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Full Julia Sawalha Biography
Julia Sawalha (born 9th September 1968) is a British actress best known for her roles of Lynda Day (editor of The Junior Gazette in Press Gang), Saffron Monsoon in Absolutely Fabulous and Lydia Bennet in the 1995 miniseries of Pride and Prejudice.
Sawalha was born in London to Roberta and Nadim Sawalha. She was named after her grandmother, a Jordanian businesswoman who had received an award from Queen Noor for enterprise. Julia is of Jordanian, British, and French Huguenot ancestry.
Julia first gained public attention for her starring role in the ITV teenage comedy/drama Press Gang, which ran from 1989 to 1993. The on-screen chemistry between the two leads was reflected off-screen, as she and co-star Dexter Fletcher became an item for several years.
From 1991-94, Julia starred in the ITV family comedy Second Thoughts and continued with her character, Hannah, (Lynda Bellingham's daughter) in the British Comedy Award winning Faith in the Future (1995-98)
Between 1992 and 2004, she played Saffron Monsoon in the television comedy series Absolutely Fabulous alongside Jennifer Saunders.
In 2000 Julia Sawalha appeared as Janet, the Australian Barmaid ("Built for bar work; it's instinct... instinct!!") in the first series of the British sitcom Time Gentlemen Please. She also played the much put-upon PA to "Zak" in Argos TV adverts during 2002-2004, along with Richard E. Grant. She has also joined acclaimed actor Ioan Gruffudd in the internationally successful TV/DVD adaptations of CS Forester's Horatio Hornblower novels, as the captain's first wife Maria.
In 2006, Julia Sawalha participated in the third series of the genealogy documentary series Who Do You Think You Are? tracing her family's roots, which are Jordanian Bedouin on her father's side, and French Huguenot on her mother's. She also appeared in the pilot of BBC 1's "A Taste of my Life" presented by Nigel Slater.
After a two year break, she was back on screen during May 2007, competing in the BBC dog training celebrity reality show The Underdog Show. In April 2007 she was announced as part of the cast for the BBC One show The Cranford Chronicles.
She went out with and lived with "Press Gang" co-star Dexter Fletcher, and later went out with comedian Richard Herring: "So taken was he that the Oxford-educated stand-up comedian even set up a shrine to her on Fist of Fun, the television programme he wrote and acted in with Stewart Lee. "My ideal woman has the head of Julia Sawalha attached to the body of Julia Sawalha," went the running gag." Sawalha then dated Patrick Marber. She has also been intimate with Keith Allen, the actor and father of Lily Allen.
On 1st January 2004 it was alleged in the tabloid newspapers that she had married boyfriend Alan Davies, her co-star in the television series Jonathan Creek. Both she and Davies, who avoided discussing their private lives in public, denied this, and took legal action against the reports. The couple broke up after Davies reportedly refused to commit - and was branded "a miserable git" by her sister Nadia
Sawalha currently lives in rural Somerset, grows her own vegetables, attends yoga lessons and is studying for an Open University English degree. |
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