celebforum - Sacha Parkinson

Sacha Parkinson was born on the 11th March 1992 in Salford and is now living in Wigan. She is a British teenage actress.

Sacha is best known for playing Anna Duncan in the 2007 series of the BBC school drama, Grange Hill, and most recently for playing Sian Powers in popular ITV1 soap Coronation Street.

Parkinson's earliest recorded TV role was in the Channel 4's Films4Schools adaptation of Jacqueline Wilsons The Illustrated Mum in which she played Tasha alongside Michelle Collins & Holly Grainger.

More recently Sacha has become a more prominent figure on British TV screens with appearances in The Bill as Rose Sterling, Lisa in Waterloo Road and Cassie Sawyer in Doctors alongside Steve Beckett and Diane Keen. Sacha has also appeared in The Royal as Polly Cruickshank a tearaway school girl who contracts TB.

In an extremely emotional & moving episode of Survivors Sacha plays Kate who's family have been held under house arrest by their nuerotic & paranoid father after a deadly virus sweeps across the world alongside the likes of Max Beasley, Joseph Patterson and Neil Dudgeon. In the an episode of Shameless Sacha plays gobby Tracey Kelvin and in the feature film Awaydays set in Liverpool in the 1970's, she again joined forces with Holly Grainger and a cast such as Steven Graham, Nicky Bell, Liam Boyle, Lee Battle and Oliver Lee where she played Natasha the girlfriend of Carty. She also played Shannon Peterson in Jimmy McGoverns The Street again teaming up with Neil Dudgeon as her characters father, Lee Battle as her characters brother and Lindsey Coulsen. Most recently Parkinson was seen as Maria O'Callaghan in the dark and mysterious BBC children's drama set in the North East Clay.

With one further feature film to add to the long list, Sacha played the role of Leanne a teenage mother who's baby is abducted by its equally as young father played by award winning Kyle Ward who then embarks on an emotional rollercoaster of a journey to try and become a good dad in a Made Up North Production of A Boy Called Dad which is to be released in March 2010.

On 15 December 2008, it was announced Sacha was to join British soap opera Coronation Street, [1] where she will play Sian Powers. Sian first appeared onscreen on 26 January 2009, she is the girlfriend of Sophie Webster and ex-girlfriend of Ryan Connor. She also took part in the soap's first lesbian kiss with Sophie Webster, which aired on 11 April 2010.

Sacha is currently with North West based TV and Film Agents Laine Management and has been represented by Laine since the age of 6.