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Hannah Spearritt Profile |
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Birth Date: April 1, 1981
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Birth Place: Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK
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Birth Name: Hannah Louise Spearritt
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Height: 5'4"
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Biography |
Hannah Spearritt is a English actress and singer. She
was previously a member of the successful pop group S Club
7.
She was born in Gorleston in Norfolk, the youngest of three
children. At the age of 3 she modelled in a Mothercare
catalogue. When she was 12 she landed a part in the Great
Yarmouth Amateur Dramatic and Operatic Society's production
of Annie. Thereafter she successfully auditioned for the
National Youth Music Theatre, and became part of the
company. While with the NYMT she met future S Club member
and boyfriend Paul Cattermole, as well her friend and future
actress, Sheridan Smith. She appeared in the NYMT's
productions, of Pendragon (1994-1995) — performing in New
York and Hong Kong, Tin Pan Ali (1996), and the West End
musical Bugsy Malone (1997) — she was a member of the
original cast.
In 1998 she got a part in the television film The Cater
Street Hangman, playing the part of a maid who gets
murdered. She had also made appearances on the National
Lottery Show and Blue Peter. While Hannah was studying
mathematics, performing arts and media studies at college in
Great Yarmouth, she auditioned for S Club 7 after seeing an
advert in a magazine - it was a life changing decision.
As a member of S Club 7 (1998-2003) Spearritt became known
to and loved by a large number of people. Spearritt quickly
became one of the groups most popular members — her impish
and hyper personality, as well as her trademark smile
appealed to a wide audience.
The group had four UK number one hit singles, one UK number
one album and one US top ten hit. She co-starred in the
groups own TV series - Miami 7 (1999), LA 7 (2000),
Hollywood 7 (2001) and Viva S Club (2002). She took part in
three UK tours, won two prestigious Brit Awards and numerous
other awards. Along with Rachel Stevens, Hannah was a
regular pin-up in dozens of magazines and was a regular in
the FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women polls between 2000 and 2004.
Perhaps more importantly Hannah gained the chance to act in
a movie, when S Club released their movie Seeing Double in
early 2003. Most famously, in October 2001, amid a blaze of
publicity, she revealed that she had been in a secret
relationship with fellow band member Paul Cattermole for the
previous six months. Paul Cattermole was the first to quit
the group in 2002, and thereafter S Club 7 became simply S
Club and ultimately split in May 2003.
In the last week of S Club's existence, Spearritt was
officially at home in bed with the flu. However, she was in
Los Angeles to audition for a role in the film Agent Cody
Banks 2: Destination London, a fact that Hannah revealed at
the UK premiere of the film on 2004-03-24 in London. She got
the role and three days after leaving the band she began
filming — technically a breach of her contract with 19
Management.
In March 2004 she successfully auditioned for a minor role
in the horror Seed of Chucky, a move which was seen by some
as an attempt to distance herself from her squeaky clean S
Club image. However, in reality her role was only a bit part
and she received little publicity for it.
After Seed of Chucky, Spearritt vanished from public view.
She briefly popped up at a charity auction in her hometown
of Gorleston in early 2005 and made a brief appearance on
ITV's Hells Kitchen along with ex-S Club 7 member Jon Lee
and boyfriend Paul Cattermole.
In early November 2005 she made her acting comeback in the
BBC's Blessed, an eight part sitcom. In Blessed she played a
minor role, appearing as a member of a fake girl band, in
two episodes. She most recently appeared in the unsuccessful
West End musical, Snow! The Musical, at London's Sound
Theatre. The musical was cancelled just three weeks into its
run because of poor ticket sales (one show managed to
attract an audience of only two people).
In February 2006 it was revealed that Hannah had landed a
lead role in a brand new ITV series called Primaeval. Hannah
will play the role of Abby Maitland, the assistant to the
time travelling Professor Nick Cutter (played by Douglas
Henshall). Filming began in March 2006 and the series is
expected to be screened in early 2007. |
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Other
Information |
Member of music group Sclub7.
Her starsign is Aries.
[October 2001] Admitted she has been dating fellow band
member Paul Cattermole for a year.
Life-long friend of Mia-Lucy Rose, who tragically drowned
whilst travelling in Laos, Asia (March 2004). |
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