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Roxanne Pallett
Pallett at the Star Charity Ball Manchester, 2011
Born	(1982-12-26) 26 December 1982 (age 42) Carlisle, Cumbria, England
Alma mater	Liverpool John Moores University
Occupation(s)	Actress, singer, radio presenter
Years active	2005–present
Website	roxannepallettofficial.com

Roxanne Pallett (born 26 December 1982) is an English actress best known for playing the role of Jo Sugden in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale from 2005 to 2008. She was crowned the winner of Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes (2006), and also appeared in Soapstar Superstar (2006) and Dancing on Ice (2009). She has won critical acclaim for numerous stage roles in theatre and is known as a scream queen for appearances in several horror films, including Lake Placid 3 (2010), Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort (2014) and Devil's Tower (2014), and the art-house film Habit (2016).

She played the role of a teenager in the BBC drama Waterloo Road when she was 29.

On 16 August 2018, Pallett participated in the UK Television show Celebrity Big Brother as a celebrity housemate.

Early life

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Pallett was born in Carlisle, Cumbria and brought up in Currock by her mother and grandmother. Her maternal grandfather was Italian and her absent father is Iranian. Her father abandoned her mother Monica when Roxanne was a few days old and has never been a part of her life. She lost her home in a serious house fire age 16. Several months later, her grandmother, who raised her, died of cancer. Educated at Robert Ferguson Primary School and Trinity School, she then graduated with a BA Honours degree in Media, majoring in Film Studies, from Liverpool John Moores University. Pallett studied at the Manchester School of Screen Acting on weekends, and began auditioning for acting roles outside her studies to make up for not going to stage school. Pallett was a volunteer at Carlisle's Eden Valley Hospice during the summer, as a form of gratitude to them caring for her grandma in her last days.

Career

In her last year at university, Pallett co-formed girl band Urban Angel, writing songs for them with producer ex-East 17 member and Ivor Novello award winner Tony Mortimer who she credits as one of her closest friends even to this day. After landing a deal with a record label, Pallett spent a year developing her music in London and co-creating a TV show that she would be later left out of. She later auditioned for several roles in Emmerdale and was offered the role of Jo Stiles. Pallett won critical acclaim for her major domestic violence storyline in 2008–09.

In August 2008, Pallett became the public face of the Early Warning Signs campaign for UK domestic violence charity Refuge, that urges young women to look out for early signs where a partner may turn violent in a relationship. During her 130 shows and three years on Emmerdale, she was nominated for several awards as Sexiest Female, Best Storyline, and Best Actress at The British Soap Awards 2007, 2008, 2009, the Inside Soap Awards, and TV Quick Awards 2008.

In November 2005, Pallett won an unaired episode of Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes as Gloria Estefan. In January 2006, she appeared in the ITV entertainment singing show Soapstar Superstar, finishing fourth in January 2006, and raising over £70,000 for her supported charity the Eden Valley Hospice Jigsaw Appeal. It was on this show that she met her then partner, actor Richard Fleeshman. She regularly topped the 'sexiest' poll awards, cementing her as one of the 100 Most Sexiest Women in the World by FHM in 2006. Pallett embraced the pin-up status brought on by her soap role and did photoshoots for Loaded and Maxim.

In 2007, Rosa Roxanne Pallett, a deep red hybrid rose, was named after Pallett and launched at the 2007 Southport Flower Show by Cheshire-based grower C&K Jones.

After leaving Emmerdale, Pallett took part in the fourth series of ITV's Dancing on Ice, which began on 11 January 2009 with professional partner Daniel Whiston; the couple made headlines for the risque move The Headbanger. She was voted off unanimously by the judges following a skate-off with former Blue Peter presenter Zoe Salmon. Pallett then went on the Dancing on Ice Bolero Anniversary UK Tour 2009. Scheduled to play the lead role in 2009 Christmas pantomime Cinderella at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne, she left three weeks into the run following the death of her best friend.

In 2010, Pallett filmed a guest role for the BBC's Casualty. She took to the stage as the lead in Rock Around The Clock, making her professional stage debut, which toured the country until September 2010. Also in 2010, she made her film debut in Lake Placid 3.

In September 2010, Pallett toured with Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues, opposite Nikki Sanderson and Sue Jenkins. Pallett won rave reviews having starred as the female lead (Teena Satin) in the rep theatre run of Satin 'N' Steel at the Oldham Coliseum Theatre, from 14 April through 7 May 2010, directed by Joyce Branagh. The two-hander play also starred Matt Healy.

In 2012, Pallett played a troubled 17 year old school girl, Shelby Dixon, in BBC's Waterloo Road, a role that was twelve years younger than the actress herself in real life and then a guest role in Casualty as psychotic character Keeley Hyatt. That same year, she was cast as Sarah McColl in British horror film Devil's Tower. as she admitted to method acting and surviving off 5 hours of sleep a night during the shoot which required her to work eighteen-hour days over a period of two months. She then began filming an urban comedy for Kaleidoscope Pictures, 'It's A Lot' playing the quirky college misfit Louise. The film was released in November 2013. From 20 December 2012 until 11 May 2013, Pallett played Janet Weiss in the 40th anniversary UK tour of The Rocky Horror Show.

In June 2013, Pallett received critical acclaim for her comedic role on stage as Shelley in Ladies' Day for The Royal Court, Liverpool. In 2014, Pallett began filming a new British film The Violators in Merseyside and was then confirmed for a role in the 20th Century Fox horror film Wrong Turn 6, which began filming in March 2014.

Pallett then landed the lead role of Bev in On The Piste written and directed by BAFTA winning playwright John Godber.

In 2016, Pallett began filming British thriller Habit, an arthouse movie based on the Stephen McGeagh novel. She then took to the stage in London to star as Tyler in Neil LaBute's Some Girls at Park Theatre which won a nomination as well as rave reviews. Pallett then worked on a national campaign for Age UK and was made ambassador for the charity which supports the elderly.

In 2016 Pallett began a successful run in the Broadway production of the eighties musical The Wedding Singer based on the Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore movie. She starred alongside Ray Quinn and Ruth Madoc in the stage musical. In April 2017, Pallett unexpectedly yet defiantly left the production mid-way through its run after rave review, leaving audiences speculating that she was mistreated in the wake of then speaking out about sexual harassment in theatre amidst the Weinstein scandal. In February 2018, Pallett was announced as the new breakfast co-host on Minster FM after admitting in a statement that she had felt unfulfilled and undervalued as an actress for many years so therefore wanted to use her degree in media to venture into broadcasting as a new chapter and a new creative challenge.

In July 2018, whilst doing a segment for Minster FM with co-host Ben Fry, Pallett was involved in an accident whilst driving an F2 Outlaw Stock Car at Hunmanby Raceway, North Yorkshire. Pallett had driven head on into a concrete wall on the first bend at high speed, and had to be cut free from the mangled wreckage by firefighters which took two hours. Pallett was then airlifted to hospital by air ambulance with two sprained wrists, severe bruising and concussion.

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External links

• Roxanne Pallett at IMDb

• 1982 births
• Alumni of Liverpool John Moores University
• English female singers
• British people of English descent
• English people of Italian descent
• English people of Iranian descent
• English musical theatre actresses
• English soap opera actresses
• English television actresses
• Living people
• Participants in British reality television series
• People from Carlisle, Cumbria