Harriet Jessica Phoebe “Hetti” Bywater (born 10 September 1994) is an English former actress. She is best known for portraying
Lucy Beale
Lucy Beale is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera '' EastEnders''. The character was played by Eva Brittin-Snell (from 1993 to 1996), Casey Anne Rothery (from 1996 until 2004), Melissa Suffield (from 2004 to 2010), and Hetti Bywater ...
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soap opera
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''
EastEnders'', taking over the role from
Melissa Suffield
Melissa Holly Suffield (born 24 December 1992) is a
former English actress from London, best known for her role in the BBC soap opera '' EastEnders'' as Lucy Beale. Her first appearance on the show was 28 October 2004, and her last was on 27 Au ...
in January 2012 until the character’s murder in April 2014.
Early life
Bywater was born in
Sedlescombe
Sedlescombe is a village and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex, England. The village is on the B2244 road, about north of Hastings. The parish includes the hamlet of Kent Street, which is on the A21 road.
The parish is in ...
,
East Sussex
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to
Welsh
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Related to Wales
* Welsh, referring or related to Wales
* Welsh language, a Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Wales
* Welsh people
People
* Welsh (surname)
* Sometimes used as a synonym for the ancient Britons (Celtic peopl ...
parents originally from
Swansea. She studied
performing arts at The Theatre Workshop in
Sussex, and from the ages of 13 to 15 attended
Claverham Community College
Claverham Community College is a comprehensive secondary school/community college in Battle, East Sussex, England. It has sports facilities such as a climbing wall, Community Sports Hall, gym, dance studio, fitness suite, and playing fields.
...
in
Battle, East Sussex
Battle is a small town and civil parish in the local government district of Rother in East Sussex, England. It lies south-east of London, east of Brighton and east of Lewes. Hastings is to the south-east and Bexhill-on-Sea to the south. ...
.
Acting career
Bywater began her career in 2011 by making guest appearances in ''
Casualty
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*Casualty (person), a person who is killed or rendered unfit for service in a war or natural disaster
**Civilian casualty, a non-combatant killed or injured in warfare
* The emergency department of a hospital, also known a ...
'' and ''
Doctors''. She also had a minor in the ''
St George's Day
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Sai ...
'' film in the same year. Bywater had a guest appearance in the fourth series of ''
Death in Paradise'' in 2015,. Between 2016 and 2017, Bywater guest starred in two episodes of the first series of the
Sky One
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drama ''
Delicious
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Fruits
* Golden Delicious, a cultivar of apple
* Red Delicious, several cultivars of apple
Other
* ''Delicious'' (film), a 1931 Hollywood musical
* ''Delicious'' (TV series), a 2016 British TV series starring Dawn Fren ...
''.
''EastEnders''
Bywater’s most notable role was in ''
EastEnders'' in 2012 as
Lucy Beale
Lucy Beale is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera '' EastEnders''. The character was played by Eva Brittin-Snell (from 1993 to 1996), Casey Anne Rothery (from 1996 until 2004), Melissa Suffield (from 2004 to 2010), and Hetti Bywater ...
, taking over from
Melissa Suffield
Melissa Holly Suffield (born 24 December 1992) is a
former English actress from London, best known for her role in the BBC soap opera '' EastEnders'' as Lucy Beale. Her first appearance on the show was 28 October 2004, and her last was on 27 Au ...
.
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In 2014, it was announced that the character of Lucy would be murdered, introducing a whodunnit
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storyline (“Who Killed Lucy Beale?
"Who Killed Lucy Beale?" is a storyline from the BBC soap opera '' EastEnders''. It was announced on 21 February 2014 and began on 18 April 2014, when Lucy Beale ( Hetti Bywater) was discovered dead on Walford Common from a deliberately infli ...
”) that would run until the show’s 30th anniversary in February 2015, when the identity of the murderer was revealed.
Filmography
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References
External links
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Living people
People from Eastbourne
1994 births
British television actresses
English people of Welsh descent
21st-century British actresses
British soap opera actresses
Actresses from Sussex
English child actresses
British child actresses
People from Sedlescombe
21st-century English women
21st-century English people
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