Tracy Brabin
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Tracy Brabin is an English actress and television writer
.
Brabin is best remembered for her roles as clumsy waitress Sandra opposite David Jason
in A Bit of a Do
(YTV
), Tricia Armstrong in Coronation Street
from 1994 to 1997 and Ginny in Richard Harris
's Outside Edge
. She has also appeared in EastEnders
as Roxy Drake, The Ghost Hunter
as Mrs Oliver (BBC television), and Love + Hate
directed by Dominic Savage. In 2006, she appeared in an episode of Midsomer Murders
entitled "Dead Letters". In 2008, she began to appear in a series of commercials for supermarket chain Sainsbury's playing the role of Sarah, a mother-of-two and Sainsbury's employee who does her weekly shopping at the store.
Brabin has written for Heartbeat, Family Affairs
, Crossroads, Tracy Beaker, and was team writer on Hollyoaks
for two years. With two feature films in development with Sally Hibbin at Parallax East, she has also written Shameless
for Company Pictures
and has been a team writer for three series onSeacht - nominated for Best Youth Programme Irish Film and Television Awards 2011. More recently she has been working with mentor Elizabeth Karlsen, producer of Made in Dagenham
, on a romantic comedy feature called Father August for the prestigious She Writes programme celebrated at BAFTA March 2011.
She appeared in an episode of Casualty aired on 18 April 2009 as April who died as a result of an accident. The role was her second appearance in the series, having played a different character two years earlier. She recently took the lead role in Shelagh Stevenson's' The Long Road
at Curve theatre in Leicester directed by Adel Al Salloum.
August 2011 she played Maggie, a mother who comes to realise she is one of a race of aliens, in artist Shezad Dawoods first feature, the sci-fi art house film A Piercing Brightness
Screenwriting
Screenwriting is the art and craft of writing scripts for mass media such as feature films, television productions or video games. It is a freelance profession....
.
Brabin is best remembered for her roles as clumsy waitress Sandra opposite David Jason
David Jason
Sir David John White, OBE , better known by his stage name David Jason, is an English BAFTA award-winning actor. He is best known as the main character Derek "Del Boy" Trotter on the BBC sit-com Only Fools and Horses from 1981, the voice of Mr Toad in The Wind In The Willows and as detective Jack...
in A Bit of a Do
A Bit of a Do
A Bit of a Do was a British comedy drama series based on the books by David Nobbs. The show starred David Jason and was aired on ITV in 1989. It was made for the ITV network by Yorkshire Television.The show was set in a fictional Yorkshire town...
(YTV
Yorkshire Television
Yorkshire Television, now officially known as ITV Yorkshire and sometimes unofficially abbreviated to YTV, is a British television broadcaster and the contractor for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network...
), Tricia Armstrong in Coronation Street
Coronation Street
Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...
from 1994 to 1997 and Ginny in Richard Harris
Richard Harris (television writer)
Richard Harris is a prolific British television writer, most active from the early 1960s to the mid-1990s. He writes primarily for the crime and detecitve genres, having contributed episodes of series like The Avengers, The Saint, The Sweeney, Armchair Mystery Theatre, and Target...
's Outside Edge
Outside Edge
Outside Edge is a play by Richard Harris about a cricket team trying to win a game of cricket whilst sorting out their various marital problems.-Plot:...
. She has also appeared 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...
as Roxy Drake, The Ghost Hunter
The Ghost Hunter
The Ghost Hunter is a general name for a series of novels by Ivan Jones about a Victorian shoe-shine boy who has become a ghost. The boy, called William Povey, is trying to escape from the evil and obsessive Ghost Hunter, Mrs Croker...
as Mrs Oliver (BBC television), and Love + Hate
Love + Hate
Love + Hate is a 2005 drama film directed by Dominic Savage.-Plot:Love + Hate is a modern love story set across the racial divide in a Northern town. Adam has been brought up in a home and community that fosters racism. Naseema is a girl from the same town...
directed by Dominic Savage. In 2006, she appeared in an episode of Midsomer Murders
Midsomer Murders
Midsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997. The show is based on the books by Caroline Graham, as originally adapted by Anthony Horowitz. The lead character is DCI Tom Barnaby who works for Causton CID. When Nettles left the show in 2011 he was...
entitled "Dead Letters". In 2008, she began to appear in a series of commercials for supermarket chain Sainsbury's playing the role of Sarah, a mother-of-two and Sainsbury's employee who does her weekly shopping at the store.
Brabin has written for Heartbeat, Family Affairs
Family Affairs
Family Affairs was a British soap opera broadcast on Five, from 1997 to 2005. It was the second programme to be broadcast on the channel on 30 March 1997, the channel's launch night...
, Crossroads, Tracy Beaker, and was team writer on 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...
for two years. With two feature films in development with Sally Hibbin at Parallax East, she has also written Shameless
Shameless
Shameless is a British television drama series set in Manchester on the fictional Chatsworth council estate. Produced by Company Pictures for Channel 4, the first seven-episode series aired weekly on Tuesday nights at 10pm from 13 January 2004...
for Company Pictures
Company Pictures
Company Pictures is an independent British television production company which has produced drama programming for many broadcasters. Their productions have included:*drama series Wild at Heart for ITV1, written by Ashley Pharoah....
and has been a team writer for three series onSeacht - nominated for Best Youth Programme Irish Film and Television Awards 2011. More recently she has been working with mentor Elizabeth Karlsen, producer of Made in Dagenham
Made in Dagenham
Made in Dagenham is a 2010 British film directed by Nigel Cole. The film stars Sally Hawkins, Miranda Richardson, Rosamund Pike and Jaime Winstone. It dramatises the Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968 that aimed for equal pay for women...
, on a romantic comedy feature called Father August for the prestigious She Writes programme celebrated at BAFTA March 2011.
She appeared in an episode of Casualty aired on 18 April 2009 as April who died as a result of an accident. The role was her second appearance in the series, having played a different character two years earlier. She recently took the lead role in Shelagh Stevenson's' The Long Road
The Long Road
The Long Road is the second major album by Canadian rock band Nickelback, released on September 23, 2003.The album was certified 3x Platinum by the RIAA in March 2005 and it had sold 3,591,000 copies as of April 2011. It has sold over 5 million copies worldwide and in 2003 only the album sold 2...
at Curve theatre in Leicester directed by Adel Al Salloum.
August 2011 she played Maggie, a mother who comes to realise she is one of a race of aliens, in artist Shezad Dawoods first feature, the sci-fi art house film A Piercing Brightness
Personal life
She married her long term partner Richard Platt in July 2005. The couple have had two children called Lois and Nancy.Television
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(2009) April - Sainsbury's Ad Campaign (2008-) Sarah
- The BillThe BillThe 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...
(2008) Isabel Edgar - Doctors (2008) Amanda Webster
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(2007) Vee Kitching - The Good Samaritan (2007) Gloria
- The Real Extras (2007) Herself
- Doctors (2006) Tina Machin
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(2006) Tina Roebottom - Midsomer MurdersMidsomer MurdersMidsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997. The show is based on the books by Caroline Graham, as originally adapted by Anthony Horowitz. The lead character is DCI Tom Barnaby who works for Causton CID. When Nettles left the show in 2011 he was...
(2006) Ruth Chalk (1 episode, 2006) - Rosemary & ThymeRosemary & ThymeRosemary & Thyme is a British television mystery series that starred Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris as gardening detectives Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme. The show began on ITV in 2003, and the third series ended in August 2007...
(2006) Nicola Spicer - An Audience with Coronation Street (2006) Herself
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(2005) Stella Howard - Love + HateLove + HateLove + Hate is a 2005 drama film directed by Dominic Savage.-Plot:Love + Hate is a modern love story set across the racial divide in a Northern town. Adam has been brought up in a home and community that fosters racism. Naseema is a girl from the same town...
(2005) Gaynor - Coronation Street: The Duckworth Family Album (2005) Herself
- Heartbeat (2004) Sandra Tetley
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(2004) Karen Taylor - Is Harry on the Boat?Is Harry on the Boat?Is Harry on the Boat? was a 2001 British made for TV film, based on the lives of holiday reps in Ibiza. A television drama series then followed, airing on Sky One from 2002 to 2003.-Background:It's based on the book of the same name by Colin Butts...
(2003) Isobel - The BillThe BillThe 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...
(2002) Pam - Silent WitnessSilent WitnessSilent Witness is a BBC crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes. First broadcast in February 1996, the series is still airing to the present day, with a fifteenth series expected to air in January 2012. The series was...
(2002) Nina Palmer - Nice Guy EddieNice Guy EddieFor the Tarantino film character, see Reservoir Dogs"Nice Guy Eddie" is a song by English Britpop band Sleeper, written by the band's vocalist and guitarist Louise Wener. It was the third single to be released from their second album, The It Girl, in 1996 . It peaked at number ten on the UK Singles...
(2002) Stephanie - Holby CityHolby CityHolby 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...
(2001) Lucy Gartside - EastEndersEastEndersEastEnders 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...
(2001) Roxy Drake - Doctors (2000) Lucy Carlton
- The BillThe BillThe 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...
(2000) Mrs. Sanderson - Where the Heart IsWhere the Heart Is (1997 TV series)Where the Heart Is is a British television drama series set in the fictional town Skelthwaite.First shown in 1997, it was created by Ashley Pharoah and Vicky Featherstone...
" (2000) Stella Taylor - GhosthunterGhosthunterGhosthunter is a video game based on ghost hunting developed by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. The game was released on the PlayStation 2 in Europe on December 5, 2003, North America on August 17, 2004.-Plot:...
(2000) Mrs. Oliver - SunburnSunburn (TV series)Sunburn is a British television series that followed the lives of a group of British holiday reps. It was broadcast on BBC One between 16 January 1999 and 1 May 2000, running for two series of six and eight episodes respectively. The first was set and filmed in Cyprus and the second in Algarve...
(1999) Sheila Adams - Mayday Mayday (1995) Sylvia Redpath
- Coronation StreetCoronation StreetCoronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...
(1994–1997) Tricia Armstrong - Outside Edge (1994–1995) Ginnie Willis
- Peak PracticePeak PracticePeak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time...
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- El C.I.D.El C.I.D.El C.I.D. was an ITV television series that ran for three seasons from 1990 to 1992. It starred Alfred Molina as Bernard Blake, a C.I.D. officer who takes early retirement and moves to Spain where he and his partner, John Bird, a retired records officer, keep an eye on the ex-pat community of...
(1992) Fran - Riff-Raff (1991) Singer
- Hale and PaceHale and PaceHale and Pace are an English comedy duo who have starred in several TV sketch series.-Early career:Gareth Hale and Norman Pace met at Avery Hill teacher training college in Eltham South East London. They discovered much in common, particularly humour, and began playing clubs in a comedy band. One...
(1989–1991) - A Bit of a DoA Bit of a DoA Bit of a Do was a British comedy drama series based on the books by David Nobbs. The show starred David Jason and was aired on ITV in 1989. It was made for the ITV network by Yorkshire Television.The show was set in a fictional Yorkshire town...
(1989) Sandra Pickersgill
Television writing
- ShamelessShamelessShameless is a British television drama series set in Manchester on the fictional Chatsworth council estate. Produced by Company Pictures for Channel 4, the first seven-episode series aired weekly on Tuesday nights at 10pm from 13 January 2004...
(2009) - Family AffairsFamily AffairsFamily Affairs was a British soap opera broadcast on Five, from 1997 to 2005. It was the second programme to be broadcast on the channel on 30 March 1997, the channel's launch night...
(2005) - Heartbeat (2005)
- Tracy Beaker Parties with Pudsey (2004)
- The Story of Tracy BeakerThe Story of Tracy BeakerThe Story of Tracy Beaker is a British children's book first published in 1991, written by Jacqueline Wilson and illustrated by Nick Sharratt.-Background:...
- Crossroads (2001)