Storme Toolis | |
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Born | Storme Toolis 26 November 1992 London, England |
Occupation | Actor |
Parent(s) | Dea Birkett Kevin Toolis |
Storme Toolis (born 26 November 1992) is a British actress from London. [1]
Toolis was born and raised in London. Her father journalist Kevin Toolis was born in Edinburgh; his parents originated from Achill Island in County Mayo, Ireland. [2] Her mother is Dea Birkett, a British television and print journalist from Surrey; she has a younger brother and a younger sister. [3] Toolis spent seven years as an aspiring actress at the Ovalhouse. [4]
She first appeared on film in Channel 4's The Inbetweeners as an extra, and then as a minor character in The Inbetweeners Movie , based on the earlier television series, subsequently joining the cast of New Tricks as Holly Griffin in August 2013 in series 10 episode 5, "Cry Me a River", of the show.
Toolis has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair. [5] [6] She is an advocate of the rights of disabled actors to play disabled roles. [7]
For her role in New Tricks, Toolis was described as "one of the few disabled actors in Britain, and across the world, to play a minor role in a mainstream drama where the disability of her character is not a feature of the plot, and her role has been compared to Walt Jr in the US Breaking Bad series." [8]
Toolis also partook in the Malteser series of adverts for the Paralympics. The advert was praised for its portrayal of people with disabilities. [9]
Toolis was the first disabled actress to take on the title role of Josephine in the West End version of the play A Day in the Death of Joe Egg . [10]