Fern Saffron Deacon (born 1 September 1998) is an English actress. She is known for her roles as
Chloe Voyle
''Ackley Bridge'' is a British television drama series that follows the lives of the staff and pupils at the fictional multi-cultural academy school Ackley Bridge College. Series one features the debuts of friends Missy Booth (Poppy Lee Friar) ...
on the
Channel 4
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drama ''
Ackley Bridge
''Ackley Bridge'' is a British comedy-drama series set in a multicultural academy school of the same name. The series is filmed in Halifax, West Yorkshire and it began broadcasting on Channel 4 on 7 June 2017. In the fourth series, ''Ackley B ...
'' and Agnes on the
CBBC
CBBC (initialised as Children's BBC and also known as the CBBC Channel) is a British free-to-air Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast children's television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is also the bran ...
series ''
Hetty Feather
''Hetty Feather'' is a book by English author Jacqueline Wilson. It is about a young red-haired girl who was left by her mother at the Foundling Hospital as a baby and follows her story as she lives in a foster home before returning to the Fou ...
''.
Early life
Fern Saffron Deacon was born on 1 September 1998 in
Hampshire
Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in western South East England on the coast of the English Channel. Home to two major English cities on its south coast, Southampton and Portsmouth, Hampshire ...
, England.
When she was five, her parents enrolled her in acting classes, and at the age of 11, she was accepted into
Sylvia Young Theatre School
Sylvia Young Theatre School is an independent school in Marble Arch, London, England. It is a specialist performing arts school named after its founder and principal, Sylvia Young OBE.
Outline
The Sylvia Young Theatre School was founded in ...
.
Career
In 2011, Deacon made her professional acting debut in a stage production of ''Kin'' at the Royal Court Theatre,
and later that year, she played the younger version of Electra in an adaptation of ''
Electra'' at the
Gate Theatre
The Gate Theatre is a theatre on Cavendish Row in Dublin, Ireland. It was founded in 1928.
History Beginnings
The Gate Theatre was founded in 1928 by Hilton Edwards and Micheál MacLiammóir with Daisy Bannard Cogley and Gearóid Ó Lochlai ...
.
Deacon made her television debut in "
Amy's Choice", an episode of the
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''. She then appeared in three episodes of the BBC supernatural drama ''
''. Later that year, she began portraying the role of
''. In the same month, she began appearing in the
'' as Agnes, a role she portrayed until 2020. In 2018, she appeared in an episode of the BBC drama ''
'' as Lily Rattle.