Nicola Stapleton

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Nicola Kathleen Stapleton (born 9 August 1974 in Elephant and Castle, London) is an English actress.

She is best known for her roles in EastEnders as Mandy Salter and Emmerdale as Danielle Hutch.

A graduate of the Sylvia Young Theatre School, Stapleton began her career at an early age, appearing in films such as Hansel and Gretel and on television in the children's show Simon and the Witch in 1987. In 1992, she secured a high-profile role on British television as Mandy Salter in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.

In 1994, Stapleton quit the role, but in 2011, returned to the role after seventeen years.

In 2012, she left the role for a second time. Stapleton's other notable television roles include that of Janine Nebeski in ITV's Bad Girls (2005–06) and Joe Nardone in Channel 4's Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star (1998). In 2017, she joined Thomas & Friends as the voice of Rosie, taking over from Teresa Gallagher in the UK and Jules de Jongh in the US.

28 October 2017 marked Nicola's third appearance in 'Casualty' playing her third different character in the show.

Early life

Stapleton was raised near East Street, which runs east to west between the Old Kent Road and Walworth Road in Walworth, south London. She and her younger brother Vince were born to working class parents, Kate, a cleaner from Scotland and Vincent Stapleton, who ran a car hire business.

She attended the Townsend Primary School in South East London, where her parents were advised by a teacher "to channel her energy into something positive." As a result, they sent her to the Corona Theatre School and Sylvia Young Theatre School, where Denise Van Outen and her future EastEnders co-star, Danniella Westbrook, were among her contemporaries.

Personal life

In October 2001, Stapleton's father was jailed for his part in an £11million VAT computer-chip fraud. Her brother was also fined £10,000, for helping in the fraudulent business, which involved importing VAT-exempt microchips from EU countries and selling them to firms with added VAT, before claiming money back from Customs and Excise. Nicola Stapleton provided the £125,000 bail, for her brother during the trial.

In September 2005, Mr. Stapleton was eventually told by the Court of Appeal, to pay a confiscation order of £1.6 million. In July 2008, Nicola Stapleton battled against the Customs Prosecution Office at the High Court in order to keep her property in South Norwood, which she had purchased from her father for £175,000 before his imprisonment for fraud.

The prosecution claimed that the house had originally been purchased from "ill-gotten gains", and wanted to seize the property as part of the confiscation order. Stapleton maintains that she bought the property out of her earnings as an actress in 2000. The court found in favour of Nicola Stapleton. In January 2014, Nicola gave birth to her first child (with fiancé David Luck), a boy named Ray.

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Career

Stapleton's career in showbusiness began when she was six years old, and she had a minor role as an extra in the James Bond film Octopussy (1983). Dempsey and Makepeace (ITV), 1985; Hansel and Gretel, 1987) and Courage Peak (MGM, 1990).

Simon and the Witch, age 12, appeared on Sally in 1987 Children's BBC film Simon and the Witch. She appeared on Bread, a BBC sitcom.

Stapleton is perhaps best known for her role as the obnoxious Mandy Salter in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, in which she appeared from 1992 to 1994. During her time on the soap, Stapleton's character was included in storylines about child and opioid use, homelessness, and prostitution.

In a special episode of Doctor Who's science fiction film Dimensions in Time (1993), her EastEnders character was also included. Children in Need, a BBC's annual fund-raising event, was specifically selected for the episode. Viewers were encouraged to call in and determine which EastEnders character, Mandy or 'Big' Ron, would appear in the show. Two versions of each voting result were recorded, but the Mandy version received 56% of the vote. Stapleton grew sick of all the attention she received from being on such a high-profile show, so she resigned from the role in 1994.

"Working on EastEnders made me quit doing soaps for a long time," Stapleton said in an interview, although I knew it wasn't long.' I've been asked a few times to return, but I'm thinking, 'It took me a long time to get here.' I'm not ready to return to Mandy just yet... The publicity surrounding EastEnders is huge, and sometimes you end up feeling like a celebrity rather than an actor, so I wanted my job to be more fulfilling than that."

Stapleton revealed in June 2011 that she would return to EastEnders after a 17-year absence, and that she would appear as Mandy in an episode broadcast in August that year. Stapleton resigned from the position for the second time at the end of her tenure, with Mandy leaving in May 2012.

You Bet! Stapleton's subsequent television credits include; You Bet! (ITV, 1993); The Thin Blue Line (BBC, 1999); Casualty and Chums (BBC, 1999); Audrey and Friends, 2004; Brinks Mat: The Greatest Heist (2004); Jane Hall (ITV, 2006), among others.

She has appeared in document films including: Urban Ghost Story (1998); The Killing Zone (1999); South West Nine (2001); Goodbye Charlie Bright (2001); Chunky Monkey (2001). In a musical version of the J.M., she appeared on stage as Peter Pan. Terence Donovan and Laurence Mark Wythe, a Barrie novelist who later became a composer and lyricist in musical theatre, appeared in the United Kingdom.

Susan Sheridan, who was the first voice of Minnie the Minx in 1994, appeared in the second and final Beano Video film Beano Videostars, but Sheridan performed several characters in other Beano segments.

She appeared in Channel 4's highly regarded Young People's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star in 1998. Joe Nardone, a sex-mad guitarist in a Scottish band, went from playing pubs to netting a record contract via a series of wild parties. Stapleton appeared in her first of two appearances on ITV1's crime show The Bill in 2002, and she became the second survivor of the Sun Hill Serial Killer.

Stapleton is best known for his appearance in the seventh and eighth series of ITV's prison drama Bad Girls (2005–06). In the final film, her character, Donny Kimber, began a friendship with a male prison officer, who was portrayed by her ex-EastEnders co-star Sid Owen.

The Stapleton family appeared on Celebrity Family Fortunes on November 4, 2006. Nicola and the Stapleton family appeared in The Bill, the ITV police drama; her second appearance in the series to date. Linda Robson, a Feather actress, joined Birds of a Feather star Linda Robson to form a drug-addicted mother-daughter pair. Louise Parker appeared in BBC's The Last Encounter in 2007.

Stapleton appeared in Cockroach Who, Of Mice and Men, which toured the United Kingdom; Scissor Happy at the Duchess Theatre (1997); Essex Girls, Corner Boys, and Four Star Hotel were all on display at the Royal Court Theatre. Nicola has appeared on Weakest Link's television version. She was the 6th one to have been disapproved.

It was announced in August 2008 that she would play Eli Dingle's companion Danielle Hutch on the soap opera Emmerdale; her first scene aired in September 2008. "Danielle is such an interesting character because there's more to her than meets the eye," Stapleton said of her role. I'm really looking forward to starting filming, and I think viewers will have some exciting times as we explore Danielle and Eli's friendship. "I'm so thrilled to welcome an actress with Nicola's calibre to the stage," Emmerdale series producer Anita Turner said. Eli likes to manipulate people, but Danielle is a different story, and she'll definitely get under his skin."

Stapleton appeared in Channel 4's Hollyoaks Later in September 2009 as Cindy Cunningham's friend. Nicola made a def porn comedian in October 2009, a parody of the world's most popular deaf porn actor.

Stapleton has contributed to Thomas & Friends' voice, as well as the voice of the Retini King.

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