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Biography

Grainger is the daughter of Irish actor Gawn Grainger. After achieving three A*s and eight As in her GCSEs, and two As and two Bs in her A-levels, she has recently started studying for an English degree at the University of Leeds.[1] GCSE is an acronym that can refer to: General Certificate of Secondary Education global common subexpression elimination - an optimisation technique used by some compilers This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... An A-level, short for Advanced Level, is a General Certificate of Education usually taken during Further Education and after GCSEs. ... The University of Leeds is a major teaching and research university, one of the largest in the United Kingdom with over 32,000 full-time students. ...

Holly also attended The Madeley School Of Dance in Didsbury completeing many examinations under the NATD examination board and her last role was playing Tinkerbell in the ballet Peter Pan.

Career

She first started acting in 1994 in All Quiet on the Preston Front and went on to appear in the TV series Roger and the Rottentrolls (1996), and Daddy Fox (2000) as well as having minor roles in the dramas Casualty (2000), Doctors (2001), Dalziel and Pascoe (2001), The Royal (2003), No Angels (2005) and most recently, Waterloo Road (2007). All Quiet On The Preston Front was a BBC comedy drama about a group of friends in the fictional Lancashire town of Roker Bridge, and their links to the local Territorial Army Unit. ... Roger and the Rottentrolls first Video release Roger and the Rottentrolls (sometimes, but not in the title sequence or on DVD covers, called just The Rottentrolls) was a childrens comedy television series made for ITV by The Childrens Company, which combined puppets with live action human actors. ... Casualty is the longest running emergency medical drama series in the world[1], first broadcast in 1986 and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. ... Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel (usually known as Andy) and Detective Sergeant (later Detective Inspector) Peter Pascoe are two fictional Yorkshire detectives featuring in a series of novels by Reginald Hill and a BBC television series. ... The Royal is a British medical drama. ... No Angels, a girl group from Germany, were formed in 2000 on the international television sensation Popstars, a precursor to the Idol shows. ... Waterloo Road is a BBC television drama series about a comprehensive school, its teachers and students. ...

She also appeared in the TV dramas The Missing Postman (1997), Sparkhouse (2002), and The Illustrated Mum (2003). A television movie (also TV movie, TV-movie, made-for-TV movie, etc. ...

In 2003, she landed the role of Megan Boothe in Where The Heart Is. She left the role in 2005 and the character was played by Holly Lucas in the 2006 series.

She has most recently appeared in a TV adaptation of Johnny and the Bomb (2006), and in the 2007 ITV1 production of The Bad Mother's Handbook based on the best-selling novel. She will next be seen in the the new series of New Street Law. Johnny and the Bomb is a 1996 novel by Terry Pratchett. ... The Bad Mothers Handbook was a one-off episode based on the best-selling novel: The Bad Mothers Handbook by Kate Long. ...

References

External links

• Holly Grainger at the Internet Movie Database