Olivia Hallinan (born 20 January 1985) is an English actress best
known for her role as Laura Timmins in the BBC TV series Lark Rise to
Candleford and also as Kim in the Channel 4 drama Sugar Rush. She also
starred as Ellie in Girls in Love.Hallinan is from Twickenham, west
London, and is the second youngest of four sisters, including Clemency
Hallinan of The Inbetweeners and The X Factor fame. Olivia Hallinan
began training at her mother's Saturday drama school All Expressions
in Teddington when she was 11, and then went on to professional
acting. After attending St Catherine's School in Twickenham, and
Notting Hill & Ealing High School, in Ealing, Hallinan went on to
study English and Drama at the University of Manchester.Hallinan has
appeared in over 100 productions since the age of seven. Her first
professional role was playing alongside Cilla Black in a 1991
production of Jack and the Beanstalk. Since then, she has appeared in
theatre, radio, film and on television shows including The Bill, Holby
City, My Family, Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde and Granada TV's, Girls
in Love. At the end of her first year at the University of Manchester,
Hallinan appeared in the first of two series of the cult TV drama
Sugar Rush for Channel 4, based on the Julie Burchill novel. On 9 June
2007, Hallinan was a speaker at the Stonewall Gay Youth Conference,
talking about playing a lesbian character in Sugar Rush.
known for her role as Laura Timmins in the BBC TV series Lark Rise to
Candleford and also as Kim in the Channel 4 drama Sugar Rush. She also
starred as Ellie in Girls in Love.Hallinan is from Twickenham, west
London, and is the second youngest of four sisters, including Clemency
Hallinan of The Inbetweeners and The X Factor fame. Olivia Hallinan
began training at her mother's Saturday drama school All Expressions
in Teddington when she was 11, and then went on to professional
acting. After attending St Catherine's School in Twickenham, and
Notting Hill & Ealing High School, in Ealing, Hallinan went on to
study English and Drama at the University of Manchester.Hallinan has
appeared in over 100 productions since the age of seven. Her first
professional role was playing alongside Cilla Black in a 1991
production of Jack and the Beanstalk. Since then, she has appeared in
theatre, radio, film and on television shows including The Bill, Holby
City, My Family, Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde and Granada TV's, Girls
in Love. At the end of her first year at the University of Manchester,
Hallinan appeared in the first of two series of the cult TV drama
Sugar Rush for Channel 4, based on the Julie Burchill novel. On 9 June
2007, Hallinan was a speaker at the Stonewall Gay Youth Conference,
talking about playing a lesbian character in Sugar Rush.
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