Rhea Bailey is an English actress. She is the younger sister of singer Corinne Bailey Rae

Corinne Bailey Rae

Corinne Bailey Rae is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist from Leeds, who released her debut album Corinne Bailey Rae in February 2006....

. Her father is Black-Kittitian

Saint Kitts and Nevis

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 and her mother is White English.

Her television roles include Chloe Simms on the soap opera Crossroads, former student Yasmin Deardon in BBC school drama Waterloo Road

Waterloo Road (TV series)

Waterloo Road is an award-winning British television drama series, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 March 2006. Set in a troubled comprehensive school in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, the series focuses on the lives of the school's teacher and students, and confronts social...

, Jade in the Torchwood

Torchwood

Torchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies. The series is a spin-off from Davies's 2005 revival of the long-running science fiction programme Doctor Who. The show has shifted its broadcast channel each series to reflect its growing audience, moving from...

 episode "Out of Time

Out of Time (Torchwood)

"Out of Time" is an episode in the British science fiction television series Torchwood, which was broadcast on 17 December 2006. It is the tenth episode of the first series.- Synopsis :...

", and Jazz in the movie Credo

Credo (film)

Credo, also known as The Devil's Curse, is a 2008 low-budget psychological horror film directed and produced by Toni Harman and written by Alex Wakeford. It stars MyAnna Buring, Clayton Watson, and Nathalie Pownall, Rhea Bailey, and Mark Joseph as five British college students that find themselves...

 (also known as The Devil's Curse).

Between June 2008 and August 2010 she appeared as Police Constable Mel Ryder in the ITV

ITV

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 police drama The Bill

The Bill

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. Bailey has previously played a police officer in her role as DC Lisa Goodall in the ITV series Blue Murder

Blue Murder (UK TV series)

Blue Murder was a British crime drama television series based in Manchester. Shown on ITV from 2003 until 2009 when it was axed by the Network, it starred Caroline Quentin as DCI Janine Lewis.-Outline:...

.

Films

Year	Film	Role Mel	Notes
2008	Credo Credo (film) Credo, also known as The Devil's Curse, is a 2008 low-budget psychological horror film directed and produced by Toni Harman and written by Alex Wakeford. It stars MyAnna Buring, Clayton Watson, and Nathalie Pownall, Rhea Bailey, and Mark Joseph as five British college students that find themselves...	Jazz	Known in the US as The Devil's Curse

TV

Year	Show	Role	Notes
2000	Cold Feet Cold Feet Cold Feet is a British comedy-drama television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network. The series was created and principally written by Mike Bullen as a follow-up to his award-winning 1997 Comedy Premiere of the same name. The storyline follows three couples experiencing the...	Julie Clements	2 episodes: 3.4 & 3.5
	Children's Ward Children's Ward Children's Ward is a British children's television drama series produced by Granada Television and broadcast on the ITV network as part of its Children's ITV strand on weekday afternoons...	Emma	Recurring
2001–2002	Crossroads	Chloe Simms	Series regular
2003	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...	Liz Merryman	1 episode: "End of the Line: Part 1"
2004	Donovan	Donna
	Doctors	Rebecca Seagrove	1 episode: "The Birds and the Bees"
2006	Eleventh Hour	Housing Estate Mother	1 episode: "Resurrection"
	Waterloo Road Waterloo Road (TV series) Waterloo Road is an award-winning British television drama series, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 March 2006. Set in a troubled comprehensive school in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, the series focuses on the lives of the school's teacher and students, and confronts social...	Yasmin Deardon	Recurring; 5 episodes
	Torchwood Torchwood Torchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies. The series is a spin-off from Davies's 2005 revival of the long-running science fiction programme Doctor Who. The show has shifted its broadcast channel each series to reflect its growing audience, moving from...	Jade	1 episode: "Out of Time Out of Time (Torchwood) "Out of Time" is an episode in the British science fiction television series Torchwood, which was broadcast on 17 December 2006. It is the tenth episode of the first series.- Synopsis :... "
2006–2007	Blue Murder Blue Murder (UK TV series) Blue Murder was a British crime drama television series based in Manchester. Shown on ITV from 2003 until 2009 when it was axed by the Network, it starred Caroline Quentin as DCI Janine Lewis.-Outline:...	DC Lisa Goodall	Series Regular
2007	Doctors	Stella Parkman	Recurring; 3 episodes: "An Inconsolable Loss", "Hammer Blow" & "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
2008 — 2010	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...	PC Mel Ryder	Series regular

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