Melanie Hill
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| Melanie Hill | |
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| Born | 11 January 1962 |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1984–present |
| Spouse | Sean Bean (1990–1997) divorced |
Melanie Hill (born 11 January 1962) is an English actress from Sunderland, County Durham.
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[edit] Acting career
Hill attended RADA in London where she won the Vanburgh award.
[edit] Television
Hill replaced Gilly Coman as the character of Aveline in the last two series' of Carla Lane's BBC television sitcom Bread. She has also appeared in such programmes as The Bill playing Marie Carver (née Graham), Auf Wiedersehen, Pet playing Hazel Redfern, Hot Money playing Liz Hoodless, Juliet Bravo playing Jean Simpson, Emmerdale playing Avril Kent and Cape Wrath playing Brenda Ogilvie.
On 17 March 2009, she featured in an episode of Holby City, a medical drama broadcast weekly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. This became a recurring role, as the actress appeared in subsequent episodes, following a story arc relating to the death of her on-screen husband.
In April 2011, she appeared in the BBC television comedy drama series Candy Cabs and in November, appeared in the fantasy series "Merlin" as Mary Howden. In April that year, she also appeared as Cissie Charlton, mother of footballers Jack and Bobby Charlton, in the BBC drama United, which was centred around the 1958 Munich air disaster involving Manchester United and in which Cissie's younger son Bobby was involved but survived.[1]
[edit] Film
Hill appeared in Brassed Off (1996) as Sandra.
She appeared as the witch Ditchwater Sal in the 2007 film Stardust and the 2009 film White Girl.
[edit] Personal life
Hill married English actor Sean Bean in February 1990. The couple have two daughters, Lorna, born October 1987, and Molly, born September 1991. They divorced in August 1997. She is a supporter of Sunderland A.F.C.
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