Sunetra Sarker
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Sunetra Sarker (born 25 June 1973) is an English actress best known for her appearances as Nisha Batra in Brookside, Anji Mittel in No Angels, Zoe Hanna in Casualty and Kaneez Paracha in Ackley Bridge.
She appeared in the twelfth season of Strictly Come Dancing in 2014, alongside Brendan Cole and Ken Cole.
Early life
Sarker was born in Liverpool into an Indian family. Her father, a retired doctor, and her mother, Bisakha, a mentor of Indian classical dance, for which she was given an MBE in December 2013. Sarker holds a degree in Information Systems for Business (Europe) from Brunel University London. Nares Sen-Gupta, a lawyer, author, and political activist, was her grandmother. She is of Bengali origins.
Personal life
Sarker and her ancestors were the subject of an episode of Who Do You Think You Are on February 23, 2017. She traces them to Bengal on BBC One in which she traced them to Bengal. She learned of her family's involvement in India's freedom struggle, as well as one of her ancestors' connection to Gandhi. She travelled to Bangladesh next year, visiting her great-grandmother's ancestral village, where she learned the tale of how her family was captured up in the Bangladeshi war of independence from Pakistan in 1971.
Sarker married Nick Corfield in 2003 and they have a son, Noah, who was born in 2001. In 2009, Sarker and Corfield divorced. Sarker married Scott Carey, who she has known since 1991, in November 2018.
Career
Sarker has worked in a variety of capacities throughout her career. She made her debut in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside from 1988 to 1990, then back in 2003 and 2003. Sarker has also appeared in the regional soap opera London Bridge. This was followed by her portrayal of Anji Mittel in No Angels from 2004 to 2006.
Sarker's next notable role was portraying Clare Burns in the BBC drama The Chase before the show was cancelled following its second series. Sarker was a contestant on the celebrity cooking show Celebrity MasterChef in 2007. Sarker appeared in the BBC medical drama Casualty from December 2007 to May 2016. Sarker made a promise to co-star Jamie Davis that she would return for one episode if she decided to leave the program in January, a promise she kept in 2018.
In the second season of ITV's Safe House, she played DCI Jane Burr. Sarker has appeared in Channel 4's Ackley Bridge as Kaneez Paracha, for which she was nominated for Best TV Character at the Asian Media Awards since 2017.
Sarker was announced on July 23, 2021, that she would be a panelist on Loose Women.
Sarker appeared in the twelfth series of Strictly Come Dancing on the BBC in autumn 2014, partnering with Brendan Cole of New Zealand. The couple performed a Tango to "Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)" by Robert Palmer in the first week, earning 24 points. Whitney Houston's "Million Dollar Bill" danced in the second week, scoring 26. The pair danced the American Smooth to "The Way You Look Tonight" from Swing Time, scoring 40, including a 9 from head judge Len Goodman. The routine had to be learned in a single day due to Sunetra's filming schedule.
Vicki Sue Robinson's "Turn the Beat Around" danced in the fourth week, earning 27 points. The couple performed "Anyone Who Had a Heart" by Cilla Black in the fifth week, earning 30 points. They performed a Jive to "Tainted Love" by Gloria Jones in week six, the show's first week. They scored 27. They performed "All of Me" by John Legend in week seven, landing a Foxtrot to "All of Me" by John Legend and scoring 31. They performed a Samba to "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" by the Scissor Sisters in week eight, earning 30 points. The couple were voted into the dance competition against Judy Murray and Anton du Beke, but the judges had them unanimously saved by the judges. They performed a Waltz to "Last Request" by Paolo Nutini and then scored 30, putting them one of the best places in the world for the ninth week in a row. Both the couples were accepted into the dance competition with Steve Backshall and Ola Jordan, but the judges had to decide by three votes to one. They performed a Rhumba to "The Girl from Ipanema" by Michael Bolton in week ten. The judges had voted them out of the dance competition against Mark Wright and Karen Hauer, but the judges had unanimously voted them out.