Yasmin Bannerman (born 1970) is an English actress. Bannerman was born and brought up in

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and attended the

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in London until 1993. She has had roles in television series such as ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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'', and in the films ''

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'' and '' Killing Me Softly''.

Background

Yasmin Bannerman was born and brought up in

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, where she attended St Peter's Roman Catholic School. She spent time acting there and later joined the Everyman Youth Theatre in

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before beginning a degree in modern

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at the

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. She dropped out after a year to attend the

in London, graduating in 1993.Laws, Roz (29 March 2005). "I must be bark-ing". ''Sunday Mercury'': p. 3 (features).

Career

Her first television role came in 1995 when she appeared in an episode of '' Crown Prosecutor''. Shortly afterwards she was cast as

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's soap opera ''

''. She describes her role in the soap as "demanding", though the character appeared less frequently as time went on. Further appearances include a brief role in ''

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'' and a recurring role in the

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of ''

'' as Jessica Barnes, a local political activist who has an affair with David Marsden (played by

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).Ellard, Andrew (20 April 2001).
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Ben Elton Benjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May 1959) is an English comedian, actor, author, playwright, lyricist and director. He was a part of London's alternative comedy movement of the 1980s and became a writer on the sitcoms '' The Young Ones'' and ''Bla ...

's ''

'' as Melinda. Further appearances include roles in ''

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'', ''In Deep'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and an eight-episode stint in ''

''. In 2005 she played Jabe (an alien that resembles a tree) in the second episode of

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' revival of ''

''. Her audition was "shrouded in secrecy" and the part required a lengthy make-up process; the prosthetics took three hours to apply and 90 minutes to remove. Further involvement in the ''Doctor Who'' franchise includes guest roles in the

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'' and ''

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'', and a part in the ''

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'' episode "

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". In 2015, she played Roz Forrester, a companion of the

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, in three novel adaptations of the Virgin New and Missing Adventures, ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. These stories were adapted by

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. She later reprised the role in a series of four stories released in November 2018, entitled "The Seventh Doctor: The New Adventures". In 2017, Bannerman is playing

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, a character in the ''

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'' audio adventure series by

. Bannerman is the third actress to play Dayna following

Josette Simon Josette Patricia Simon is a British actress. She trained for the stage at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, and played the part of Dayna Mellanby in the third and fourth series of the television sci-fi series ''Blake's 7'' fro ...

in the television series and

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in the BBC Radio series.

Filmography

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bannerman, Yasmin 1972 births People educated at St Peter's High School, Gloucester Alumni of Rose Bruford College Black British actresses English film actresses English television actresses Living people Actresses from Gloucestershire People from Gloucester 20th-century English actresses 21st-century English actresses