virl, Tom, Alan, Wayne,...

 and Twinnie Lee Moore

Twinnie Lee Moore

Twinnie Lee Moore is a British actress who has been seen in West End ensembles and starred in a touring version of the musical Chicago. She appeared on stage was in Flashdance The Musical at the Shaftesbury Theatre, which closed on January 15th...

, playing Roxie Hart

Roxie Hart

Roxanne "Roxie" Hart is a fictional showgirl in various adaptations of the same story. She first appeared in the 1926 play Chicago written by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins. Watkins was inspired by the real-life unrelated 1924 murder trials of Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner, which she covered for...

.

In June 2009, Emma Barton opened two BreastHealth UK clinics in the Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

 area.

In December 2009, Emma Barton will be playing the part of Jack in Jack and the Beanstalk at Devonshire Park Theatre in Eastbourne and early in 2010 will be touring with the Musical "Chicago", taking the lead role of Roxie Hart.

External links

• Emma Barton at bbc.co.uk
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