Roanne Bardsley | |
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Nationality | British |
Occupation | Screenwriter |
Known for | Hollyoaks The Rising Screw Boiling Point Everything Now The Buccaneers |
Roanne Bardsley is a British television screenwriter, best known her work on the long-running Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks . [1] She was originally from Lampeter, later moving to Liverpool. [2]
Following an apprenticeship, Bardsley became a storyliner for Hollyoaks, in 2012. Bardsley graduated to writing over 60 episodes on the series, starting in 2015. In 2018, she won Best Single Episode at the British Soap Awards. [3] Later, she won the writer’s award for Best Long Running TV Series for Hollyoaks at the Writers’ Guild Awards 2020. [4] Bardsley was also selected as one of the Edinburgh TV Festival's 'Ones To Watch'. [5]
She went on to write for Emmy-winning Netflix's children's drama Free Rein , the supernatural thriller series The Rising for Sky Max, [6] and prison drama Screw . [7] Bardsley would join the writing team of The Buccaneers , based on the unfinished novel of the same name by American novelist Edith Wharton, and acted as associate producer on the television adaptation of Boiling Point . Bardsley served as an associate producer and writer on the Netflix series Everything Now .