Hollie Chapman (born in 1988 in Gaddesby in Leicestershire, England) [1] is an English actress. [2] [3]
She was trained in acting at the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London. [2] [4] Around 1996 she appeared as Tessie in a West End production of Annie . [4] [5] She acted also in The Sound of Music as Maria, in Annie (village production), the title role, in Whistle Down the Wind (West End production) [4] and in Smike .[ citation needed ]
She got her first TV role in 2001,[ citation needed ] in an episode of the UK TV serial Holby City . In 2002 she played in the Channel 5 TV serial Don't Blame Me (or Don't Blame the Koalas), regularly appearing as Gemma King, [2] a lovable and arrogant English girl who goes with her brother and mother to Australia.[ citation needed ] In 2006 she was the voice of the soft puppet Cuddle in Softies, a pre-school TV-series. [6] Softies (aired since 2003) is a TV serial with 80 episodes. Each episode has a duration of 5 minutes. [7] In 2006 she acted in two episodes of Doctors , the British television soap opera.[ citation needed ]
In the British radio soap opera The Archers on BBC Radio 4 she plays Alice Carter (née Aldridge). [5] [8] [9] [10] In 2011 she played the character also in Ambridge Extra , a spin-off about the radio drama's younger characters. [11]