LOULO GROUPIES!

From an early age Louise attended dance and drama classes and by the time she was 14, she was performing in TV commercials. She made an Aids awareness short (Wax Doll directed by Jon Amiel) in which she played a heroin user and then appeared in episodes of Casualty and Bergerac for the BBC, and Capital City, Catherine Cookson's A Black Velvet Gown, Perfect Scoundrels and Chancer (with Clive Owen and Simon Shepherd) for Independent Television (ITV). She also took on a number of film roles including the critically acclaimed Angels with Tom Bell and Twice Upon a Time with Tim Roth, before becoming a household name playing the lead role in the BBC's The House of Eliott. House of Eliott was a huge success, it's three series' regularly getting over 15 million viewers on its Saturday or Sunday night prime-time slot. Louise played Evie, younger of the two Eliott sisters, who ran a fashion house in London in the 1920s. In 1993 Louise was nominated for Best Actress in a Dramatic Series in the Cable Ace Awards in America.Louise then took a couple of years away from the small screen to take on several theatre roles: in London, working with Sir Peter Hall, and in Manchester with Michael Frayn, in an adaptation of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov at The Royal Exchange.Her next step was to do an independent Irish film with Noel Pearson (producer of My Left Foot) called Gold in the Streets. It was set in New York and also starred Jared Harris, Aiden Gillen and Ian Hart. Following a successful pilot show, Louise then did a series for ITV called Bodyguards with Sean Pertwee and John Shrapnel where she played a tough, personal bodyguard in a physically demanding action role.Her next job saw her playing an archaeologist in Talos the Mummy, a special effects laden adventure which had a large cast including Jason Scott Lee and Christopher Lee. The following spring she took on the lead role in Ester part of the Emmy award winning series of Bible stories with the Academy Award winner F Murray Abraham playing her father.In June '98, she set off to Cape Town to take on her next role, that of a South African dancer in After The Rain. Taken from the stage play of the same name and set during the Apartheid era, the story examines the complex relationships between Louise's character Emma, her Afrikaner boyfriend who deserts from his army regiment, and Emma's friend from work, a black lighting technician. When the boyfriend arrives home unexpectedly after going AWOL he finds Emma and her pal at their flat, assumes the worst, pulls a gun and a siege ensues with tragic consequences.Louise came back to England and decided to take up the offer of a place at Cambridge University to study English Literature.She returned to the small screen in Metropolis which followed six university friends at work and play in London.In the year 2000 Louise starred in a Dutch feature called Claim where she played maritime insurance investigator, Ellen Brackman, who finds herself travelling from Amsterdam to Buenos Aires on the trail of a multi-million dollar shipping fraud. The film also featured Billy Zane as the Argentinean fixer assigned to help Ellen negotiate her way around the South American wheelers and dealers.At the end of 2000 Louise played opposite Richard Harris, Paul McGann, Aiden Quinn and Lynn Redgrave in My Kingdom a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear set in Liverpool's underworld where drugs, prostitution and murder are all par for the course. The film was recently exhibited at Cannes and the Toronto International Film Festival.Louise started 2001 with a children's film called Diggity: a Home at Last, which also featured Andrew McCarthy. 2002 saw Louise spending more of her time in Los Angeles where she made a pilot for NBC about war correspondents called War Stories. She starred alongside Jeff Goldblum. She then teamed up with Alec Baldwin to make a TV film called Second Nature which was shown on the TNT network in the US.In 2004 Louise starred with Viggo Mortensen and Omar Sharif in Disney's summer hit Hidalgo which has now taken over $100m worldwide.Louise was born near Redbridge in Essex, England. She was the fifth child to Sean and Maura who subsequently had two further children. Louise was educated at a local Catholic school and left at 16 with 9 O levels. She studied English Literature at Cambridge and has also studied photography and printing at St Martin's in London. She divides her time between London and Los Angeles.COPIED FROM HER OFFICIAL WEBSITE!
COMING FEB 2008 ON BBC1
Kiss of Death