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Sammy Winward Profile |
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Birth Date: October 12, 1985
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Birth Place: Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
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Birth Name: Samantha Lee-Winward
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Height: 5'5"
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Biography |
Sammy Winward is an English actress, singer
and model who attended Bolton's Turton Media and Arts
College in Bromley Cross. She is best known for playing
Katie Sugden in the ITV1 soap opera Emmerdale.
Winward previously dated her Emmerdale co-star, Kelvin
Fletcher, and later got engaged to footballer David Dunn.
Their daughter Mia was born at home in Edgeworth, Bolton on
June 12, 2005. Sammy and David later split in September of
that year, but remain friends. Sammy now lives with Mia, on
the same road as her parents Jayne and Martin Winward who
are helping her with baby Mia, and recently dated rugby
player and former teacher, David Mercer, but ended it after
rumours of him cheating and other problems between the two
of them. [1] She is now rumoured to be dating Robin Hood
star Jonas Armstrong.
She appeared in the ITV celebrity talent show Soapstar
Superstar in January 2006.
In March 2006, she appeared on the Orange Playlist. Here she
explained that she was training to be a ballerina before
being picked by her agent Ruth Young to attend the Emmerdale
audition.
Winward was voted number 73 in FHM's 2006 100 Sexiest Women
in the World poll. |
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Other
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Was engaged to footballer David Dunn. However they remain
good friends.
Gave birth to her first child, a girl. Mia weighed 5lbs.
14oz, and was born at home in Bolton. [12 June 2005]
Coincidentally, she and her co-star Lucy Pargeter (who plays
Chastity Dingle) were pregnant at the same time.
Split up with her fiancé David Dunn in September 2005 after
the birth of their daughter, although the pair remain
"friends". |
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since November 1, 2007