Loo Brealey
Plays Roxanne Bird
DATE OF BIRTH : 1979
HEIGHT : 5ft3
HOME TOWN : Raunds, Northamptonshire
STUDIED : Studied history at Cambridge and spent a year at New York's prestigious Lee Strasburg Institute.
PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIPS : Used to date actor Bryan Dick
SKILLS : Football and campanology
ON CHARACTER ROXANNE : 'Roxanne seems to say and do everything wrong, which is highly inappropriate in a busy hospital where people are seriously ill. She means well, but she's always messing up.'
SIMILARITIES WITH ROXY : 'Like Roxy I can be incredibly scatty, but apart from that I think we're very different. We've chosen very different careers for a start and she is a teenage mother. I haven't got any kids secreted in my closet.'
ROXY'S BEST & WORST TRAITS : 'Roxy is very well meaning and loving, but she doesn't have a lot of sophisticated social graces. She tries to do the right thing, but often fails. She isn't really ready to be a responsible parent. However I don't think there's anything malicious about her.'
REAL LIFE CASUALTY MOMENTS : 'When I was four I went down the hill near my godmother's house on a tricycle and had to have the inside of my mouth stitched up. I was a monster: it took five nurses to hold me down to apply the local anaesthetic, which they called Pussy Prickle.'
FAVOURITE FOOD: 'I like everything that's bad for me, especially school-dinner food like meat pies, mash, gravy and puddings. I despise sweetcorn and I don't drink caffeine because it sends me completely insane.'
FAVOURITE MUSIC : 'Music wise I like anything from Jeff Lynne's The War of the Worlds to Radiohead, Leonard Cohen and The Smashing Pumpkins. I love new music but I'm actually a bit of a Radio 4 girl.'
HOW SHE KEEPS IN SHAPE : 'I don't. I'm one of those people who are always about to start something and never do. Pilates is next on my list. I love massages - does that count?'
HOW SHE RELAXES : 'At the moment I'm learning the guitar (Derek is helping me in between scenes). I love watching black and white movies and reading. At the moment I'm crawling through a 300-page anthology of American literature. It keeps me off the streets!'
TELEVISION CREDITS : The Johnny Vaughan Film Show; I Love 1999; Casualty; Bleak House; The English Harem; Mayo; Green
FILM CREDITS : Carnt Sleep; Pennies from Heaven
RADIO CREDITS : I Will Tell
THEATRE CREDITS : Sliding with Suzanna; Tube!; Bloody Poetry; School for Scandal
AGENT : Peters, Fraser & Dunlop, Drury House, 34/43 Russell Street, London, WC2B 5HA.
DID YOU KNOW?
* Loo used to ring the bells at her local church
* Loo was sacked from a string of part time jobs throughout university, including a florist for flooding the shop, a sandwich factory for oversleeping on New Years Day, a book factory for reading the books instead of packing them and a restaurant for swearing at a customer.
* Loo played football for her college university and scored the winning goal in the Cambridge Women's Cup quarter final.
Gallery : Loo Brealey
Interviews
holby.tv : Loo Brealey S18 Interview
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