Samantha Kate Winward (born 12 October 1985) is an English actress. She is best known for playing Katie Sugden in the ITV soap opera ''

Emmerdale ''Emmerdale'' (known as ''Emmerdale Farm'' until 1989) is a British television soap opera that is broadcast on ITV (TV network), ITV. The show is set in Emmerdale (known as Beckindale until 1994), a List of fictional towns and villages, fict ...

'' between 2001 and 2015.

Early life

Winward was born in

Bolton Bolton ( , locally ) is a town in Greater Manchester in England. In the foothills of the West Pennine Moors, Bolton is between Manchester, Blackburn, Wigan, Bury, Greater Manchester, Bury and Salford. It is surrounded by several towns and vill ...

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, England. She attended Turton High School in Bromley Cross, South Turton.

Personal life

Winward was engaged to footballer David Dunn. Their daughter, Mia, was born at home in

Edgworth Edgworth is a small village in the civil parish of North Turton, in the borough of Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, England. It is between Broadhead Brook on the west (expanded artificially to form the Wayoh Reservoir) and Quarlton Brook in t ...

Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated ''Lancs'') is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Greater Manchester and Merseyside to the south, and the Irish Sea to ...

on 12 June 2005. Winward and Dunn split in September of that year.

Career

At age 15, Winward began appearing as Katie Sugden in the ITV soap opera ''

''. A year after her debut in July 2001, she was nominated for "Most Popular Newcomer" at the

National Television Awards The National Television Awards (often shortened to NTAs) is a British television awards ceremony, broadcast by the ITV network and begun in 1995. The National Television Awards are the most prominent ceremony for which the results are voted o ...

. In November 2014, Winward announced that she would leave ''Emmerdale'' after 13 years to pursue other projects. Her character died onscreen in February 2015. In January 2006, Winward participated in the first series of the reality singing competition '' Soapstar Superstar'', finishing in tenth place. Later that year, she was voted #73 on '' FHM''s list of the 100 Sexiest Women in the World. On the second season of ITV's crime thriller series ''Prey'', Winward appeared as the heavily pregnant Lucy, whose father (

Philip Glenister Philip Haywood Glenister (born 10 February 1963) is an English actor. He is known for his role as DCI Gene Hunt in the BBC series ''Life on Mars'' (2006–2007) and its sequel '' Ashes to Ashes'' (2008–2010). He also played DCI William Bell ...

) goes on the run after finding himself on the wrong side of the law. In their review of the second season's third episode, which aired in December 2015, ''Cultbox'' commented, "Glenister and inwardmake a convincing father and daughter pairing and, despite limited screen time, Winward does make you really feel Lucy's distress and fear". In 2023, Winward played Sonia Sutcliffe—wife of serial killer

Peter Sutcliffe Peter William Sutcliffe (2 June 1946 – 13 November 2020), also known as Peter Coonan, was an English serial killer who was convicted of murdering thirteen women and attempting to murder seven others between 1975 and 1980. He was du ...

—in the critically acclaimed true crime miniseries, '' The Long Shadow'', which marked her return to television after working as an acting teacher.

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