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Corrinne Wicks Born Corrinne Eleanor Wicks
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UKOccupation Actress Years active 1998 - present Spouse Tom Butcher (2005 - present) Corrinne Wicks is a UK actress, best known for playing Ella Hart in ITV's "Emmerdale" and Dr. Helen Thompson in the BBC daytime soap opera, Doctors, from 2000 to 2005. She was born and brought up in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
After working for several years as a TV casting assistant, she trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art from 1996-98 and moved into acting.
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Career
Television
Wicks started her career in television as a casting assistant on such programmes as "Prime Suspect", "Dalziel and Pascoe" and The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, before deciding to switch to an acting career.
In addition to her appearances for five years in the daily soap opera Doctors, Corrinne has also appeared in several other shows including Harbour Lights, The Bill, Holby City, and played a barrister in Life on Mars. Wicks also appeared on the special charity "TV Medics" edition of The Weakest Link in December 2001.
Wicks joined the regular cast of Emmerdale in November 2010 on a six month contract as Ella Hart, the ex-wife of Declan Macey.[1] The character of Ella Hart gave Wicks the chance to be more provocative and flirtatious than many of her previous screen credits allowed.[2] In June 2011 the short term contract was not extended and Wicks's character was written out of the programme when Stuart Blackburn took helm as producer. However, the door has been left open for the character's possible return.
Wicks received a Best Actress nomination at the Royal Television Society Awards (RTS) in both 2004 and 2005.
As well as her newly appointed role in Emmerdale, Corrinne cross-channeled for the BBC's adaptation of Nigel Slater's best selling memoir Toast (January 2011) playing young Nigel's lusty secondary school teacher. [3]
Theatre
Her theatre acting credits include Trevor Nunn’s production of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal at The Royal National Theatre, Attempts on Her Life, Six Degrees of Separation and Dinner with the Family.
Wicks completed a UK tour in 2007 with the production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, that co-starred her husband Tom Butcher and in 2009/10 toured the UK in "TheHolly and The Ivy" playing the drunken and damaged Margaret Gregory.
Personal life
She married her Doctors co-star Tom Butcher in November 2005.[4]
Although married, Wicks does not live with her husband; with him living in London and she continuing to live at her home in Birmingham, while commuting to Yorkshire when working. The couple do not go for more than two weeks at a time before meeting up.[5]
References
- ^ Wickes in Emmerdale
- ^ Daniel Kilkelly. "'Emmerdale' newcomer wants flirty scenes". Digital Spy. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s12/emmerdale/news/a287371/emmerdale-newcomer-wants-flirty-scenes.html.
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wylpf
- ^ Marriage to Tom Butcher
- ^ Roz Laws. "Wicks and husband live 'happily' apart". Sunday Mercury. http://www.sundaymercury.net/entertainment-news/tv-news/2010/11/14/emmerdale-star-corrinne-wicks-on-why-she-lives-apart-from-her-husband-66331-27648888.
External links
Categories:- Living people
- People from Cheltenham
- Alumni of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art
- English television actors
- English stage actors
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