Post by SheWolf on Sept 17, 2007 22:22:17 GMT 1
From the Press assoc.
The Bill has played host to many ex-soap stars over the years, and the latest to arrive in Sun Hill is Julia Mallam, aka Emmerdale's ill-fated young mum Dawn Woods.
Her character met a gruesome end last year in the exploding show-home disaster, and she also looks a little rough in the cops-and-robbers drama on Wednesday, September 26.
Julia plays Olivia Rossington, a prostitute who claims to have been assaulted by her client Valentin Turovich (Pip Torrens).
Although Sergeant Callum Stone (Sam Callis) and PC Leela Kapoor (Seema Bowri) will persuade her to press charges, they are frustrated when they find out the suspect is an Eastern European diplomat with full immunity.
Julia started out in the National Youth Theatre in London, where she was spotted for her first job.
"It was a six-part series called Take Me, which was a wife-swapping murder drama. I played Robson Greene's daughter. Then I played a single mum in Peak Practice. I was a beautician in Fat Friends and was in a series called Stan the Man, with John Thomson."
She was snapped up for Emmerdale in 2003, and spent three years playing Dawn.
The role may have been a dream come true for most actresses, but she did find comments from some members of the public hugely upsetting.
"Some people aren't complimentary," she explains. "The most common thing I had said to me was: 'Ooh, you're not that fat are you? You look fat on telly.' I got that all the time.
"I just think to go up to a young woman in this day and age and say that, I'm not going to bother replying."
The Bill has played host to many ex-soap stars over the years, and the latest to arrive in Sun Hill is Julia Mallam, aka Emmerdale's ill-fated young mum Dawn Woods.
Her character met a gruesome end last year in the exploding show-home disaster, and she also looks a little rough in the cops-and-robbers drama on Wednesday, September 26.
Julia plays Olivia Rossington, a prostitute who claims to have been assaulted by her client Valentin Turovich (Pip Torrens).
Although Sergeant Callum Stone (Sam Callis) and PC Leela Kapoor (Seema Bowri) will persuade her to press charges, they are frustrated when they find out the suspect is an Eastern European diplomat with full immunity.
Julia started out in the National Youth Theatre in London, where she was spotted for her first job.
"It was a six-part series called Take Me, which was a wife-swapping murder drama. I played Robson Greene's daughter. Then I played a single mum in Peak Practice. I was a beautician in Fat Friends and was in a series called Stan the Man, with John Thomson."
She was snapped up for Emmerdale in 2003, and spent three years playing Dawn.
The role may have been a dream come true for most actresses, but she did find comments from some members of the public hugely upsetting.
"Some people aren't complimentary," she explains. "The most common thing I had said to me was: 'Ooh, you're not that fat are you? You look fat on telly.' I got that all the time.
"I just think to go up to a young woman in this day and age and say that, I'm not going to bother replying."