Alison Pargeter | |
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Born |
31 May 1972 (age 44) Oxford, Oxfordshire, England |
Nationality | British |
Occupation | Actress |
Television |
Rock & Chips Mary Slessor EastEnders |
Alison Pargeter (born 31 May 1972) is an English actress who played the roles of stalker Sarah Cairns in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, also Mary Slessor in an 11-part television series of Mary Slessor, and the Nag's Head barmaid called Val in the BBC Only Fools and Horses prequel Rock & Chips.
Pargeter has made several appearances over the years on screen and in June 2000 she made a guest appearance in the Channel 5 Horror series Urban Gothic playing the role of a 21-year-old student called Leila Haze who had received a transplant from the surgeon, and in May 2001 she made guest appearance in an episode of the long-running ITV police drama series The Bill where she played the role of Katie who was a 15-year-old under age prostitute, and also in June 2003 she made guest appearance as Natalie in another Horror TV series called Strange which also starred EastEnders Star Samantha Womack, and in January 2004 also saw her play a barmaid in an episode of the BBC crime drama series Dalziel and Pascoe, and two mouths later in March 2004 she made a guest appearance as Sylvia Dyson in the BBC drama Holby City,
Between September and October 2004, she played a stalker named Sarah Cairns in EastEnders who appeared in 21 episodes, She was a barmaid who worked in Angie's Den club, and tried to split Martin Fowler up from his wife Sonia following a drunken night together. She exited the series following a fight where she accidentally stabbed Martin and got committed to a mental institution.
In June and November 2004 she made a guest appearance as Deborah Harker in two episodes of The Courtroom, and in September 2005 she appeared just in the very first episode of the first series of the BBC comedy series Love Soup as a Nurse called Siobhan, and In March 2006 also saw her play a Nurse in the Channel 4 comedy series Green Wing, and also in December 2006 she made a guest appearance as Donna Carlyle in an episode of the BBC drama Casualty, And also in October 2007 also saw her making another guest appearance in The Bill again for two episodes where she played the role of Shelley Cooper.