Emily Fleeshman (born 26 December 1986) is an English actress. She is most widely known for her roles as Nikki in ''

Still Open All Hours ''Still Open All Hours'' is a British sitcom created for the BBC by Roy Clarke, and starring David Jason and James Baxter. It is the sequel to the sitcom ''Open All Hours'', which both Clarke and Jason worked on throughout its 26-episode run ...

'' and Sally in '' Moving On''. She is the daughter of actor

David Fleeshman David Fleeshman (born 11 July 1952) is a British actor, broadcaster, drama lecturer and theatre director with a wealth of experience in film, radio, television, theatre and commercials. Biography Fleeshman was born on 11 July 1952 in Leeds, Wes ...

and actress

Sue Jenkins Susan Elizabeth Jenkins (born 31 July 1955) is an English actress. She is most widely known for her roles as Gloria Todd in the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' (1985–1988) and as Jackie Corkhill in the Channel 4 soap opera '' Brookside ...

, the sister of actor

Richard Fleeshman Richard Jonathan Fleeshman (born 8 June 1989) is an English actor and singer. His television career began as a 12-year-old, playing Craig Harris for four years in ''Coronation Street'' before going on to become an established television, West E ...

and actress Rosie Fleeshman. Along with her parents, she is a founder of The Actors' Lab, an acting school based at MediaCityUK,

Salford Salford () is a city and the largest settlement in the City of Salford metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. In 2011, Salford had a population of 103,886. It is also the second and only other city in the metropolitan county afte ...

. and a patron of the 24:7 Theatre Festival. In 2016, she was announced as an E3 Business Awards North West finalist for the Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in recognition of her achievements with the Actors'Lab.

Career

Emily Fleeshman made her debut at the

Manchester Central Library Manchester Central Library is the headquarters of the city's library and information service in Manchester, England. Facing St Peter's Square, it was designed by E. Vincent Harris and constructed between 1930 and 1934. The form of the building ...

theatre aged 11, is a former member of Youth Unlimited Theatre Group and attended Cheadle Hulme School in Cheshire. She studied for a degree in

Theatre Studies Theatre studies (sometimes referred to as theatrology or dramatics) is the study of theatrical performance in relation to its literary, physical, psychobiological, sociological, and historical contexts. It is an interdisciplinary field which also e ...

at Lancaster University. She has appeared in several television and radio series, and a short film and with regularity in the

BBC One BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It is the corporation's flagship network and is known for broadcasting mainstream programming, which includes BBC News television bulletins, ...

sitcom, ''

'', as Nikki. She is the third member of the family to appear in ''

The Royal ''The Royal'' is a British period medical drama, produced by Yorkshire Television (later part of ITV Studios), and broadcast on ITV1 from 2003 until its cancellation in 2011. The series is set in the 1960s and focuses on the lives of the ...

'' following her mother and father. Her father, mother and brother have all appeared in '' Coronation Street''. Theatre credits include: ''

Tinker Bell Tinker Bell is a fictional character from J. M. Barrie's 1904 play '' Peter Pan'' and its 1911 novelisation ''Peter and Wendy''. She has appeared in a variety of film and television adaptations of the Peter Pan stories, in particular the 1953 ...

'' in ''

Peter Pan Peter Pan is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie. A free-spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the mythi ...

'' at

The Lowry The Lowry is a theatre and gallery complex at Salford Quays, Salford, Greater Manchester, England. It is named after the early 20th-century painter L. S. Lowry, known for his paintings of industrial scenes in North West England. The complex ope ...

, ''Rita, Sue and Bob Too'' (play) at the Theatre Royal, St Helens, ''The Crimson Retribution'' as part of the 24:7 Theatre festival, ''Once in a House on Fire'' at The Lowry, Salford. and ''JB Shorts 8 & 14'', Real Life Theatre Company

Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...

Television series

References

External links

* * Emily Fleeshman official website {{DEFAULTSORT:Fleeshman, Emily 1986 births Living people 21st-century English actresses English television actresses People from Withington