Sarah Moyle (born 14 September 1969) is an English actress, known for her roles as Linda Fawcett in various stage productions of ''

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'' and Valerie Pitman in the

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soap opera '' Doctors''. Moyle also portrayed the recurring role of Caroline Swann in the ITV soap opera ''

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''. For her role as Valerie in ''Doctors'', Moyle won the award for Best Comedic Performance at the

2019 British Soap Awards The 2019 British Soap Awards honoured the best in British soap operas throughout 2018 and 2019. The ceremony was held on 1 June 2019 at the Lowry theatre in Salford Quays, Salford, and was broadcast live on ITV1 and STV. The publicly voted c ...

Career

Moyle trained at Bodywork Dance Studios, has a

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in Performance Art from

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, and studied for six months at

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. From 1988 to 1991, she was a member of

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. Moyle began her career in 1992 with roles in theatre, her first being in ''Lust'' at

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, directed by

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. In her early career, Moyle portrayed roles in ''

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'', ''

Oliver! ''Oliver!'' is a coming-of-age stage musical, with book, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the 1838 novel '' Oliver Twist'' by Charles Dickens. It premiered at the Wimbledon Theatre, southwest London in 1960 before ...

'', ''

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'' and ''

My Fair Lady ''My Fair Lady'' is a musical theatre, musical based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play ''Pygmalion (play), Pygmalion'', with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flowe ...

''. Her stage career also includes parts in '' Drowning on Dry Land'' and ''

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'' written for her by Sir Alan Ayckbourn. In 2010, Moyle played the role of Linda Fawcett in ''

'' at the

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and the

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, before taking it to

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at the

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. In 2012, Moyle was cast in the

soap opera '' Doctors''. In 2016, Moyle was nominated for Best Female Dramatic Performance and Best Comedy Performance at the

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, but lost out to

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and

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who play

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and Mary Taylor respectively. In 2018, she made her writing debut after writing an episode of ''Doctors'', titled "The Wager", which aired on 31 May 2018. In 2019, Moyle won Best Comedy Performance at the British Soap Awards. In 2020, Moyle wrote another episode of ''Doctors'', titled "Targeted Individual". Moyle announced her decision to leave ''Doctors'' in August 2022 and confirmed that Valerie's final scenes will air in 2023.

Personal life

In September 2018, Moyle cycled 282 km across Rwanda to raise money and awareness for Hope and Homes for Children. She is also an advocate for the

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, and ran the 2000

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to raise money for the charity. In 2020, Moyle raised money for the charity of which she is patron, Embracing Arts, by cycling 46 miles around London.

Stage

Filmography

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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