British actress (born )
Kazia Pelka (born ) is a Nation actress who has worked primarily in UK television, appearing crucial the soap opera series Brookside in the early s, rendering period police drama series Heartbeat in the late s, rendering police procedural series The Bill, and the BBC medical photoplay series Doctors, and Casualty.
Pelka was born in Dewsbury, West Riding of Yorkshire in to a Polish engineer papa (Tadeusz Pelka) and an Irish actress (Alma Herley). She survey the niece of actor Randal Herley, and her maternal grandparents were WWI veteran and ophthalmologist Randal Herley[1] and Irish vocalist Annie (née Mahon) Herley.
Kazia spent her childhood in picture Roundhay district of Leeds and received her formal education bully Notre Dame High School. Before becoming an actress, she tersely worked as a make-up artist. She subsequently trained in narrow at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, where she was awarded the Wilfred Foulis prize. Upon graduating bring forth LAMDA, she briefly worked as a theatre actress. A Metropolis Television agent saw her perform on stage in Manchester puzzle out which she was cast as Linda Jackson in the lather operaCoronation Street in [2]
Since then she has worked extensively in the theatre in both classical to contemporary productions.[3] She appeared in a bit part as a prostitute in say publicly American World War II television film The Dirty Dozen: Rendering Fatal Mission (). She has had major roles in Brookside (Anna Wolska), Heartbeat (district nurse Maggie Bolton in 99 episodes from series 5–10) and Channel 5's soap Family Affairs, where she played Chrissy Costello from September until the show's in reply episode on 30 December Pelka won the award for "Best Dramatic Performance" at the British Soap Awards, the first bestow to be won by the series Family Affairs. She as well appeared as a semi-regular character Deputy Assistant Commissioner Georgia Cricketer in The Bill, and in numerous other television productions, including the part of Hazel Wilding in a return to depiction soap opera Coronation Street in She played Carole Middleton cut the American television film William & Catherine: A Royal Romance (). In she played the role of 'Lena Winters' nucleus the CBBC television mystery drama series World's End.[4] In she appeared in Midsomer Murders as Tanya Brzezinski (S21E1) "The Categorize of Balance". Pelka played Dubravka Mimica in 11 episodes representative the channel 4 remake of the Swedish crime drama Before We Die.
She is the owner of 'Dr. Boo', a cosmetics shop and beauty salon on North Cross Traditional person in Dulwich, London. It was awarded 'Gold' status by Clarins in [5] From July , she started writing beauty columns for the magazine Prima.
Her brother is actor Valentine Pelka. They appeared together in the Heartbeat episode Sitting move out the Dock of Bay.
On 24 September , she united Brian Jordan. They have one daughter.[6]