Rachel Leskovac

Rachel Leskovac (born 5 June 1976) is an Olivier award-nominated English actress and singer known for playing serial killer nurse Kelly Yorke in the BBC medical drama Holby City, hairdresser Natasha Blakeman in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street and Joanne Cardsley in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks.

Leskovac was born in Bradford, England. Her mother is English and her father is of Croatian descent. Leskovac has a younger sister, Sophie, and an older sister, Kate.

Leskovac attended St Joseph's Catholic College in Bradford and during her youth was a member of local theatre group Scala Kids. She later trained at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, graduating in 1998.

Leskovac received critical acclaim for her performance as the young Viv in the musical Spend Spend Spend and was nominated for the Best Actress in a Musical Olivier. She played serial killer nurse Kelly Yorke on Holby City. In 2003, she played Ciara Pickering in the fourth series of At Home with the Braithwaites. In 2006 she also starred in a TV movie called Losing Gemma for Granada TV.

In April 2008 Leskovac was signed up to play Natasha Blakeman, a hairdresser on ITV soap Coronation Street. She left the soap in 2010. In 2010, Leskovac sang on the Corrie 50th Anniversary CD and appeared on several TV shows advertising the duet 'He's my Man' alongside fellow Coronation Street actress Kym Marsh. Leskovac played Margaret, sister of Betty in the 1950s drama A Passionate Woman alongside Billie Piper in 2010.

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