Serena Evans (born 2 December 1959) is a British actress who is best known for playing Police Sergeant Patricia Dawkins in the sitcom '' The Thin Blue Line'' which was shown on

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from 1995 to 1996. She also had a regular role as Sarah Chapman in ITV sitcom ''

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'', and appeared in six episodes of ''

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'' playing various characters, such as the schoolgirl, in 'The Bad News Tour'. Evans is the daughter of actors

Tenniel Evans Walter Tenniel Evans (17 May 1926 – 10 June 2009) was a British actor. Family Walter Tenniel Evans was born in Nairobi, Kenya. His middle name derived from the illustrator Sir John Tenniel, a distant relation.Leslie Banks Leslie James Banks Commander of the Order of the British Empire, CBE (9 June 1890 – 21 April 1952) was an English stage and screen actor, director and producer, now best remembered for playing gruff, menacing characters in black-and-white fi ...

on her mother's side; her brother Matthew Evans is a TV director. On her father's side she is a direct descendant of Isaac Evans, brother of Mary Ann Evans otherwise known as author

George Eliot Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrot ...

. She is married to the actor Daniel Flynn and they have two children together. In 2010, Evans appeared in the role of Mistress Page in ''

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'' at Shakespeare's

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in London. Between 2018 and 2021, she starred in the horror drama, ''Approaching Shadows''; the film premiered at the

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in London on 3 December 2021, had a private VIP screening at Vue Rhyl on 21 March 2022, and released digitally on 1 July 2022, through many platforms such as

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and

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* 1959 births Living people British television actresses 21st-century English actresses 20th-century English actresses Actresses from London People from Westminster Actors from the City of Westminster {{UK-screen-actor-stub