Laura Sadler

== Life and career ==

== Life and career ==

Sadler was born in [[Ascot, Berkshire|Ascot]], [[Berkshire]], and grew up in [[High Wycombe]], [[Buckinghamshire]].<ref name="Laura Sadler : Biography">{{cite web |url=http://www.freewebs.com/laurasadlertribute/bio.html |title=Laura Sadler : Biography |publisher=freewebs.com |accessdate=6 July 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130706160146/http://www.freewebs.com/laurasadlertribute/bio.html |archivedate=6 July 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> As a young girl she enrolled at the Jackie Palmer Stage School in High Wycombe, before joining the [[Sylvia Young Theatre School]] in [[London]].<ref name = bbcbio>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2994486.stm |title=Entertainment &#124; Obituary: Laura Sadler |work=BBC News |date=20 June 2003 |accessdate=11 November 2011}}</ref> She was spotted as a future talent at the age of six by [[Dustin Hoffman]], who had seen her in a play and asked to meet her.<ref name = bbcbio/> Before joining the cast of ''Holby City'', she had played Judi Jeffreys in the [[children's television series]] ''[[Grange Hill (TV series)|Grange Hill]]'' from 1997 to 1999. Her ''Grange Hill'' character died after slipping and falling out of a burning building.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/lifestyle/showbiz/actress-dies-after-fall-1655829|title=Actress dies after fall|last=Chronicle|first=Evening|date=2003-06-19|website=nechronicle|access-date=2019-09-21}}</ref> She also played the part of Skirty Marm in a [[BBC1]] children's comedy, ''[[Belfry Witches]]''. Skirty Marm and her friend Old Noshie ([[Lucy Davis]]) were teenage witches banished to Earth from Witch Island, settling in a sleepy village where they caused mischief.

Sadler was born in [[Ascot, Berkshire|Ascot]], [[Berkshire]], and grew up in [[High Wycombe]], [[Buckinghamshire]].<ref name="Laura Sadler : Biography">{{cite web |url=http://www.freewebs.com/laurasadlertribute/bio.html |title=Laura Sadler : Biography |publisher=freewebs.com |accessdate=6 July 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130706160146/http://www.freewebs.com/laurasadlertribute/bio.html |archivedate=6 July 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> As a young girl she enrolled at the Jackie Palmer Stage School in High Wycombe, before joining the [[Sylvia Young Theatre School]] in [[London]].<ref name = bbcbio>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2994486.stm |title=Entertainment &#124; Obituary: Laura Sadler |work=[[BBC News]] |date=20 June 2003 |accessdate=11 November 2011}}</ref> She was spotted as a future talent at the age of six by [[Dustin Hoffman]], who had seen her in a play and asked to meet her.<ref name = bbcbio/> Before joining the cast of ''Holby City'', she had played Judi Jeffreys in the [[children's television series]] ''[[Grange Hill (TV series)|Grange Hill]]'' from 1997 to 1999. Her ''Grange Hill'' character died after slipping and falling out of a burning building.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/lifestyle/showbiz/actress-dies-after-fall-1655829|title=Actress dies after fall|last=Chronicle|first=Evening|date=2003-06-19|website=nechronicle|access-date=2019-09-21}}</ref> She also played the part of Skirty Marm in a [[BBC1]] children's comedy, ''[[Belfry Witches]]''. Skirty Marm and her friend Old Noshie ([[Lucy Davis]]) were teenage witches banished to Earth from Witch Island, settling in a sleepy village where they caused mischief.

In 1996, she starred in the feature film ''[[Intimate Relations (1996 film)|Intimate Relations]]'' alongside [[Julie Walters]], where she played a girl with a crush on her mother's adulterous lover. She joined the cast of ''[[Holby City]]'', a [[Spin-off (media)|spin-off]] series from the long-running BBC medical drama series ''[[Casualty (TV series)|Casualty]]'', in the show's third series, playing the nurse [[Sandy Harper]] up until her death.

In 1996, she starred in the feature film ''[[Intimate Relations (1996 film)|Intimate Relations]]'' alongside [[Julie Walters]], where she played a girl with a crush on her mother's adulterous lover. She joined the cast of ''[[Holby City]]'', a [[Spin-off (media)|spin-off]] series from the long-running BBC medical drama series ''[[Casualty (TV series)|Casualty]]'', in the show's third series, playing the nurse [[Sandy Harper]] up until her death.