Kara Tointon - Biography
British actress, best known for playing
popular BBC soap opera EastEnders.
Tointon is 5ft 5in tall. She was born in Basildon in Essex but shortly afterwards moved to Southend. Her younger sister Hannah is an actress.
Tointon began her acting career at age seven. She had speech and drama lessons in school. She took part in LAMDA examinations, entering local musical festivals performing poetry recitals. Her first proper acting experience came when she played the part of Brigitta in The Sound of Music at the Cliffs Pavillion, where she met ex Busted member James Bourne, who played Kurt.
The couple dated on seven years. Tointon was said to have dumped Bourne when Busted split up, apparently because Bourne was no longer in a band but both parties have denied this, stating they split up five months previous due to scheduling conflicts. Shortly after, her first paid job was as a children in the pantomime Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Her first appearance on tv was as an extra in EastEnders in 1994 when she played a school friend of Sonia Fowler.
In 2004, Tointon appeared in Mile High and in December returned to her former Dream Team role as Gina Moliano until May 2005. It is on the set of Dream Team that she met her former boyfriend Terry Kiely, who played Karl Fletcher in the show. The couple announced a split in the summer of 2006. Tointon is now dating her former EastEnders co star, James Alexandrou.
Tointon is also a trained in dance, specializing in aerobics, ballet, choreography, contemporary, jazz and tap. She also enjoys cabaret singing. In her spare time she enjoys painting, shopping, swimming, skiing and spending time with her friends and family.
Almost a month to the day that her last Dream Team episode aired, it was revealed to the press she be join EastEnders as a new character, Dawn Swann.
In April 2006 she featured as number 27 in the list of 100 sexiest women in the world, voted for the by the readers of FHM magazine and featured as number 86 on the 2007 list. In September 2006 she was voted sexiest female at the Inside Soap Awards. She has had a MySpace, Bebo or Facebook account.
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