Hetti Bywater is an English actress. She is known for her minor roles in Doctors and Casualty

Casualty (TV series)

Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...

 and in November 2011, she was cast as Lucy Beale

Lucy Beale

Lucy Katherine Beale is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Eva Brittin-Snell from 1993 to 1996, Casey Anne Rothery from 1996 until 2004, Melissa Suffield from 2004 to 2010 and Hetti Bywater from 2012 onwards. Lucy was introduced in December 1993 as the newborn baby...

 in the BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 soap opera

Soap opera

A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...

 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...

.

Career

Bywater, who is seventeen years old, has had roles in Doctors, Casualty

Casualty (TV series)

Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...

, the 2011 film St George's Day and the lead part in the 2011 film Counting Backwords.

EastEnders

Lucy Beale has been part of EastEnders since December 1993. She was played by Casey Anne Rothery

Casey Anne Rothery

Casey Anne Rothery is a former child actress. From the age of three to ten years old, she played Lucy Beale in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.Originally from Mottingham, South East London, she now lives in Marbella....

 until 2004 with Melissa Suffield

Melissa Suffield

Melissa Hollie Suffield is a British actress from London, best known for her role in the BBC soap opera EastEnders as Lucy Beale. Her first appearance on the show was 28 October 2004 and her last on 27 August 2010.-Career:...

 taking over the role thereafter. In May 2010 it was announced that Suffield had been axed from the show allegedly due to "unruly behaviour" off-set. In June it was reported that the character would be recast. Nothing was heard about the new actress until 14 November 2011, when it was announced the character would be returning to EastEnders in January 2012 with Bywater taking over the role. Of her casting, Bywater said "I'm really excited to be joining such an iconic show as EastEnders, especially becoming part of the Beale household. I'm looking forward to finding out what's in store for Lucy and seeing what she's going to get up to when she returns to Walford."

Bywater's casting with EastEnders was supposed to be kept secret however the news was leaked when she was spotted on location filming the funeral scenes for long-standing EastEnders character Pat Evans

Pat Evans

Patricia Louise "Pat" Evans is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders. She has been played by Pam St. Clement since 12 June 1986, just over a year after the show first aired...

 (Pam St Clement). Her agent, Mark Jermin commented: "We did some workshops for the BBC, but we weren't told what the character was. When we found out, and that Hetti had been cast, we started popping champagne, and called her up and told her to go shopping and splash out. She is a really good actor and we aren't surprised."

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2011	Casualty Casualty (TV series) Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...	Sarah Barker	1 Episode
	Doctors	Angelica Batter
2011	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...	Lucy Beale Lucy Beale Lucy Katherine Beale is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Eva Brittin-Snell from 1993 to 1996, Casey Anne Rothery from 1996 until 2004, Melissa Suffield from 2004 to 2010 and Hetti Bywater from 2012 onwards. Lucy was introduced in December 1993 as the newborn baby...	Series regular; ongoing role

Film

Year	Title	Role
2011	St George's Day	Unknown
	Counting Backwords	Lead role