Occupation Actress Parents Teresa Fitzgerald Role Actress | Name Lorna Fitzgerald Years active 2005–present | |
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Full Name Lorna Katie Fitzgerald Siblings Abigail Fitzgerald, Corinne Fitzgerald Awards The British Soap Award for Best Young Performance Similar People Shona McGarty, Jamie Borthwick, Jo Joyner, Jake Wood, Danielle Harold Profiles | ||
British soap awards 2012 best young performance lorna fitzgerald
Lorna Katie Fitzgerald (born 17 April 1996) is a British actress from Northampton. She lives in Hunsbury. Her most notable role to date is that of Abi Branning in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
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- British soap awards 2012 best young performance lorna fitzgerald
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- Personal life
- Career
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Personal life
Fitzgerald started attending Stagecoach Drama Classes at the age of four. She has two older sisters and is a keen dancer and enjoys ballet and tap. Fitzgerald also plays the guitar and keeps active by swimming.
Career
Fitzgerald has appeared in the Casualty episode "Animals", and a short film called Big Girl, Little Girl. She also appeared in the ITV drama The Golden Hour, as well as playing Sarah Lancashire's daughter Jade Cannings in Cherished, and Young Bex in According to Bex. She has appeared in adverts for Childline and Nescafe.
After attending acting classes, Fitzgerald joined the Stagecoach Theatre Arts School in Stony Stratford, and Derngate Theatre School. Through her agent put her forward for the role in BBC One soap opera EastEnders, and went for the first of three auditions and was cast as Abi Branning, making her first appearance in 2006.
In November 2009, Fitzgerald was involved in a charity project in Northampton called Talking With Hands, a charity for people with hearing impairments and deafness. The project featured on ITV's Anglia News, alongside deaf actor Alex Nowak, and Fitzgerald helped with this project.
