Kristy Bruce is a British

United Kingdom

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 actress.

Kristy was born in London

London

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. She attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School

Sylvia Young Theatre School

Sylvia Young Theatre School is an independent fee-paying stage school, in Westminster, London, named after its founder and Principal, Sylvia Young.-Outline:...

. Her acting career began in 1991, when aged 7 she appeared in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

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Supporting roles in the Vicar Of Dibley, The Detectives

The Detectives

The Detectives is a British comedy television series, starring Jasper Carrott, Robert Powell, and George Sewell. It was a spoof of police dramas, which were numerous in the 1990s, and it was aired on BBC One...

, Mike and Angelo

Mike and Angelo

Mike and Angelo is a sci-fi TV sitcom series that ran on CITV between 16 March 1989 and 7 March 2000. It centres on Angelo , an alien who came from another world during the first series; the portal from his world being that of a...

and the TV adaptation of Danielle Steel

Danielle Steel

Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel , better known as Danielle Steel, is an American romantic novelist and author of mainstream dramas....

's Jewels were followed by regular roles 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...

 Schools Programme Magic Grandad

Magic Grandad

Magic Grandad was an educational programme which originally aired on BBC Two Schools section Watch during 1995. The show saw Magic Grandad played by Geoffrey Bayldon take his young grandchildren, played by Kristy Bruce and James Moreno, back in time to such historical moments as the Great fire of...

and CBBC

CBBC

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's The Demon Headmaster

The Demon Headmaster (TV series)

The Demon Headmaster is a British television series based on the children's books by Gillian Cross of the same name. Made for CBBC, the drama was first broadcast between 1996 and 1998...

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Kristy has continued to have acting roles in 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...

in which she starred as four different characters in 1992, 1997, 1999 and in 2003.

Kristy has appeared in Holby City

Holby City

Holby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999...

and Green Wing

Green Wing

Green Wing is a British sitcom set in the fictional East Hampton Hospital. It was created by the same team behind the sketch show Smack the Pony, led by Victoria Pile, and stars Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan and Julian Rhind-Tutt....

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She also appeared as Kaz in E4's The Last Chancers, which aired in December 2004.

In September 2008, she again appeared in The Bill as drug addict Lizzie Hutchings. In that same month, she also appeared as Jayden in the BBC series Mutual Friends

Mutual Friends

Mutual Friends is a British comedy drama television series broadcast in six episodes on BBC One in 2008. The series starred Marc Warren, Alexander Armstrong, Keeley Hawes, Sarah Alexander, Claire Rushbrook, Emily Joyce, Naomi Bentley and Joshua Sarphie as a group of old friends whose lives are...

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In 2009, Kristy appeared briefly as Laura in the film The Spell, and could also be seen in My Almost Famous Family

My Almost Famous Family

My Almost Famous Family is a British children's television series produced by the BBC and originally aired between 12 September to 21 November 2009 on CBBC on BBC Two....

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In November 2011 Kristy will appear in an adaptation of the Henry James novella

Novella

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 The Turn Of The Screw

The Turn of the Screw

The Turn of the Screw is a novella written by Henry James. Originally published in 1898, it is ostensibly a ghost story.Due to its ambiguous content, it became a favourite text of academics who subscribe to New Criticism. The novella has had differing interpretations, often mutually exclusive...

at the Barons Court Theatre

Barons Court Theatre

Barons Court Theatre is a small theatre of only 57 cinema style seats located in the basement of The Curtains Up public house in Comeragh Road in West London...

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