Charlie Hardwick

Charlie Hardwick
Born Claire Elizabeth Hardwick[1]
(1960-11-03) 3 November 1960
Wallsend, Northumberland, England
Occupation Actress
Years active 1992–present

Claire Elizabeth Hardwick (born 3 November 1960[2]), known as Charlie Hardwick, is an English actress best known for playing Val Pollard from 2004 to 2015 and again in 2017 in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. Nominated six times at the British Soap Awards, she won Best Comedy Performance in 2006.

Acting career

In addition to her role in Emmerdale, she also starred in the 2000 comedy film Purely Belter, Billy Elliot[3] and won the best actress award at the Monte Carlo International Television Festival in 1998 for her role in Amber Films' The Scar, about a County Durham pit community in crisis.[2] She also starred as Sian in Byker Grove, the youth leader. Played the part of Mrs Castellino in the BBC Radio 4 production "The Little World of Don Camillo", and Our Mam in "My Uncle Freddie", both alongside fellow Emmerdale actor Shaun Prendergast (Greg Dolland). In 2003, she played Maggie Thomas in an episode of The Royal. In 2007 Hardwick was an occasional contributor on Grumpy Old Women. For her role on Emmerdale, Hardwick has been nominated 6 times at the British Soap Awards, winning in 2006 for Best Comedy Performance.

Hardwick has acted in a number of stage productions, including starring in Cooking with Elvis alongside Frank Skinner, which toured nationally. In 2012 she starred in the comedy play The Awkward Squad.[4]

Awards and nominations

References

  1. ↑
  2. 1 2 All about Charlie Hardwick who plays Valerie ("Val") Lambert Evening Chronicle, 10 February 2004
  3. ↑ "Charlie Hardwick Biography". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2017-03-25.
  4. ↑ Kilkelly, Daniel. "'Emmerdale' star Charlie Hardwick lands theatre role". Digitalspy.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-03-25.


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