Donnaleigh Bailey (born 17 January 1983,
Balsall HeathBalsall Heath is a working class, inner-city area of Birmingham, England. It is home to a diverse cultural mix including Arabs, Afro-Caribbean, Turks, Indian, Pakistani, Kashmiri, Irish and English, and the home of the Balti Triangle, a collection of Asian Balti restaurants and sweet...
,
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) is an
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actress, best known for playing Senior Practice Nurse Michelle Corrigan in the
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One daytime soap,
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. Her first episode,
Junk Soul Brothers aired on the 8 June 2006. In 2007, she was nominated for Best Actress and Sexiest Female in the
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for her role.
Donnaleigh Bailey (born 17 January 1983,
Balsall HeathBalsall Heath is a working class, inner-city area of Birmingham, England. It is home to a diverse cultural mix including Arabs, Afro-Caribbean, Turks, Indian, Pakistani, Kashmiri, Irish and English, and the home of the Balti Triangle, a collection of Asian Balti restaurants and sweet...
,
BirminghamBirmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands county of England. Birmingham is the second-most populous British city, with a population of 1,006,500 ....
) is an
EnglishEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
actress, best known for playing Senior Practice Nurse Michelle Corrigan in the
BBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation, usually referred to by its abbreviation as the "BBC", is the longest established and largest broadcaster in the world...
One daytime soap,
DoctorsDoctors is a British daytime television soap opera, set in the fictional city of Letherbridge, which started in 2000. It is produced by BBC Birmingham and screened on BBC One. It tells the story of the staff at the fictional Mill Health Centre and Letherbridge Universities Campus Surgery...
. Her first episode,
Junk Soul Brothers aired on the 8 June 2006. In 2007, she was nominated for Best Actress and Sexiest Female in the
British Soap AwardsThe British Soap Awards is an annual awards ceremony to honour the best of British soap operas.The first event began in 1999 and takes place in May each year. Although it is an ITV production, the events are held at the BBC Television Centre, in London. The soap operas nominated for awards are...
for her role. She was again nominated for Sexiest Female in 2009. Donnaleigh is of Jamaican descent on her
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father's side and of
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descent on her mother's side.
During 2001 she had a recurring role as Jenny in the
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revived series
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.
BBC Daytime Soap Doctors
Donnaleigh currently plays Senior Practice
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Michelle CorriganMichelle Corrigan is a fictional character in the soap opera Doctors. She is played by Donnaleigh Bailey and made her first appearance on 8 June 2006.-Character:...
in the
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's daytime,
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based, soap Doctors. Donnaleigh first appeared in Doctors on the 8 June 2006.
Career
Donnaliegh made her first appearance in June 2006 as
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Michelle CorriganMichelle Corrigan is a fictional character in the soap opera Doctors. She is played by Donnaleigh Bailey and made her first appearance on 8 June 2006.-Character:...
in the
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's daytime soap Doctors.
The following year she began her studies at the prestigious
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(LIPA).
In 2004 Donnaleigh had a guest spot on the BBC One continuing medical drama
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. She played Debbie Allen, a pregnant teen who loses her unborn child, in the episode
One is the Loneliest Number].
Bailey played the part of Colleen O'Malley in Ruffian Productions'
Martha Loves Michael during the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe at the Pleasance.
Trivia
Although she was born and raised in
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she is an avid
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fan.