Alicya Eyo
| Alicya Eyo | |
|---|---|
| Born |
16 December 1975 Huyton, Liverpool |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1997–present |
| Notable work |
Bad Girls Emmerdale |
| Website | Official site |
Alicya Eyo (born 16 December 1975, Huyton, Liverpool) is a British theatre, film and television actress, best known for playing Ruby Haswell in the ITV soap opera, Emmerdale and, previously, for playing Denny Blood in the prison drama series Bad Girls.
Eyo was brought up in Toxteth, Liverpool. When she was fourteen, she moved to London. Eyo’s love of drama started when she was nine. She attended classes every Saturday, with dancing. She did her drama training in King's Cross, at the Courtyard Theatre School.
Eyo's first television appearance was in 1997, in Casualty, which was filmed earlier. She also made an appearance on Hetty Wainthropp Investigates and appeared in Gold the follow up drama series to Band Of Gold as a young prostitute involved with Yardie gangsters who come over to Bradfords red light district from Leeds to clear up the Lane. In 1999, Eyo appeared with Goldie in the David Bowie film Everybody Loves Sunshine known as B.U.S.T.E.D., internationally. She also starred in the movie G:MT - Greenwich Mean Time. However, Eyo's big break came in 1998 when she was offered the part of Denny Blood, in Bad Girls. The series was broadcast in June the following year when the UK viewing public first saw Eyo as Denny Blood in a pink PVC suit dancing to the N-Trance remix of Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees. Her agent told her that the production company, Shed, were looking for a 'shit, young, black, skinhead, tattoos with piercing'.
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