Yasmin Bannerman (born 1970) is an English actress. Bannerman was born and brought up in

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and attended the

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in London until 1993. She has had roles in television series such as ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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'', and in the films '' Maybe Baby'' and '' Killing Me Softly''.

Background

Yasmin Bannerman was born and brought up in

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, where she attended St Peter's Roman Catholic School. She spent time acting there and later joined the Everyman Youth Theatre in

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before beginning a degree in modern

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at the

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. She dropped out after a year to attend the

in London, graduating in 1993.Laws, Roz (29 March 2005). "I must be bark-ing". ''Sunday Mercury'': p. 3 (features).

Career

Her first television role came in 1995 when she appeared in an episode of ''

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''. Shortly afterwards she was cast as

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's soap opera ''

''. She describes her role in the soap as "demanding", though the character appeared less frequently as time went on. Further appearances include a brief role in ''

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'' and a recurring role in the

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of ''

'' as Jessica Barnes, a local political activist who has an affair with David Marsden (played by

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).Ellard, Andrew (20 April 2001).
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. reddwarf.co.uk. Retrieved 30 March 2008. In the same year she appeared in

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's '' Maybe Baby'' as Melinda. Further appearances include roles in ''

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'', ''In Deep'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and an eight-episode stint in ''

''. In 2005 she played Jabe (an alien that resembles a tree) in the second episode of

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' revival of ''

''. Her audition was "shrouded in secrecy" and the part required a lengthy make-up process; the prosthetics took three hours to apply and 90 minutes to remove. Further involvement in the ''Doctor Who'' franchise includes guest roles in the

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s ''

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'' and ''The Fourth Wall'', and a part in the ''

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'' episode "

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". In 2015, she played Roz Forrester, a companion of the

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, in three novel adaptations of the Virgin New and Missing Adventures, '' Damaged Goods'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. These stories were adapted by

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. She later reprised the role in a series of four stories released in November 2018, entitled "The Seventh Doctor: The New Adventures". In 2017, Bannerman is playing

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, a character in the ''

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'' audio adventure series by

. Bannerman is the third actress to play Dayna following

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in the television series and

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in the BBC Radio series.

Filmography

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