Jake Roche
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Jake Roche is an English
England
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 actor
Actor
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 and singer
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

, He played Isaac Nuttall in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale
Emmerdale
Emmerdale, is a long-running British soap opera set in Emmerdale , a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, Emmerdale was first broadcast on 16 October 1972...

and 'Matt' in the 2010 BBC Musical Film Rules of Love
Rules of Love
Rules of Love is a 2010 British film starring Jake Roche, Daisy Head, Sydney Rae White, Paterson Joseph, Daniel Anthony, Madeline Duggan, Ryan Hawley and Laura Aikman....

.

Early and personal life

Born in 1992, Roche is the son of Shane Richie
Shane Richie
Shane Richie is an English actor, comedian, singer and media personality, known for his portrayal of the character Alfie Moon in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders.-Early life and career beginnings:...

 and Coleen Nolan
Coleen Nolan
Coleen Patricia Nolan is an English born television presenter, author and singer of Irish descent. She was the youngest member of the girl group, The Nolans, in which she sang alongside her sisters...

. Aged nine, his parents divorce
Divorce
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d, of the divorce Roche has said "I remember seeing on the front pages about my dad cheating, but as horrible as that was, we didn’t fully ­understand because we were so young – so it’s not had this massive, damaging impact on us or anything." He has admitted that he has been embarrassed by some of his mothers comments on television saying, "the worst was when my brother rang her by accident when he was having sex and she went and said it on Loose Women. Oh my God! If it had been me, I don’t think she’d have said it – I wouldn’t have taken it so well!"

He is good friends with Jessie Wallace
Jessie Wallace
Jessie Wallace is an English actress best known for her portrayal as Kat Moon in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.-Early life:...

 and has admitted that he thinks of her as a second mum.

He has one older brother,Shane Roche Jnr (born 1988) from his parents marriage, a half-brother Mackenzie Blue Roche (born in 2006), and a half-sister Lolita Bell Roche (born in 2008) from his dads second marriage. He also has a half sister Ciara (born June 2001) from his mothers and stepfather Ray Fensome's marriage. .

Career

Roche trained at The Sylvia Young Theatre School
Sylvia Young Theatre School
Sylvia Young Theatre School is an independent fee-paying stage school, in Westminster, London, named after its founder and Principal, Sylvia Young.-Outline:...

 for two years and appeared in the film Finding Neverland
Finding Neverland
Finding Neverland is a 2004 semi-biographical film about playwright J. M. Barrie and his relationship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan, directed by Marc Forster. The screenplay by David Magee is based on the play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee...

.

In 2010 he auditioned for the part of Isaac Nuttall in Emmerdale. Of the auditions he has said that he did not tell anyone who his parents were, Roche has said "I’d never go off mum and dad’s back because I wanted to know I could hold my own in a job like this." He was subsequently cast in the part and appeared on screens from August to October 2010.

He also appeared as Matt in the BBC
BBC
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 Musical Film Rules of Love
Rules of Love
Rules of Love is a 2010 British film starring Jake Roche, Daisy Head, Sydney Rae White, Paterson Joseph, Daniel Anthony, Madeline Duggan, Ryan Hawley and Laura Aikman....

in 2010.

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