Dani Harmer

Dani Harmer
Birth name	Danielle Jane Harmer Berkshire, England
Born	8 February 1989 (1989-02-08) (age 22)
Origin	Bracknell, Berkshire, England
Genres	Pop
Occupations	Singer, actress, TV presenter
Years active	1995–present (actress) 2009 (singer)
Labels	Universal/Decca (2009)

Danielle Jane "Dani" Harmer (born 8 February 1989) is an English television actress and singer. Harmer is best known as the title character in the UK television programme The Story of Tracy Beaker/Tracy Beaker Returns, and as Molly Venables in the BBC sitcom After You've Gone.^[1] Harmer also has her own TV show called Dani's House,^[2] and has also occasionally presented continuity clips on the CBBC channel. Her debut album, Superheroes, is thought to have been dropped.

Career

She made her stage debut age 6 in the musical The Who's Tommy in the West End.^[3] She has appeared in a number of pantomimes: Dolly Mixture in Snow White (2004),^[4] the title character in Peter Pan (2005, Alban Arena, 2006 in Worthing and 2010 in High Wycombe), and Dick Whittington (2007, Wolverhampton Grand Theatre).^[4] Other stage credits include a 2005 production of The Wizard of Oz at the Sunderland Empire Theatre.^[4] Harmer appeared as an extra in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone; she was sitting in the Great Hall when the new students to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry took turns to visit the Sorting Hat. Her big break was when she landed the role as the title character in The Story of Tracy Beaker, which she continued for five series, including a feature length film.

Her other TV credits include the ITV drama series Trial & Retribution,^[5] Casualty,^[6] My Family,^[7] Pie in the Sky,^[8] The 10th Kingdom,^[9] Beast,^[10] Touch Me, I'm Karen Taylor,^[11] Beep Beep in the British television series The Beeps,^[12] and the pilot for Coming of Age.^[13] She was one of the presenters: known as "packers" in the 2006 series of the Saturday morning show, Mighty Truck of Stuff.^[14]

In November 2008, Media Guardian reported that After You've Gone was to be cancelled by the BBC, due to ITV moving Coronation Street to the same slot on ITV1. The BBC had announced a fourth series of the show in January of that year to be aired in 2009; however, the series ended with a Christmas special in 2008.^[15] Harmer has recently (March 2010) starred in The Wizard of Oz at The Journal Tyne Theatre in Newcastle.

Harmer has announced that there will be 2 more series to her hit TV show, Dani's House, each consisting of 13 episodes.^[16] Dani Harmer returned to the role as Tracy Beaker in early 2010 in the 13-episode BBC series Tracy Beaker Returns, in which her character had developed into a care worker and has written an autobiography about what life is like for children in care.^[17] In 2009, Dani received a Gold Blue Peter Badge for her role in Tracy Beaker.^[18]

Music

Dani Harmer signed a record deal with record label Universal/Decca worth £3 million, under the management of Daniel Glatman,^[19] some time before beginning work on her debut album. The first single from the album, "Free" (the theme song to Dani's House) was released on 25 May 2009. "Free" is also a track featured in Pop Princesses 2009.^[3]

Harmer's debut album Superheroes was scheduled to be released in September 2009, however, the album never became published and is rumoured to have been dropped by Harmer's record label, no official conformation has been made as of yet.

Television

Year	Title	Role	Network	Notes
1997	Pie in the Sky[8]	Twin	BBC One	Series 5 Episodes 6, The Apprentice
1999	Trial & Retribution[5]	Amy Walker	ITV1	Series 3 Episode 1
2000	The 10th Kingdom[9]	Merrypip Girl	NBC	Series 1 Episodes 7
2001	Beast[10]	Emily	BBC	Series 2 Episode 5, Lamb
2002	Trial & Retribution[20]	Amy Walker	ITV1	Series 5 Episode 2 and Series 6 Episode 1 and 2
	The Story of Tracy Beaker Series 1[21]	Tracy Beaker	BBC One	Series 1
2003	My Family[7]	Girl	BBC One	Series 4 Episode 8, Friday the 31st
	The Story of Tracy Beaker Series 2[22]	Tracy Beaker	BBC One	Series 2
2004	The Story of Tracy Beaker Series 3[23]	Tracy Beaker	BBC One	Series 3
	The Story of Tracy Beaker Series 4[24]	Tracy Beaker	BBC One	Series 4
2005	The Story of Tracy Beaker Series 5[25]	Tracy Beaker	BBC One	Series 5 Episode 1-7
	Mighty Truck of Stuff[14]	Packer	BBC Two	Series 5 Episode 1-7
2006	The Story of Tracy Beaker Series 5[26]	Tracy Beaker	BBC One	Series 5 Episode 8-20
	Children's Party At The Palace[27]	Tracy Beaker	BBC One	Dani played Tracy Beaker and was on the goodie team who had to find Queen Elizabeth II's Handbag before she gave her birthday speech.
2007	Coming of Age Pilot[13]	Chloe	BBC Three	Series 1 Episode 0
	The Beeps[12]	Beep Beep	Channel 5	Series 1
	After You've Gone Series 1[28]	Molly Venables	BBC One and BBC HD	Series 1
	After You've Gone Series 2[29]	Molly Venables	BBC One and BBC HD	Series 2
	After You've Gone Christmas Special[30]	Molly Venables	BBC One and BBC HD	Christmas Special
2008	The Beeps[31]	Beep Beep	Channel 5	Series 2
	After You've Gone Series 3[28]	Molly Venables	BBC One and BBC HD	Series 3
	Dani's House[2]	Dani	BBC One	Series 1
	After You've Gone Christmas Special[32]	Molly Venables	BBC One and BBC HD	Christmas Special
2009	Dani's House[33]	Dani	BBC One	Series 2
	Loose Women[34]	Herself	ITV1	Dani was a guest talking about her career.
	Blue Peter[35]	Herself	BBC One	Dani was a guest talking about Tracy Beaker Returns.
	GMTV[36]	Herself	ITV1	Dani was a guest talking about her music career.
2010	Tracy Beaker Returns[17]	Tracy Beaker	CBBC Channel and BBC HD	Series 1
	CBBC Continuity	Herself	CBBC Channel	Guest Presenter alongside Iain Stirling and Hacker T. Dog
	Dani's House[37]	Dani	CBBC Channel	Series 3
2011	Tracy Beaker Returns[17]	Tracy Beaker	CBBC Channel and BBC HD	Series 2
2011	Friday Download	Herself	CBBC Channel	Guest Reporter
2011	Dani's House	Herself	CBBC Channel	Series 4
2012	Tracy Beaker Returns[17]	Tracy Beaker	CBBC Channel and BBC HD	Series 3

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	Tracy Beaker's Movie of Me[38]	Tracy Beaker	Television Movie for CBBC

Discography

Singles

• "Free" (2009)

Music videos

• "Free" (2009)

References

1. ^ "After You've Gone – new sitcom starts Friday 12 January 2007 at 8.30pm on BBC One". http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/12_december/22/after.shtml. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Dani's House (2008)". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1198825/. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
3. ^ ^{a b} "Dani Harmer News". http://www.officialdaniharmer.com/danisworld/news. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
4. ^ ^{a b c} "Dani: 'I’m just a normal girl from Bracknell". http://www.bbc.co.uk/threecounties/content/articles/2005/10/10/dani_harmer_stalbans_panto_2005_feature.shtml. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
5. ^ ^{a b} "Trial & Retribution (1999)". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0215265/. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
6. ^ "Casualty". http://www.last.fm/music/Dani+harmer. Retrieved -03-01-2010. 
7. ^ ^{a b} "My Family (2003)". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0654441/. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
8. ^ ^{a b} "Pie in the Sky (1997)". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0674792/fullcredits#cast. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
9. ^ ^{a b} "The 10th Kingdom (2000))". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0674792/fullcredits#cast. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
10. ^ ^{a b} "Beast (2001)". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0520246/. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
11. ^ "Dani Harmer About Dani". http://www.officialdaniharmer.com/danisworld/aboutdani. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
12. ^ ^{a b} "The Beeps (2007)". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0993121/. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
13. ^ ^{a b} "Coming of Age Pilot (2007)". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1308232/. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
14. ^ ^{a b} "Mighty Truck of Stuff (2005)". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490733/fullcredits#cast. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
15. ^ Holmwood, Leigh (19 November 2008). "BBC drops After You've Gone". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/19/bbc-after-youve-gone. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
16. ^ "Dani's House". http://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/tv/danis_house/. Retrieved -03-01-2010. 
17. ^ ^{a b c d} "Tracy Beaker Returns (2010)". http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/11_november/30/tracy_beaker.shtml. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
18. ^ "CBBC's Blue Peter announces gold badge winners of 2009". http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/12_december/28/bluepeter.shtml. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
19. ^ "Record Deal". http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/music/features/Introducing+Dani+Harmer-7369.html. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
20. ^ "Trial & Retribution (2002)". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1511543/fullcredits#cast. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
21. ^ "The Story of Tracy Beaker (2002)". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363378/. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
22. ^ "The Story of Tracy Beaker (2003)". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363378/. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
23. ^ "The Story of Tracy Beaker (2004)". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363378/. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
24. ^ "The Story of Tracy Beaker (2004.2)". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363378/. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
25. ^ "The Story of Tracy Beaker (2005)". http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/08_august/23/cbbc_cbbc.shtml. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
26. ^ "The Story of Tracy Beaker (2006)". http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/08_august/23/cbbc_cbbc.shtml. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
27. ^ "Children's Party At The Palace (2006)". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0839761/. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
28. ^ ^{a b} "After You've Gone(2007)". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0927170/. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
29. ^ "After You've Gone(2007.2)". http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/01_january/17/gone.shtml. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
30. ^ "After You've Gone Christmas Special(2007)". http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/01_january/17/gone.shtml. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
31. ^ "The Beeps (2008)". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0993121/. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
32. ^ "After You've Gone Christmas Special(2008)". http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/01_january/17/gone.shtml. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
33. ^ "Dani's House (2009)". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1198825/. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
34. ^ "Loose Women (2009)". http://www.officialdaniharmer.com/danisworld/news. Retrieved -03-01-2010. 
35. ^ "Blue Peter (2009)". http://www.officialdaniharmer.com/danisworld/news. Retrieved -03-01-2010. 
36. ^ "GMTV (2009)". http://www.gm.tv/entertainment/music/34954-dani-harmer-qa.html. Retrieved -03-01-2010. 
37. ^ "Dani's House (2010)". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1198825/. Retrieved -02-01-2010. 
38. ^ "Tracy Beaker's Movie of Me(2005)". http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/12_december/11/cbbc_one.shtml#tracy. Retrieved 02-01-2010. 

External links

• Dani Harmer at the Internet Movie Database

Persondata
Name	Harmer, Dani
Alternative names	Danielle Harmer
Short description	English actress
Date of birth	8 February 1989
Place of birth	Bracknell, Berkshire, England
Date of death
Place of death