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Digital Spy - Found Oct. 8, 2008 Michelle Ryan relished playing wicked sorceress Nimueh in Merlin as she had never portrayed a 'baddie' before. Speaking to the Daily Mail, Ryan said... |
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Mail Online UK - Found Oct. 3, 2008 ... the tale of Michelle Ryan should be a salutary one. A household name in the UK, thanks to her role as Zoe Slater in EastEnders, Ryan was... |
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Digital Spy - Found Sep. 29, 2008 Former EastEnders actress Michelle Ryan has revealed that she quit her Walford role because of boredom. |
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What's On TV - Found Oct. 2, 2008 Former EastEnder Michelle Ryan says she thoroughly enjoyed playing a bitch in the hit BBC One series Merlin. |
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The Sun - Found Sep. 16, 2008 ... jobs and travel and I couldnt do that if I stayed over there." Watch interview with Michelle Ryan here... Michelle starred as Jaime Sommers in... |
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What's On TV - Found Sep. 12, 2008 Former EastEnders star Michelle Ryan is far from disappointed her US show The Bionic Woman hasn't been recommissioned, saying 'that's showbusiness' |
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Variety - Found Jul. 27, 2008 John Hurt and Michelle Ryan have joined the cast of the BBC1 fantasy drama 'Merlin,' which will air on NBC. Hurt will voice the Great Dragon, while |
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Guardian Unlimited - Found Jul. 22, 2008 BBC Bionic Woman star Michelle Ryan will join veteran actor John Hurt in the cast of BBC1's forthcoming fantasy drama Merlin. Ryan, a former... |
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The Sun - Found Jul. 22, 2008 Merlin ... Colin Morgan EX-EastEnder Michelle Ryan and Heroes star Santiago Cabrera have signed for BBC1?s drama Merlin. |
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First Coast News - Found Jul. 26, 2008 Actress Michelle Ryan was interviewed during First Coast News at Noon on September 26, 2007. Discussions: The show is being called a 'darker... |
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Michelle Ryan
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| Born | Michelle Claire Ryan[1] 22 April 1984 Enfield, Greater London, Middlesex, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
Michelle Claire Ryan (born 22 April 1984) is an English actress of Irish ancestry.
She was previously best known for portraying the role of Zoe Slater on the BBC soap opera EastEnders. She has also starred in the 2007 television series remake Bionic Woman, and more recently as wicked sorceress Nimueh in the 2008 BBC TV series Merlin.
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Michelle Ryan was born in Enfield, Greater London, Middlesex. A member of a local theatre group since she was 10, she was picked for her role in EastEnders when she was 15 and first appeared on the show in September 2000; for the part, she affected an East End cockney accent, rather than speaking her usual Received Pronunciation.[2] In 2005, she announced she was leaving EastEnders to concentrate on work in theatre and films.citation needed She has mused that her involvement with the show served as a dress rehearsal for working on Bionic Woman.[3]
Ryan got her first big break playing Sheylla Grands in the Series TV Show "Chosen Ones" in the 1st season and Zoe Slater in the BBC soap EastEnders.
During summer 2005, Ryan appeared in a run of Who's the Daddy? at the King's Head Theatre. The play by Toby Young and Lloyd Evans is based on the David Blunkett paternity case.
Ryan auditioned to replace Billie Piper as the Doctor's companion in Doctor Who; however, Freema Agyeman was ultimately chosen for the role.[4] She had a small role in an episode of Marple which screened in February 2006, and also appeared in a small independent film the same year, Cashback.
In early 2007, Ryan was seen as Maria in a new adaptation of Mansfield Park opposite Billie Piper for ITV and also as Lila in the film I Want Candy, co-starring Carmen Electra and Mackenzie Crook. In February 2007, it was announced that she had been cast as the lead in the new drama Bionic Woman.[5] The series began airing in the United States on the broadcast network NBC in September 2007. Ryan affects an American accent for the role of Jaime Sommers, except in the episode "The Education of Jaime Sommers" in which her character goes under cover as an English transfer student at a university; for this episode, she uses an Oxfordshire accent instead of her natural London accent. She has had professional dance training and attributes to it helping her with the physically demanding stunts required for the show.[3]
On Red Nose Day 2007, Ryan appeared in a brand new Mr. Bean sketch written and recorded for Comic Relief. She will shortly be seen in Flick, a new Welsh independent film co-starring Faye Dunaway and Leslie Phillips.
In May 2007, Ryan revealed she auditioned for the role of Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale, eventually given to Eva Green the previous year.[6]
Prior to Bionic Woman, she appeared in Jekyll for the BBC, a modern day version of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde starring James Nesbitt. It began its six-episode run on 16 June 2007 and was released on DVD in the United States on 18 September 2007, one week prior to her debut in Bionic Woman.
She will appear as the sorceress Nimueh in the forthcoming BBC drama series Merlin.[7]
Ryan is signed to Independent Models in London, and is also a patron of children's cancer charity CLIC Sargent.
Ryan has been among FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in 2002, 2004, 2005 (fourth, her highest ranking), and 2007.

Title: Michelle Ryan on Bionic Woman
Description: Former EastEnders star Michelle Ryan has admitted she is overwhelmed by the popularity of her new drama The Bionic Woman in the UK.

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Description: Here is the new pilot of The Bionic Woman 07 version with the "old school" sound effects added...I hope this show makes it on NBC or SCi Fi Channel...
Title: Michelle Ryan on Jekyll
Description: Short clip of Michelle Ryan on Jekyll before Bionic Woman.

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Description: Heres Michelle upstaging everyone in Eastenders.

Title: WOTV: Watch Michelle Ryan chat about Merlin
Description: Michelle Ryan talks to whatsontv.co.uk about playing Nimueh an evil sorceress
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