Sandra Huggett (born in

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, England) is an English actress. She grew up in

Ross-on-Wye Ross-on-Wye is a market town and civil parish in Herefordshire, England, near the border with Wales. It had a population estimated at 10,978 in 2021. It lies in the south-east of the county, on the River Wye and on the northern edge of the Fore ...

, Herefordshire, but now lives in East Sussex. Her father was professional golfer

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. She attended both Haberdashers Monmouth School For Girls and

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. Before she started acting, she used to be a test-driver for the car manufacturer Ford. Her first role on TV was in 1997, when she was part of the original cast of Channel 5's soap opera '' Family Affairs''. She played bisexual Holly Hart for two years, until her character was written out by being killed in a boat explosion. She dated her ''Family Affairs'' co-star and on-screen twin brother, Rocky Marshall, but they split up as she said, "Going out with him was odd I suppose. Some people find it difficult to divorce soap from reality. I enjoyed it but we just grew apart". She is most well known in the UK for her role as S.H.O. Holly Miles, in the long-running BBC medical drama series, '' Casualty'', which she played for two years, for series 14 and 15 of the show. Sandra had a major storyline in series 15, when her character Holly was terrorized by a stalker, which was resolved in the series finale. Holly also had an on/off relationship with Dr. Patrick Spiller (

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), which proved popular. Huggett's contract wasn't renewed and she left the show in 2001. Since leaving ''Casualty'', Huggett has appeared in many other TV shows, such as '' Doctors'' as Fleur Rogers, '' Sweet Medicine'', ''Too Good To Be True'', ''If The Lights Go Out'', '' According to Bex'', ''Donovan'', ''

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'' and '' Goldplated''. In 2013 she played the role of Shirley Wilson in the BBC supernatural drama ''In The Flesh''. Huggett went on to do theatre work, appearing in ''Saturday Night Fever'' which toured around England, and ''Same Time Next Year'' in which she starred alongside fellow ''Casualty'' actor

. She has also appeared in several films, including the lead role in the 2003

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''Girl on a Cycle'' with Sean Hughes and Nicholas Rowe. She also does voice-over work for adverts and television documentaries. In May 2016 Huggett played Maxine in BBC One drama '' In the Club'' by Kay Mellor. She is currently in ITV soap opera ''

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'', playing DS MacKinnon. She first appeared in this role in November 2016. 2014 In season 7 of

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's '' Not Going Out'', she played Karen, an alcohol counsellor.

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Sandra Huggett at Sue Terry Voices
{{DEFAULTSORT:Huggett, Sandra Living people English television actresses English soap opera actresses People from Ross-on-Wye Actresses from Surrey People educated at Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls Year of birth missing (living people) Actresses from East Sussex Actresses from Herefordshire