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List Of The Story Of Tracy Beaker (franchise) Spin-offs
''The Story of Tracy Beaker'' is a British children's drama media franchise that focuses on the lives and experiences of young people and their care workers in care. This is a list of spin-off's to the trilogy of CBBC children's drama series ''The Story of Tracy Beaker'', ''Tracy Beaker Returns'' and ''The Dumping Ground'', which have spanned nineteen years between them. Spin-offs overview The Story of Tracy Beaker Tracy Beaker: The Movie of Me Tracy Beaker: The Movie of Me is a television movie and a spin-off to ''The Story of Tracy Beaker'' that broadcast on 21 February 2004 on CBBC. The film was shot in Cardiff, Wales, with scenes at Castell Coch, and London, England. The movie was later released on DVD. Originally broadcast part-way through the release of Series 3, the exact placement of this story in the wider continuity of the series is debatable. The Dumping Ground is as it appears in Series 2, with the subtle additions introduced in the third series being absent (no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's '' Poetics'' (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory. The term "drama" comes from a Greek word meaning "deed" or " act" (Classical Greek: , ''drâma''), which is derived from "I do" (Classical Greek: , ''dráō''). The two masks associated with drama represent the traditional generic division between comedy and tragedy. In English (as was the analogous case in many other European languages), the word ''play'' or ''game'' (translating the Anglo-Saxon ''pleġan'' or Latin ''ludus'') was the standard term for dramas until William Shakespeare's time—just as its creator was a ''play-maker'' rather than a ''dramatist'' and the building was a ''play-house'' r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Coleman (actress)
Lisa Jacqueline Coleman (born 10 July 1970) is an English actress best known for her television roles as Jude Korcanik in ''Casualty'' and Cam Lawson in ''The Story of Tracy Beaker'' (2002–2005). Coleman reprised the role in ''Tracy Beaker Returns'' (2010–2012) and again in 2021 for ''My Mum Tracy Beaker'' and ''The Beaker Girls''. Career Coleman was born in Hammersmith, London, and attended Anna Scher Theatre School at age six, going on to complete secondary education and A-levels. After working in television at various times since the early 1980s, in the mid-1990s she began a Bachelor's degree in Psychology with the UK Open University. She appeared in the BBC television drama series ''Casualty'' playing the character of staff nurse Jude Korcanik from September 1994 to February 1997. Her character survived a stabbing by a drug addict before moving to Crete. In 1993 she modelled for Euan Uglow's painting ''Articulation'', posing nude. Her radio work includes a six-part se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nisha Nayar
Nisha K Nayar is a British actress. After coming to prominence in the 1993 film ''Bhaji on the Beach'', she had starring roles as Debra Kumar in the film ''Out of Hours'' in 1998 and as Elaine "the Pain" Boyak in the CBBC children's series, ''The Story of Tracy Beaker'' from 2002 to 2005. She also appeared as Joyce Hammond in the ITV crime drama ''Rose and Maloney'' between 2004 and 2005 and starred as Fran Keeley in the Channel 4 drama ''Before We Die'' in 2021. Life and career Nisha K. Nayar was born in Great Oyster Bay, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania before her family relocated to Toronto, Canada when Nayar was six years old. Her family then relocated again to the United Kingdom, and Nayar grew up in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England and later trained at The Anna Scher Theatre School. Nayar made her acting debut in 1987, in the BBC sci-fi television programme ''Doctor Who'' in which she played the uncredited role of Red Kang. In 1991, Nayar appeared in her first major stage ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Layla (The Story Of Tracy Beaker Character)
This is a list of characters that were introduced in CBBC's ''The Story of Tracy Beaker''. The series is based on the book of the same name by Jacqueline Wilson. It ran on for five series from 2002 to 2005. The series was followed by ''Tracy Beaker Returns'' that ran for three series from 2010 to 2012 and then ''The Dumping Ground'' that has aired since 2013. Connor Byrne has played the role of Mike Milligan for all three programmes although he left at the end of ''The Dumping Grounds seventh series. Dani Harmer, Lisa Coleman and Montanna Thompson reprised their roles as Tracy Beaker, Cam Lawson and Justine Littlewood for ''Tracy Beaker Returns'', and again in ''My Mum Tracy Beaker''. Cast Main characters Tracy Beaker Mike Milligan Michael Kevin Lucius "Mike" Milligan MBE, made his first appearance on 8 January 2002 in series 1 of ''The Story of Tracy Beaker'' during the episode "Tracy Returns to The Dumping Ground" and departed in "The End!" but he returned in series 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cara Readle
Cara Readle (born 8 January 1991) is a Welsh actress from Swansea, Wales, known mainly for her role as Layla in ''The Story of Tracy Beaker'' from series three to five. Early life and career Readle, formally known as Melissa, was born in Swansea to an English father, Alan and Welsh mother, Tracy and raised in Mumbles, and has cerebral palsy. The characters she played in ''Zig Zag Love'' and ''The Story of Tracy Beaker'' also have this condition. In November 2009, she also had a part in ''Casualty'', playing a patient with cerebral palsy called Serena Wark. The character's sister, Shona Wark, portrayed by Evelyn Hoskins, has reappeared several times as a recurring character, becoming involved in a storyline centring on character Charlie Fairhead ( Derek Thompson), but despite this, Serena has never reappeared. Cara more recently worked with BBC Ouch! to share life experiences about her disability. From 2011, she has starred in the BBC Wales series '' Baker Boys'' as Elen, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayley (The Story Of Tracy Beaker Character)
This is a list of characters that were introduced in CBBC's ''The Story of Tracy Beaker''. The series is based on the book of the same name by Jacqueline Wilson. It ran on for five series from 2002 to 2005. The series was followed by ''Tracy Beaker Returns'' that ran for three series from 2010 to 2012 and then ''The Dumping Ground'' that has aired since 2013. Connor Byrne has played the role of Mike Milligan for all three programmes although he left at the end of ''The Dumping Grounds seventh series. Dani Harmer, Lisa Coleman and Montanna Thompson reprised their roles as Tracy Beaker, Cam Lawson and Justine Littlewood for ''Tracy Beaker Returns'', and again in ''My Mum Tracy Beaker''. Cast Main characters Tracy Beaker Mike Milligan Michael Kevin Lucius "Mike" Milligan MBE, made his first appearance on 8 January 2002 in series 1 of ''The Story of Tracy Beaker'' during the episode "Tracy Returns to The Dumping Ground" and departed in "The End!" but he returned in series 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
