NADIA SAWALHA

'Nadia Sawalha' (born November 18, 1964 in Wandsworth, London, England) is an English actress and television presenter of Jordanian, English, and Huguenot descent.
Nadia is perhaps best known for her role as Annie Palmer in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'', although she is now more a presenter than an actress.

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Acting

Other Appearances

Personal life

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Acting

After training at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, Nadia, who hails from a family of successful actors, began her career in theatre.
In 1997 she got her big break in ''EastEnders''. As the tough-nut business woman Annie Palmer, Nadia became a familiar face in thousands of homes around the UK. She remained in the role until 1999.
Her other acting television credits include ''Casualty'', ''Which Way to the War'' and ITV police drama, ''The Bill''.
She has also appeared in the films ''Clockwise'', ''Top Tips'', ''Sleeping with the Fishes'' and the BBC Victorian drama ''Station Jim''.
Presenting
Aside from acting, Nadia has become a regular personality on daytime TV, after presenting the live programmes ''Loose Women'' and ''Live Talk''.
For the BBC, she has fronted four series of ''Passport to the Sun'', the ''Total'' series, ''TV Mail'', ''Perfect Partner'' and ''Family Exchange''. She is also a co-host on the live documentary ''City Hospital''.
She has previously hosted the morning BBC1 show ''Living in the Sun'', about British ex-pats living in Spain, made by Ricochet.
She can also be seen on ''Accidents Can Happen'', a daytime BBC1 programme produced by Twofour, which follows families as they try to rebuild their homes and their lives following disaster.
Nadia co-presented ''The One Show'' with Adrian Chiles. This nationwide-style show launched on BBC1 in the summer of 2006 and features a mix of interviews, factual features and topical stories. On Wednesday March 14th 2007, it was confirmed on Digital Say Broadcast and The Sun that Nadia will not return to co-present The One Show when it returns
in the summer of 2007, because she is pregnant.

Other Appearances

Nadia has appeared as a guest on ''Test the Nation'' and contributed to ''Comic Relief'' by taking part in ''Celebrity Driving School''.
She won the 2007 series of ''Celebrity Masterchef'', beating Craig Revel Horwood and Midge Ure in the final.

Personal life

Nadia is the daughter of the actor Nadim Sawalha, and sister of television star, Julia Sawalha. The three all starred together in ''Dearest Daddy... Darling Daughter'' at the Young Vic Theatre in South London in 1997.
On Christmas Day 1997, Sawalha's first husband Justin Mildwater committed suicide shortly after she left him.
She once dated her ''EastEnders'' co-star Marc Bannerman, who played her on-screen love interest Gianni di Marco. She is now married to her second husband, Mark Adderley, and has a daughter called Maddy, who was born on Christmas day 2002.

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