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  • Melanie Hill
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  • Melanie Hill is a housemate from Big Brother 1.
  • Melanie Hill (born 11th January 1962) is an English actress who appeared in Emmerdale in 2005 as Avril Kent. She is best known for playing Aveline Boswell in the TV sitcom Bread. She has appeared in many other programmes before and since Bread, including Juliet Bravo, Cardiac Arrest, Finney, Crocodile Shoes and it's sequel series Crocodile Shoes II, Playing the Field, NCS Manhunt, The Bill, The Fugitives, Cape Wrath, Cilla, Waterloo Road, The Syndicate and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. Since 2015, she has been appearing in Coronation Street as Cathy Matthews.
  • Melanie Hill (born 11th January 1962 in Sunderland) has appeared in Coronation Street since April 2015 as Cathy Matthews. She trained at RADA where she won the Vanbrugh award. Following her television debut in Juliet Bravo, she was the second actress to play the part of Aveline Boswell in Bread but has a long list of other credits to her name including Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Spender, Cardiac Arrest, Crocodile Shoes, The Bill, The Fugitives, Emmerdale, Meadowlands, The Street, Merlin, Cilla and Waterloo Road.
  • Hill replaced Gilly Coman as the character of Aveline in the last two series' of Carla Lane's BBC television sitcom Bread. She has also appeared in such programs as The Bill playing Marie Carver (née Graham), Auf Wiedersehen, Pet playing Hazel Redfern, Hot Money playing Liz Hoodless, Juliet Bravo playing Jean Simpson, Emmerdale playing Avril Kent and Cape Wrath playing Brenda Ogilvie. In 2012, she made her debut on long-running school drama Waterloo Road her character, Maggie Croft, is head of the canteen.
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  • 4
entered
  • Day 1
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Birth Date
  • 1962-01-11
Series
Status
  • Evicted
Role
Name
  • Melanie Hill
Hometown
  • North London
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  • 1
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Birthdate
  • 1974-01-18
Birth Place
  • Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
Occupation
  • Computer Saleswoman
Nominations
  • 9
exited
  • Day 57
Gender
  • Female
Nationality
  • British
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  • Melanie Hill (born 11th January 1962 in Sunderland) has appeared in Coronation Street since April 2015 as Cathy Matthews. She trained at RADA where she won the Vanbrugh award. Following her television debut in Juliet Bravo, she was the second actress to play the part of Aveline Boswell in Bread but has a long list of other credits to her name including Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Spender, Cardiac Arrest, Crocodile Shoes, The Bill, The Fugitives, Emmerdale, Meadowlands, The Street, Merlin, Cilla and Waterloo Road. Film appearances include Shopping, Brassed Off and When Saturday Comes with her then-husband Sean Bean. Stage roles include parts in Women Beware Women, Twelfth Night, Deathtrap, Breezeblock Park, Who Killed Hilda Murrell? and Fire in the Lake.
  • Melanie Hill is a housemate from Big Brother 1.
  • Hill replaced Gilly Coman as the character of Aveline in the last two series' of Carla Lane's BBC television sitcom Bread. She has also appeared in such programs as The Bill playing Marie Carver (née Graham), Auf Wiedersehen, Pet playing Hazel Redfern, Hot Money playing Liz Hoodless, Juliet Bravo playing Jean Simpson, Emmerdale playing Avril Kent and Cape Wrath playing Brenda Ogilvie. On 17 March 2009, she featured in an episode of Holby City, a medical drama broadcast weekly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. This became a recurring role, as the actress appeared in subsequent episodes, following a story arc relating to the death of her on-screen husband. She also appeared in a episode of The Thick of It in series 3 episode 3. In April 2011, she appeared in the BBC television comedy drama series Candy Cabs and in November, appeared in the fantasy series "Merlin" as Mary Howden. In April that year, she also appeared as Cissie Charlton, mother of footballers Jack and Bobby Charlton, in the BBC drama United, which was centred around the 1958 Munich air disaster involving Manchester United and in which Cissie's younger son Bobby as iwnvolved but survived. In 2012, she made her debut on long-running school drama Waterloo Road her character, Maggie Croft, is head of the canteen. Melainie Hill has also apeared in a film called Brassed Off (1996) as Sandra.She appeared as the witch Ditchwater Sal in the 2007 film Stardust and the 2009 film White Girl.
  • Melanie Hill (born 11th January 1962) is an English actress who appeared in Emmerdale in 2005 as Avril Kent. She is best known for playing Aveline Boswell in the TV sitcom Bread. She has appeared in many other programmes before and since Bread, including Juliet Bravo, Cardiac Arrest, Finney, Crocodile Shoes and it's sequel series Crocodile Shoes II, Playing the Field, NCS Manhunt, The Bill, The Fugitives, Cape Wrath, Cilla, Waterloo Road, The Syndicate and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. Since 2015, she has been appearing in Coronation Street as Cathy Matthews.
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