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09.05.2022 - 13:07 / ok.co.uk
Every actor has to start somewhere, and some of our best-known soap stars actually began their screen careers on long lost kids’ TV shows that used to be must-see after school viewing. EastEnders’ Letitia Dean, Robert Kazinsky and Kellie Blight, Corrie’s Georgia May Foote and Emmerdale’s Chris Bisson all earned their spurs on the small screen when they were very young.They featured in popular children’s dramas like Grange Hill, T-Bag and Children’s Ward, with one even working alongside the infamous Basil Brush fox puppet.
While a lot of child actors grow up to pursue other careers after their initial taste of fame, this talented bunch have stood the test of time. Let's take a look at where they began.
Letitia Dean Glamorous EastEnders star Letitia Dean has played feisty blonde Sharon Mitchell, on and off, since the soap first hit our screens back in 1985, when she was 17. By then the seasoned stage school youngster had already been performing professionally since the age of 12 and had cut her soap teeth with a part in Channel 4’s Brookside.
Londoner Letitia, 54, who studied at Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts and the prestigious Sylvia Young Theatre School made her professional debut at the age of 12, appearing on the West End stage as Pepper in the musical Annie. A talented singer, she also took the lead as Sandy in Grease.
She started popping up on TV when she was 13 and her first major part was as schoolgirl Lucinda Oliver in the children’s TV drama Grange Hill between 1983 and ‘84, followed by a stint playing Dawn in Channel 4’s Brookside. Letitia struck gold when she was cast as the troubled adopted daughter of Queen Vic landlord and landlady Den and Angie Watts in EastEnders, a member of the resident teenage
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