Persephone Swales-Dawson

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Persephone Swales-Dawson
Born
Rochdale, England
OccupationActress
Years active2014–present
Known for Hollyoaks (2014–2016, 2018, 2020)

Persephone Swales-Dawson is a British actress. She is known for her role as Nico Blake in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks that she played regularly from 2014 to 2016, reprising the role briefly in 2018 and 2020.

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Early life

Swales-Dawson was born in Rochdale and grew up in Yorkshire. She attended Todmorden High School. [1] She began acting in school and joined the youth group at Hebden Bridge Little Theatre (HBLT). In 2013, she successfully auditioned for the Lowry Young Actors Company in Salford. [2] She later enrolled in classes at Mindful Acting. [3]

Career

In 2014, [4] Swales-Dawson joined the cast of the long-running Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks as the murderous teen villain Nico Blake, whom she would play until the character's supposed death in 2016. [5] For her performance, she won Best Bad Girl at the Inside Soap Awards that year. In a surprise, she returned to the soap in 2018 to reprise her role as Nico, but the character was killed off the same year. She then reprised the role in 2020 in a series of hallucinations.

Swales-Dawson made her professional stage debut when she played Jade Harcourt on the 2019 UK tour of The House on Cold Hill with Joe McFadden and Rita Simons. [6] [7] She also appeared in the television film Risk Takers.

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  1. ↑ "Todmorden High's GCSE pupils are record breakers". Halifax Courier. 22 August 2013. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
  2. ↑ "Persephone Swales-Dawson". TresA Magazine. 26 October 2020. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
  3. ↑ "Persephone Swales-Dawson, Actor, England". Mandy. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
  4. ↑ Campbell, Tina (21 May 2014). "Hollyoaks casts Persephone Swales-Dawson as new teenage character Nico". Metro. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  5. ↑ Harris, Niomi (31 October 2016). "Hollyoaks: Nico Blake actress Persephone Swales-Dawson CONFIRMS character's death". ok.co.uk. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  6. ↑ Thomason, Carmel (17 April 2019). "Ghoulish talk with Charlie Clements and Persephone Swales-Dawson". Quays Life. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
  7. ↑ "Review: 'The House on Cold Hill' – Milton Keynes Theatre, April 2019". Georgina Butler. 18 April 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2023.


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