Michele Austin is a British actress best known for her role as PC Yvonne Hemmingway on ITV

ITV

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's The Bill

The Bill

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, for which she won the Screen Nation

Screen Nation

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 award for best television actress in 2005.

She studied acting at Rose Bruford College

Rose Bruford College

Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance is a British drama school, offering university-level and professional vocational training for theatre and performance and the BA and MA degrees, based in Sidcup, Southeast London.-History:Founded in 1950, Rose Bruford "pioneered the first acting degree...

 in Sidcup

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. A well as her role as PC Hemmingway in the ITV series The Bill, she played the character Marsha Harris twice in 2001. Austin had roles in Mike Leigh's films Secrets & Lies (1996) and Another Year (2010). She also has a small role in ITV's 2008 teen drama Britannia High

Britannia High

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as Mrs Doris Troy, the landlady of the main characters, in the comedy Never Better

Never Better

Never Better is a British television sitcom which started on BBC Two on 10 January 2008. It stars Stephen Mangan as recovering alcoholic Keith Merchant and Kate Ashfield as his suffering wife Anita...

and as a nurse in BBC's Outnumbered

Outnumbered

Outnumbered is a British sitcom. Airing on BBC One since 2007, it stars Hugh Dennis and Claire Skinner as a father and mother outnumbered by their three children...

that aired on 30 August 2009.

In December 2010, she appeared in the British BBC

BBC

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 soap opera

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 EastEnders

EastEnders

EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...

as Gloria MacDonald.

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