Malandra Burrows
| Malandra Burrows | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Born |
Malandra Elizabeth Newman 4 November 1965 Woolton, Liverpool, Lancashire, England |
| Other names | Malandra Newman |
Malandra Elizabeth Burrows (born 4 November 1965, Woolton, Liverpool, Lancashire) is an English actress and singer. She is best known for her long-running role as Kathy Glover in ITV soap opera Emmerdale.
Burrows' first name, Malandra, is a portmanteau of her parents' names, Malcolm and Sandra. Her mother encouraged her at an early age to begin dancing; she initially trained under Billy Pearce's mother Jean. She appeared on Yorkshire Television’s Junior Showtime at the age of six. In 1974 Malandra Newman became the youngest-ever winner of New Faces, appearing on the same "all-winners" show with Tor Smith and Victoria Wood. Her interest in music continued throughout her early adolescence, and at age 13 she won the 1978 BBC Merseyside Songwriter of the Year award. She attended King David High School in Childwall.
After deciding that she wanted to be a performer, she joined the Everyman Youth Theatre in Liverpool, did classes at Liverpool Theatre School and also did productions with a local amateur dramatics company at St Peter's, in Woolton, whilst continuing to perform musically. After leaving school with eleven O-levels, she enrolled in a Liverpool drama school, where she remained for two years learning her future trade of acting — changing her surname to Burrows for registration with Equity, the British actors' union.
Even before leaving drama school, Burrows played several roles on television, appearing in The Practice and Fell Tiger, as well as taking two parts in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside - firstly Lucy Coflins' schoolfriend, Sue, and then Lisa Morrissey, the girlfriend of Pat Hancock, in 1982.
...
Wikipedia