Sarah-Jane Potts (born 30 August 1976) is an English actress, best known for her roles as Saint (Sarah) in '' Sugar Rush'', Ellie, Abs' on/off girlfriend in ''

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'' and Jo Lipsett in '' Waterloo Road''. Potts is the sister of actor Andrew-Lee Potts. From 2011 to 2012, she appeared in ''

Holby City ''Holby City'' (stylised on-screen as HOLBY CIY) is a British medical drama television series that aired weekly on BBC One. It was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a Spin-off (media), spin-off from the established BBC medical drama '' ...

'' as Senior Nurse Eddi McKee on AAU, playing a different character to the one she played in ''Casualty''. Potts left ''Holby City'' in the second episode of Series 15; her departure was kept a secret by the production team and was not reported at all by the media, resulting in a shock exit for her character. Early in her career she noted: "In the three years I have been acting I have spent most of the time looking dirty, scruffy, ill or tarty." In 2023, Potts attended East London LGBTQ+ Film Festival and virtually introduced '' Kinky Boots''.

Personal life

Potts attended

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's Scala Kids stage school with her brother Andrew. As a teenager she worked in a

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cafe in Bradford. She left school during her

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s to star in ''Meat''. From 1999 to 2001, she dated

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. They met at a film festival in

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during the summer of 1999 and at the end of the year she moved to

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to live with him. She met her former husband,

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, when filming ''

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'' and they were married in June 2002. She has a son, named Buster Alan Denman, born 2004. She met her second husband,

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, while working together on the medical drama ''

'' and married him on 31 December 2013.

Filmography

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