Lisa Faulkner
{{Short description|English actress and TV presenter (born 1972)}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}
{{Infobox person
|name = Lisa Faulkner
|image = File:Lisa Faulkner 2012.png
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|caption = Faulkner in 2012
|birth_name = Lisa Tamsin Faulkner
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1972|2|19|df=y}}
|birth_place = Merton, London, England
|death_date =
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|occupation = {{hlist|Actress|chef|presenter}}
|yearsactive = 1992–present
|spouses = {{Unbulleted list|
| {{marriage|Chris Coghill|2005|2011|reason=divorced}}
| {{marriage|John Torode|2019}}
}}
|children = 1
|website = {{URL|http://www.lisafaulkner.co.uk/}}
}}
Lisa Tamsin Faulkner (born 19 February 1972)Cineplex: Filmzitate – Kalender 2012, Aachen, Germany, Sept. 2011, p. 125. is an English actress, presenter and television chef. She has had roles in The Lover (1992), Dangerfield (1995), Brookside (1997–1998), Holby City (1999–2001), Spooks (2002), Burn It (2003), Murder in Suburbia (2004–2005), New Street Law (2006–2007), Murdoch Mysteries (2010–2012), EastEnders (2017) and The Girl Before (2021).
Faulkner has also carved out a career as a television chef, having won Celebrity MasterChef as a contestant in 2010.
Early life
Faulkner was born in Merton, London, to David Faulkner and Julie (née Day). She lived in Esher and was educated at Tiffin Girls' School in Kingston upon Thames.[http://www.holby.tv/lisa-faulkner/ "Lisa Faulkner Plays Victoria Merrick"], Holby.tv When she was sixteen, her mother, Julie, died from throat cancer. Faulkner has since discussed her bereavement in a number of newspaper and magazine interviews.{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/M/mummy_diaries/celebs_1.html|website=Channel4.com|access-date=14 November 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091023043742/http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/M/mummy_diaries/celebs_1.html|archive-date=23 October 2009|title=Channel 4: Mummy Diaries- Celebs|url-status=dead}}
Career
At the age of 16, Faulkner was approached by a modelling scout while she was waiting on the platform of a London tube station.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/faces/lisa_faulkner.shtml|title=Drama Faces - Lisa Faulkner|website=BBC Drama|access-date=12 December 2008|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120721000517/www.bbc.co.uk/drama/faces/lisa_faulkner.shtml|archive-date=21 July 2012|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}
In 1992, she made her first acting appearance in The Lover. At age 23, Faulkner played the part of Alison Dangerfield in the TV drama Dangerfield. She also starred in the 1995 film A Feast at Midnight. In 1996, she appeared in And The Beat Goes On. Two years later, she played Louise Hope in the Channel 4 soap Brookside. Between 1999 and 2001, she played Victoria Merrick in Holby City.{{cite news|url=https://www.f4group.co.uk/artistes/lisa-faulkner|title=Actress Lisa Faulkner takes MasterChef title|website=f4group.co.uk |access-date=January 26, 2023}}
In the TV show Spooks, her character Helen Flynn was killed off in only the second episode of the first series, having her hand and face burnt in a deep fat fryer before being shot in the head at point-blank range.[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/profiles/3550557/Spooks-The-show-that-is-James-Bond-on-a-BBC-budget.html "Spooks: The show that is James Bond on a BBC budget"], The Telegraph, 4 December 2008 In 2004, she starred on ITV as D.S. Emma Scribbins ("Scribbs") in Murder in Suburbia, in which she played a CID policewoman in company with Caroline Catz, who played her boss, D.I. Ashurst. The show returned for a second series in 2005, with Scribbs adopting the then popular fashion style of "boho-chic". In 2006, she starred in the TV series New Street Law. From June 2008, Faulkner narrated the BBC One show Heir Hunters, replacing Nadia Sawalha, until 2017.[http://www.flametv.co.uk/productions.aspx?year=2008 productions/2008] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727083025/http://www.flametv.co.uk/productions.aspx?year=2008 |date=27 July 2011 }} Flame TV productions
She regularly taught at Amanda Redman's Artists Theatre School.{{cite web|url=http://angela.sky.com/friends/lisa-faulkner/|title=Lisa Faulkner – Angela & Friends|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091108061842/http://angela.sky.com/friends/lisa-faulkner|archive-date=8 November 2009|df=dmy-all}} Faulkner was voted one of FHM{{'}}s "100 Sexiest Women in the World" six times between 1999 and 2004.{{cite web |url= http://www.listal.com/list/alltime-100-sexiest-hall-fame |title= FHM All-time Sexiest Women hall of fame |work= Listal |access-date=25 September 2017}} She regularly contributed to Big Brother's Little Brother, a magazine programme about the reality UK TV show Big Brother on Channel 4. She was also a regular contributor to the Sky1 magazine show Angela and Friends.{{cite web|url=http://angela.sky.com/friends/lisa-faulkner|title=Biography at Angela and Friends website|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091108061842/http://angela.sky.com/friends/lisa-faulkner|archive-date=8 November 2009|df=dmy-all}}
In 2010, she won Celebrity Masterchef, beating Christine Hamilton and Dick Strawbridge in the final.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11035571|title=Actress Lisa Faulkner takes MasterChef title|website=BBC News|date=20 August 2010|access-date=21 August 2010}} She appeared in the third series premiere of the Canadian series Murdoch Mysteries when the series filmed an episode in and around Bristol, England, that was broadcast in 2010, and she returned for her second guest appearance in the fourth series in 2011. She also appeared twice in the fifth series.{{cite web|url=http://tvguide.ca/TVNews/articles/100728_murdoch_mysteries_spoilers_GD.htm|title='Murdoch' mysteries revealed|work=TV Guide |access-date=28 July 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706205827/http://tvguide.ca/TVNews/articles/100728_murdoch_mysteries_spoilers_GD.htm|archive-date=6 July 2011|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}} She co-hosted Real Food Family Cook Off on Channel 5 with Matt Dawson. The series was broadcast in 2011. In 2013, she co-hosted the daytime Channel 4 series What's Cooking? with Ben Shephard and, in 2015, was reunited with Shephard to co-host an episode of This Morning Summer. In March 2017, it was announced that she would be joining EastEnders as Fi Browning, a "stylish and sophisticated" businesswoman.{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/eastenders/news/a822543/lisa-faulkner-joins-eastenders-celebrity-masterchef-champ-and-spooks-star/|title=Celebrity MasterChef champ Lisa Faulkner joins the cast of EastEnders|last=Harp|first=Justin|date=2 March 2017|work=Digital Spy|publisher=Hearst Magazines UK|access-date=2 March 2017}} Fi was later revealed to be Sophie Wilmott-Brown, the daughter of Kathy Beale's rapist James Willmott-Brown. In March 2019, Faulkner and John Torode were given a weekend cooking show. They host John And Lisa's Weekend Kitchen on Sunday mornings on ITV.{{cite web |title=John Torode and Lisa Faulkner land weekend cooking show |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/entertainment-arts-47573094 |publisher=BBC |access-date=28 July 2019 |date=14 March 2019}} In July 2019, Faulkner appeared on Celebrity Gogglebox alongside friend Nicola Stephenson. {{Cite web|date=2019-07-05|title=Who are Lisa and Nicola from Celebrity Gogglebox? Meet the TV duo!|url=https://www.realitytitbit.com/channel-4/who-are-lisa-and-nicola-from-celebrity-gogglebox-meet-the-tv-duo|access-date=2020-07-13|website=Reality Titbit|language=en-US}}
Personal life
In 2005, Faulkner married Chris Coghill, one of her co-stars in the 2003 TV drama series Burn It, in Richmond Park, London.{{cite news|url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/film-and-tv/wedding-bash-with-bangers-and-mash-1070506|title=Wedding bash with Bangers and Mash|date=16 February 2007|access-date=12 March 2020|work=Manchester Evening News}} The couple adopted a fifteen-month-old girl who was born in 2006.Loose Women, 2 March 2012 The couple separated and divorced in 2011.{{Cite web|url=https://rb.gy/6cnktf|title=Lisa Faulkner and Chris Coghill separated in 2011, she is now married to John Torode|website=Global News 101}} In 2019 she married Australian chef John Torode,{{cite news |title=John Torode roasted by BBC for saying he and fellow MasterChef host Gregg Wallace aren't friends |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/07/john-torode-roasted-bbc-sayinghe-masterchef-host-gregg-wallace/ |work=The Telegraph |date=7 May 2017|access-date=2 January 2019}} They worked together on presenting John and Lisa's Weekend Kitchen.
Filmography
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! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |
| 1992
| Helene Lagonelle | rowspan=3|Film |
| rowspan=2|1994
| Miss Charlotte |
| Le péril jeune
| Barbara |
| rowspan=2|1995
| Alison Dangerfield | Series 1–2; 18 episodes |
| Casualty
| Cassie Tolchard | Episode: "Not Waving But Drowning" |
| 1996
| And the Beat Goes On | Christine Spencer | 1 series; 8 episodes |
| 1997–1998
| Regular role |
| 1999–2001
| Series 1–3; regular role, 45 episodes |
| 2002
| Spooks | 2 episodes |
| 2003
| Burn It | Emma | 2 series; 13 episodes |
| 2004–2005
| Det. Sgt. Emma "Scribbs" Scribbins | 2 series; 12 episodes |
| 2005
| Hannah Taylor | 1 episode |
| 2006–2007
| Laura Scammell | 2 series; 14 episodes |
| 2008–2016
| Narrator | Regular voiceover |
| 2010
| Contestant | Won the series |
| 2010–2012
| Anna Fulford | Canadian television series; 4 episodes |
| rowspan=2|2011
| Alex Owen | 1 episode |
| Real Food Family Cook Off
| rowspan=2|Co-presenter | 1 series; with Matt Dawson |
| 2013
| 1 series; with Ben Shephard |
| 2015
| Guest presenter | 1 episode; with Ben Shephard |
| 2017
| Regular role, 61 episodes |
| 2019–present
| John and Lisa's Weekend Kitchen | Co-presenter | With John Torode |
| 2019
| Girlfriend | 2 episodes |
| 2019
| Herself | With Nicola Stephenson |
| rowspan=2|2021
| |
| The Girl Before
| Tessa{{cite web|url=https://www.heart.co.uk/showbiz/tv-movies/the-girl-before-cast-who-seen-before/|title= The Girl Before cast: Who is in the new drama and where have you seen them before?|date=20 December 2021|accessdate=20 December 2021|website=Heart}} | |
| 2022
| Hannah King | |
| rowspan=2|2024
| Violet Oliver{{IMDb title|30873806|Fashion}} | Episode: "Fashion" |
| John & Lisa's Food Trip Down Under
| Herself | With John Torode |
| 2025
| Dana Fells | |
Awards and nominations
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! Year ! Award ! Category ! Result ! {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}} |
| 2017
| Best Bad Girl | {{nom}} | align="center" | {{cite news|last1=Harp|first1=Justin|title=Coronation Street, EastEnders, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks all make the Inside Soap Awards longlist|url=http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/emmerdale/news/a836154/inside-soap-awards-longlist-coronation-street-eastenders-emmerdale-hollyoaks/|access-date=21 August 2017|work=Digital Spy|date=22 August 2017}} |
Books
- Recipes from my Mother for my Daughter (Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2013) {{ISBN|9780857206176}}
- The Way I Cook... (Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2013) {{ISBN|9780857206183}}
- Tea and Cake with Lisa Faulkner (Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2015) {{ISBN|9781471125607}}
- From Mother to Mother: Recipes from a family kitchen (Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2018) {{ISBN|9781471125621}}
- Meant to Be (Ebury Publishing, 2019) {{ISBN|9781529104141}}
References
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External links
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- {{Official website|http://www.lisafaulkner.co.uk}}
- {{imdb name|0269096}}
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Category:20th-century English actresses
Category:21st-century English actresses
Category:English film actresses
Category:English television actresses
Category:English television presenters
Category:English voice actresses
Category:British soap opera actresses
Category:English television chefs
Category:People educated at the Tiffin Girls' School
Category:Actors from the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames
Category:Actresses from London
Category:Actors from the London Borough of Merton
Category:Reality cooking competition winners