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

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in '' Waterloo Road''. Potts is the sister of actor

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. 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 from the established BBC medical drama '' Casualty'', and ...

'' as Senior Nurse

Eddi McKee Eddi McKee is a fictional character from the BBC medical drama ''Holby City'', played by actress Sarah-Jane Potts. She first appeared in the thirteenth series episode "Rescue Me", broadcast on 7 June 2011. Eddi was a Senior Nurse at Holby City ...

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 that, "In the three years I have been acting I have spent most of the time looking dirty, scruffy, ill or tarty."

Personal life

Potts attended Bradford'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 Sweden 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,

Joseph Millson Joseph Millson (born 27 April 1974) is an English actor and singer. He trained at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in Sidcup, London. Personal life Millson married singer and actress Caroline Fitzgerald in the summer of 1999. The ...

, while working together on the medical drama ''

'' and married him on 31 December 2013.

Filmography

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* * * 1976 births Living people English television actresses English film actresses Actresses from Bradford 20th-century English actresses 21st-century English actresses {{England-actor-stub