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Caroline O'Hara

Caroline O'Hara is a Burnley-born, English actress who trained at The Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.

Caroline has received acclaim for performances in The Elephant Man, [1] Cyrano de Bergerac, [2] and The Mating Game. [3] She portrayed Lucy Wright, an English nurse who was arrested in 2007 for attempting to smuggle 7 kg of cocaine out of Buenos Aires and subsequently escaped back to England, in a 2012 episode of Banged Up Abroad . [4] [5] Caroline has performed opposite Ray Winstone in Vincent, [6] Shaun Parkes and Danny Dyer in Kiss of Death, [7] Tom Conti in Parents, [8] and has had leading roles in Casualty , [9] [10] The Bill , [11] Emmerdale [12] and Coronation Street . Julian Farino cast Caroline at the age of 14 to play child prostitute Justine Paiton in Out of the Blue, alongside Orla Brady and David Morrissey. [13]

She is in the music video for the song "Genghis Khan" by Miike Snow, in the role of the wife of the Bond-villain character. She has worked on advertising campaigns for Warburtons as recurring character Michelle co-starring Robert de Niro, Sylvester Stallone, The Muppets and Peter Kay, [14] also for House of Fraser, [15] playing Cinderella, and was cast in a series of adverts for Walker's Crisps 'to get more young men to buy its crisps'. [16]

In 2019, Caroline was cast as Kelly Markham on British medical soap opera Doctors , [17] and Esther in Mike Bartlett's Life, [18] produced by the BBC and Drama Republic. [19]

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