Tamzin Outhwaite
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Tamzin as Melanie in EastEnders |
Tamzin Outhwaite (born on
November 5,
1970 in
Ilford,
Essex,
England) is a
British actor best known for playing
Melanie Owen (née Healy, Beale) in the
BBC soap opera EastEnders.
Outhwaite attended the Stagestruck Theatre Company as a young teenager. At 16 she left school to join the London Studio Centre to study drama and dance. She went on to many stage roles including
Grease and
Oliver! before having bit parts in
The Bill and
Men Behaving Badly.
Outhwaite left
EastEnders in
2002, shortly after the departure from the soap of co-star
Martin Kemp, who had played her husband.
In
2002, she was given a leading role in BBC army drama
Red Cap, however the series ended in
2004. During
Red Cap, she starred with
Nigel Harman who later joined
EastEnders himself. According to press reports, she also dated him for a short time.
After this she went on to star in a number of television dramas, including
Hustle,
Final Demand and
Frances Tuesday.
She fronted an advertising campaign as part of a one million pound contract with cosmetics company
Avon; she also modelled the Spirit range at Debenhams in 2004.
She had been edging into the
Hollywood film industry, starring alongside
Wesley Snipes in
7 Seconds. However this had very little success.
In
2005, she played a part in the
ITV drama
Walk Away and I Stumble, in which her character was seen dying of a brain tumour. More recently she can be seen in
Hotel Babylon, a new BBC1 drama.
Tamzin is also now starring in the ITV drama series
Vital Signs as a frustrated mother who decides to leave her dreary job at the supermarket and enrol in medical school.
She is married to
EastEnders actor
Tom Ellis.
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