Louie Anne Batley is an English actress, singer and dancer best known for her role in Hollyoaks

Hollyoaks

Hollyoaks is a long-running British television soap opera, first broadcast on Channel 4 on 23 October 1995. It was originally devised by Phil Redmond, who has also devised shows including Brookside and Grange Hill...

as Sarah Barnes

Sarah Barnes

Sarah Barnes is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, played by Loui Batley. She debuted on-screen during the episode airing on 10 October 2005. Sarah was created by executive producer David Hanson as part of the Barnes family. In 2009 Batley quit the serial in...

. She attended Rivington Primary School and Westholme Upper School in 1998 to 1999, but left due to dance commitments.

Career

Batley had minor roles prior to her role in Hollyoaks, including a part in Julia Davis'

Julia Davis

Julia Davis is an English comedy writer and performer, best known for writing and starring in the BBC Three comedy Nighty Night.-Background:...

 award winning comedy Nighty Night

Nighty Night

Nighty Night is a British dark comedy sitcom written by and starring Julia Davis. It was first broadcast on 6 January 2004 on BBC Three before moving to BBC2....

.

She played the role of Sarah Barnes

Sarah Barnes

Sarah Barnes is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, played by Loui Batley. She debuted on-screen during the episode airing on 10 October 2005. Sarah was created by executive producer David Hanson as part of the Barnes family. In 2009 Batley quit the serial in...

 on Channel 4 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,...

 Hollyoaks

Hollyoaks

Hollyoaks is a long-running British television soap opera, first broadcast on Channel 4 on 23 October 1995. It was originally devised by Phil Redmond, who has also devised shows including Brookside and Grange Hill...

. She has played the role from 2005 until 2009.

Loui was due to appear in the second series of 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...

 show Just the Two of Us, but was dropped after her professional singing partner Russell Watson

Russell Watson

Russell Watson is an English tenor who has released singles and albums of both operatic-style and pop songs. The self-styled "People's Tenor" had been singing since he was a child, and became known after performing at a working men's club...

 quit the show due to health problems. She also performed the opening act/song on 2007's BBC Children In Need, along with co-stars Kevin Sacre

Kevin Sacre

Kevin Sacre is a British actor. He is most famous for his performance as Jake Dean in the British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, a role he played from 2002 to 2010.-Early life:...

, Gerard McCarthy

Gerard McCarthy

Gerard McCarthy is an actor, best known to television viewers for his award-winning performance as Kris Fisher on the British soap opera Hollyoaks from 2006 to 2010, to theatres-goers for his performances on the West End and at Shakespeare's Globe, and to film geeks for his role in Belonging to...

 and Summer Strallen

Summer Strallen

Summer Peta Vaigncourt-Strallen is an English actress who has performed various roles on stage and screen. Her most notable theatre credits include Meg Giry in the West End production of Love Never Dies and Maria Von Trapp in Andrew Lloyd Webber's revival of The Sound of Music at the London...

.

Theatre

Year	Show	Role
?	Broadway Theatre Project Broadway Theater Project The Broadway Theatre Project is an intensive training program for both high school and college-aged students that want to hone their skills in the industry of musical theatre. It was originally founded by Tony Award winner Ann Reinking, under the name The Musical Theatre Project of Tampa...	Soloist
?	Submerged	Soloist
?	The Waltz Medley	Soloist
?	Six Feet Under	Soloist
?	The Nutcracker	Sugar Plum Fairy

Modelling

Year	Type	Designers
2007	Catwalk	Nolita
?	Catwalk	Pimlico
?	Catwalk	Oska
?	Catwalk	Woom Xoom
?	Catwalk	Shirin Guild

Awards

• Won
  • British Freestyle Champion
  • Lyrical Section
  • European Theatrical Stage Dance
    1st Place
  • Carlton TV - Britain's Best Dancer
    2003
• Nominated
  • IDTA Tap & Ballet Awards
  • Le Classique de Danse Awards
• Representative
  • NATD in the Grand Finals

Personal life

Loui is currently dating Simon Lawson, who played Simon Crosby in Hollyoaks

Hollyoaks

Hollyoaks is a long-running British television soap opera, first broadcast on Channel 4 on 23 October 1995. It was originally devised by Phil Redmond, who has also devised shows including Brookside and Grange Hill...

and the pair have set up an acting workshop for up and coming talent. In 2009 they took on the lease of a public house, the Princess Victoria, in London's Earls Court Road.

Her brother, Tobias Batley, is a professional ballet dancer

External links

• Loui Batley's agency