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Olivia Hallinan is a Actor British born on 20 january 1984 at Hounslow (United-kingdom)

Olivia Hallinan

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Birth name Olivia Hallinan
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 20 january 1984 (40 years) at Hounslow (United-kingdom)

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.

Biography

Hallinan is from Twickenham, west London, and is the second youngest of four sisters, including Clemency Hallinan of The Inbetweeners fame. 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.


Acting career
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.

While at Manchester, Hallinan was actively involved in student drama. In 2006, her final year of her degree, she starred in a new play, Wake Me Later Nicola Schofield's In the same year she played Emma in the Torchwood episode Out of Time, appeared in an episode of Trial and Retribution, and played a character in Radio 4's dramatisation of Marguerite Duras's erotic novel The Lover, broadcast between 3 and 7 September 2007.

She starred as Laura Timmins in the BBC production Lark Rise to Candleford which first aired on Sunday 13 January 2008, appearing in all four series. 2011 saw her film debut as she starred in the British film noir Jack Falls as Natasha.

In 2011 Hallinan starred in Precious Little Talent written by Ella Hickson and directed by James Dacre at Trafalgar Studios theatre in London's West End.

In December 2011 Hallinan played the role of Justine in Lucinda Coxon's play "Herding Cats" at the Hampstead Theatre, London, a role she previously played at the Ustinov Studio, Bath in December 2010.

In 2014 Hallinan appeared in Lotty's War (written by Giuliano Crispini and directed by Bruce Guthrie) at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, before touring the UK.

Usually with

Dominic Burns
Dominic Burns
(1 films)
David Oakes
David Oakes
(1 films)
Martin Kemp
Martin Kemp
(1 films)
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Filmography of Olivia Hallinan (3 films)

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Love by Design, 1h30
Directed by Michael Damian
Genres Romance
Actors Jane Seymour, David Oakes, Olivia Hallinan, Anthony Hickox, Andrew Pleavin
Roles Claire
Rating56% 2.8483252.8483252.8483252.8483252.848325
Danielle (qui est styliste pour un magazine de mode new-yorkais) qui en plus de supporter les caprices de sa directrice, se fait voler un projet par une collègue. Licenciée, elle retourne dans sa famille en Roumanie et se remet à la couture dans une usine de textile. Elle crée alors une robe d'inspiration folklorique qui remporte un grand succès auprès de ses consœurs, mais l'usine est sur le point d'être fermée par son propriétaire...
Jack Falls
Jack Falls (2011)

Directed by Dominic Burns
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors Tamer Hassan, Simon Phillips, Olivia Hallinan, Dexter Fletcher, Doug Bradley, Dominic Burns
Roles Natasha
Rating42% 2.117072.117072.117072.117072.11707
Surviving a murder attempt in Amsterdam, former undercover police officer Jack Adleth returns to London to seek revenge and settle some old scores, but he soon finds himself in danger not just from his former criminal associates, but his old police colleagues too. As he battles to stay alive, he must also deal with the guilt from the consequences of his undercover life.