Kacey Ainsworth | |
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Born | 19 October 1968 |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1995–present |
Children | 2 |
Kacey Ainsworth (born 19 October 1968) is an English actress. She is known for playing the long-suffering Little Mo in the BBC soap opera EastEnders (2000–06), for which she won the 2002 National Television Award for Most Popular Actress, and twice won the British Soap Award for Best Actress (2002–03). Her other television roles include the BBC drama HolbyBlue (2007–08) and the ITV drama Grantchester (2014–16).
Kacey Ainsworth, is the only soap actress who has won three Soap Actress awards in one single year in 2002. She won these awards at the British Soap Awards, Inside Soap Awards, TV Quick and Choice Awards and at the National Television Awards, all held in 2002. She made her final appearance in EastEnders in May 2006.
Ainsworth has also appeared in other TV productions such as the now defunct long-running ITV police drama The Bill and detective serial A Touch of Frost. In 2005 it was rumoured that Ainsworth would be appearing in three episodes of the American television drama Desperate Housewives, but this was later proved to be a practical joke spread by her EastEnders co-star Shane Richie. Kacey also starred in Famous and Fearless on Channel 4.
She recently appeared as Peter Pan at the Children's Party at the Palace in 2006, and as Auntie Lou, in "Carrie's War" in London's West End, summer 2009.
In February 2007, Ainsworth appeared in an episode of Hotel Babylon as a hard-nosed tabloid editor.