Lorna Fitzgerald
| Lorna Fitzgerald | |
|---|---|
| Born | Lorna Katie Fitzgerald 17 April 1996 [1][2] Northampton, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2005–present |
Lorna Katie Fitzgerald (born 17 April 1996)[1][2] is a British actress from Northampton. She lives in Hunsbury.[3] Her most notable role to date is that of Abi Branning in the British soap opera EastEnders.
Personal life
Fitzgerald started attending Stagecoach Drama Classes at the age of four.[4] She has two older sisters, Corinne and Abigail. She is a keen dancer and enjoys ballet and tap.[5] She also plays the guitar and keeps active by swimming.[5][6]
Career
She appeared in the Casualty episode "Animals",[5][6][7] and a short film called Big Girl, Little Girl.[4][8] She also appeared in the ITV drama The Golden Hour,[6] as well as playing Sarah Lancashire's daughter Jade Cannings in Cherished,[5][6][9] and Young Bex in According to Bex.[10] She has also been in adverts for Childline and Nescafe.
Some time after attending acting classes, Fitzgerald joined the Stagecoach Theatre Arts School in Stony Stratford, and Derngate Theatre School.[4] Through her agent, she heard about the role in BBC One soap opera EastEnders, and went to the BBC Studios in London for the first of three auditions.[4] She was cast as Abi Branning, making her first appearance in 2006.[5][6][11][11]
In November 2009, Fitzgerald was actively involved in a charity project in Northampton called Talking With Hands, a charity for people with hearing impairments and deafness. The project featured on ITV's Anglia News, alongside deaf actor Alex Nowak, and Fitzgerald helped with this project a great deal.[12]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lorna Fitzgerald on Twitter: "Thanks for all your messages. But it's not actually my birthday until April.. Is it wrong if I still celebrate today with cake? #2birthdays🎂"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Madeline Duggan on Twitter: "So excited to see @LornaFitz0 tonight I could explode... "OMG it's ABI from eastenders" that's what I'll be shouting #birthdaygirl"
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External links
- Lorna Fitzgerald at the Internet Movie Database
- Lorna Fitzgerald on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
