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Kara Tointon Profile |
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Birth Date: August 5, 1983
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Birth Place: Essex, England, UK
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Birth Name: Kara Tointon
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Height: 5'5"
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Biography |
Kara Tointon (born August 5, 1983 in Basildon, Essex) is a
British actress, best known for playing Dawn Swann in the
popular BBC soap opera EastEnders.
Tointon is 5ft 5in tall. She was born in Basildon in Essex
but shortly afterwards moved to Southend. Her younger sister
Hannah is also an actress.
Tointon began her acting career at age seven. She had speech
and drama lessons at school. She also took part in LAMDA
examinations, entering local musical festivals performing
poetry recitals. Her first proper acting experience came
when she played the part of Brigitta in The Sound of Music
at the Cliffs Pavillion, where she met ex-Busted member
James Bourne, who played Kurt. The couple dated on-and-off
for seven years. Tointon was said to have dumped Bourne when
Busted split up, apparently because Bourne was no longer in
a band but both parties have denied this, stating they had
split up five months previously due to scheduling conflicts.
Shortly after that, her first paid job was as one of the
children in the pantomime Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Her first appearance on television was as an extra in
EastEnders in 1994 when she played a school friend of Sonia
Fowler.
In 2004, Tointon appeared in Mile High and in December
returned to her former Dream Team role as Gina Moliano until
May 2005. It is on the set of Dream Team that she met her
former boyfriend Terry Kiely, who played Karl Fletcher in
the show. The couple announced their split in the summer of
2006. Tointon is now dating her former EastEnders co-star,
James Alexandrou.
Almost a month to the day that her last Dream Team episode
aired, it was revealed to the press that she would be
joining the BBC soap EastEnders as a new character, Dawn
Swann.
In April 2006 she featured as number 27 in the list of 100
sexiest women in the world, voted for the by the readers of
FHM magazine and featured as number 86 on the 2007 list. In
September 2006 she was voted sexiest female at the Inside
Soap Awards. In May 2007, she was nominated for Sexiest
Female at the British Soap Awards. |
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Sister of Hannah Tointon.
Lives in the flat below her mum and sister.
Kara lives in the flat below her family and often goes up
for her tea. |
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