Mandana Jones is an Anglo-Iranian actress best known for her role as prisoner Nikki Wade on the British television series, '' Bad Girls''.

Biography

Mandana Jones was born on 26 February 1967 to a Welsh father and an Iranian mother. She is the youngest of three, having two older brothers. She has a son, Enzo, born on 27 October 2005.

Acting roles

Jones's TV work includes the regional soap ''

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'' (shown in certain ITV regions in the UK in the mid-1990s) and the BBC daytime soap ''

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''. Probably her most high-profile role is as lesbian lifer Nikki Wade on '' Bad Girls'', in which her on-screen love interest, Helen Stewart, was played by another former cast member of ''London Bridge'',

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. Her second largest role was in the 2004 BBC TV children's show '' Powers'', where she played Dr. Mary Holland for the duration of the 13-episode series. Between ''Bad Girls'' and ''Powers'', she had a small role in the short, ''Occasional, Strong'' (2002). Other work during this time includes the aforementioned ''Doctors'', where she played Sandra Underwood (2003), BBC's Afternoon Play, ''Coming Up For Air'' (2003), ''

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'' (1 episode, 2003), ''

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'' (1 episode, 2004). She returned to ''Doctors'' in 2005, playing a different character (Ria Ford, 6 episodes), for which she was nominated for

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at the

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. She then had a small stint as a marriage counsellor Anna Price in ''

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''. Jones also played a character named Nancy Randall in ''

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'' during December 2008. She played a character named Charlotte Thornhill in ''

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'' on 7 November 2010. In 2012, she played Dr Broadwood in an episode of ''

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''. In April 2016 Mandana worked on Emmerdale as Aaron's solicitor in a case against Aaron's father.

Filmography

References

External links

*
Mandana Jones fan site - News from agents or Mandana herself!

British soap opera actresses 1967 births Living people British people of Iranian descent English people of Welsh descent {{UK-tv-actor-1960s-stub