Louisa Clein

Louisa Miranda Clein, (born in 1979 in Poole, Dorset), is a British actress. She trained at the Drama Centre London and graduated in 2000. One year later she made her television debut as Charlie Deed in the BBC series "Judge John Deed" and has appeared in "Holby City". She had the role of Zelda Kay in "Island At War" in 2004. Between television appearances, she has appeared in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "My Children, My Africa!" and "The Lady from the Sea". Her performance as Hilda in "The Lady from the Sea" earned her second place in the Ian Charleson Award, the most prestigious national award for actors and actresses under 30. In the winter of 2005 she gave a critically acclaimed performance as Anna in "The Rubinstein Kiss".

Louisa is the sister of cellist Natalie Clein and is an accomplished musician herself having toured with the National Youth Orchestra between 1995-1996 as a violist. In 2002 she appeared with Natalie in the Holocaust Memorial Day concert and read extracts from her cousin Julia Pascal's Holocaust Trilogy.

For 2006, Louisa will assume the role of the radical pianist Harriet Cohen in "Dearest Tania" scripted by Duncan Honeybourne.