Laura Sadler in Holby City

Laura Sadler (December 25, 1980 – June 19, 2003) was an English actress best known for her role as nurse Sandy Harper in the BBC ONE hospital drama series Holby City. Image File history File links Laura Sadler, the UK actress in her role in Holby City This work is copyrighted. ... Holby City is a TV series that began in 1999. ... December 25 is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 6 days remaining. ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 195 days remaining. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Ethnicity... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... BBC One (or BBC1 as it was formerly styled) is the oldest television station in the world. ... A physician visiting the sick in a hospital. ... Drama is a term generally used to refer to a literary form involving parts written for actors to perform. ... Holby City is a TV series that began in 1999. ...

She was born in Ascot, Berkshire, and took up television acting as a young girl. Before joining the cast of Holby City, her best-known role had been as the character Judi Jeffreys in the children's television series Grange Hill from 1997 to 1999. Ascot is a large village in the English county of Berkshire. ... For other places named Berkshire, see: Berkshire (disambiguation) Berkshire (IPA: or  ; sometimes abbreviated to Berks) is a county in the south of England, to the west of London and also bordering on Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Greater London, Surrey, Wiltshire and Hampshire. ... Childrens television shows are television programs designed for and marketed to children, normally aired during the morning and afternoon hours, mainly before and after school. ... Grange Hill is a British childrens television drama series which is shown on BBC1. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

In 1996 she starred in the feature film Intimate Relations alongside Julie Walters, where she played a Lolita-like girl with a crush on her mother's adulterous lover. 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Intimate Relations is a 1996 British movie It was the first movie by writer and director Philip Goodhew and starred Rupert Graves and Julie Walters. ... Julie Walters (born February 22, 1950) is a British actress of Irish Catholic extraction, mainly associated with comedy and character roles. ... Lolita is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first published in 1955. ...

She joined the cast of Holby City, a spin-off series from the long-running BBC medical drama series Casualty, in the show's third series. A spin-off (or spinoff) is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one such as a new company formed from a university research group. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

In the early hours of June 15, 2003, she fell 40 feet (12 metres) from the rear window of a block of flats in Holland Park, an area of west London, apparently having previously taken alcohol and cocaine. The building was the home of her boyfriend, fellow Holby City actor George Calil. She suffered severe head injuries, and never regained consciousness. She died at Charing Cross Hospital on June 19, after a decision by her family the previous day to have her life support system turned off. June 15 is the 166th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (167th in leap years), with 199 days remaining. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A foot (plural: feet) is a non-SI unit of distance or length, measuring around a third of a metre. ... The metre, or meter, is the basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International dUnités). ... Holland Park is a place in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in central London. ... St. ... In general usage, alcohol (from Arabic al-khwl الكحول, or al-ghawl الغول) refers almost always to ethanol, also known as grain alcohol, and often to any beverage that contains ethanol (see alcoholic beverage). ... Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... George Calil (born 1973) is an actor whose most notable role to date was in the TV mini-series Band of Brothers. ... June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 195 days remaining. ... This article is about life support systems for outer space or underwater. ...

Her boyfriend Calil, aged 30, who played her character's drug-dealing boyfriend Sean Hunt in Holby City, was arrested for questioning, before being released on bail. On June 26 police announced that the death was being treated as accidental and no further action would be taken. Retail selling Street selling is the bottom of the chain and can be accomplished through purchasing from prostitutes, through cloaked retail stores or refuse houses for users in the act located in red-light districts which often also deal in paraphernalia, dealers marketing merriment at night clubs and other events... June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 188 days remaining. ...

Laura Sadler continued to feature in pre-recorded episodes of Holby City after her death. Laura's mother took part in writing her daughter's character, Sandy, out of Holby City, in which she won the lottery and subsequently emigrated out of the country. A lottery is a popular form of gambling which involves the drawing of lots for a prize. ...

External links

• Laura Sadler at the Internet Movie Database
• Holby actor speaks of shock - a BBC News article dated Monday, 16 June, 2003
• Actress Laura Sadler dies - a BBC News article dated Thursday, 19 June, 2003
• Your tributes to Laura Sadler" - a BBC News article dated Thursday, 19 June, 2003
• Candles for Laura - tribute site
• Laura Sadler - tribute page