Leah Hackett
{{Short description|English actress (b. 1985)}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1985|8|15|df=y}}
| birth_place = Bolton, Greater Manchester, England
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| occupation = Actress
| alma_mater = Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
| children = 1
| years_active = 2006–present
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Leah Hackett (born 15 August 1985) is an English actress, best known for her role as Tina Reilly in Hollyoaks.
Early life
Hackett was born in Bolton, Greater Manchester into a mixed race family, an English mother and an African-American father. She worked in Tyldesley Library as a teenager. She attended Tyldesley Primary School before moving to Fred Longworth High School. She later attended Winstanley College and went on to get a place at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.{{cite news|title=Interview with Leah Hackett|url=http://www.wlct.org.uk/Culture/linconline/leahhackett.htm|publisher=Wigan Leisure & Culture Trust|accessdate=5 April 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110405193218/http://www.wlct.org.uk/Culture/linconline/leahhackett.htm|archive-date=5 April 2011}}
She appeared in Reemer's video for the single Maniac.{{cite news|title=Leah Hackett stars in music video|url=http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/H/hollyoaks/news/previous/08/04/080430_gallery.html|publisher=Channel 4|date=30 April 2008|accessdate=5 April 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081002013027/http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/H/hollyoaks/news/previous/08/04/080430_gallery.html|archive-date=2 October 2008}}
Personal life
In January 2020, she announced she was pregnant with her first child. On 3 April 2020, she gave birth to her daughter, called Skylar.
Hackett co-owns clothing rental boutique The Closet{{cite web |url=http://www.theclosetliverpool.com/index.aspx |title=The Closet : Celebrity Dress Hire |publisher=Theclosetliverpool.com |date= |accessdate=22 August 2022 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100506080256/http://www.theclosetliverpool.com/Index.aspx |archivedate=6 May 2010 }} in Liverpool with Hollyoaks co-stars Jennifer Metcalfe and Claire Cooper.{{cite web|author=Dawn Collinson |url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-life/2010/03/03/hollyoaks-actresses-opening-a-new-boutique-called-the-closet-100252-25949223/ |title=Lifestyles - Hollyoaks actresses opening a new boutique called the closet |publisher=Liverpool Echo |date=3 March 2010 |accessdate=22 August 2022}}
Career
Hackett played timid Tina Reilly in Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks. She played the role for over two years between 3 August 2006, until her character's death on 17 October 2008. She reprised the role for one episode on 20 November 2014. Hackett appeared in the Liverpool Nativity on 16 December 2007 as a shepherdess. In July 2008, Hackett was the face selected to launch the Polaroid PoGo.[https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/hollyoaks-actress-leah-hackett-launches-the-polaroid-pogo-news-photo/834647164 Getty Images] She also appeared in a series of videos promoting the Year of Food and Farming where she milks a cow, shears sheep, collects eggs and makes ice cream at Blaze Farm in Cheshire.{{cite news|title=Hollyoaks star takes to the farm|url=http://www.thinkfoodandfarming.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20&Itemid=34|publisher=Think Food and Farming|date=4 July 2008|accessdate=19 January 2016}} She appeared in a pantomime (Dick Whittington), at Buxton Opera House and she played Alice Witzwarren. She appeared as Clare Saunders in an episode of Doctors, titled "The Mathematics of Marriage", which aired 15 December 2010.{{cite news|url=https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/tv/doctors-spoilers-from-december-13-250444|accessdate=11 January 2024|date=12 December 2010|work=Birmingham Mail|first=Roz|last=Laws|title=Doctors spoilers from December 13}}
Stage appearances
- November 2010, Pub (musical drama), Royal Exchange, Manchester
- June to July 2013, Manchester - The Massacre (a promenade performance drama splicing the Peterloo Massacre of 1819 and the Hacienda Movement of 1989), Library Theatre company
Filmography
=Television=
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| Year(s)
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 2006–2008, 2014
| Tina Reilly (née McQueen) |
| 2010
| Doctors | Clare Saunders | |
| 2011
| The Case | Tamsin Hatfield | |
| rowspan="2"| 2012
| Doctors | Michaela Everett | |
| Good Cop
| Laura | |
| 2013–2020
| WPC Rowe | Series 2–9 |
| 2014
| PC Stanley | ITV, 1 episode |
| 2017
| Lisa | BBC, 1 episode |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=2625071|name=Leah Hackett}}
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Category:English television actresses
Category:Actresses from Bolton
Category:Black British actresses
Category:English soap opera actresses
Category:Alumni of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts