Kellie Bright

Kellie Bright
Born	1 July 1976 (1976-07-01) Essex, England
Occupation	Actress

Kellie Bright (born 1 July 1976, Essex, England) is an actress who is known for her roles as a child actress on British television in the late 1980s and the 1990s, and later in Bad Girls and The Archers.

Early career

Trained at the Sylvia Young Theatre School, Bright appeared as Sally Simpkins in two series (and a Christmas special) of the ITV children's TV series, T-Bag, and as "Little Girl" in the BBC children's series Maid Marian and her Merry Men before landing the role of Joanna Burrows on ITV sitcom The Upper Hand, a British remake of the US sitcom Who's the Boss?. Bright played the role of the housekeeper's daughter, the UK counterpart to Alyssa Milano's role, from 1990 to 1996.

Adult roles

Later roles included fraudster and lesbian Cassie Tyler in series four of British prison drama Bad Girls, The House That Jack Built with Adam Faith, and Ali G's girlfriend, "Me Julie", in film Ali G Indahouse (all 2002). More recently, Bright has appeared in the film Kinky Boots and several episodes of ITV's Jericho (both 2005)

Bright has also played the role of Kate Madikane, née Aldridge in the BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers on and off since 1995, and appeared onstage in 2005 in Paul. In July 2008, she appeared in an episode of the fifth series of New Tricks as Sarah Madley. This was shown on BBC1 on 21 July. In 2009 she appeared in the BBC Three comedy show Horne & Corden. Kellie appeared in Series 4 Ep 5 of Hotel Babylon as motivational expert, Meredith Armstrong. This first aired 24 July 2009. In August 2009, Kellie played Joy Miller, mother of patient Lucy in the hospital drama Holby City. This was shown on BBC1 on 11 August.

She is currently best known as Joan Mavis Trotter in the Only Fools and Horses prequel series Rock & Chips which aired on 24 January 2010, 29 December 2010, and 28 April 2011 on BBC1.

External links

• Kellie Bright at the Internet Movie Database