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Melissa Suffield in blue. (Getty Images)Melissa Suffield is a British actress best known for her role in EastEnders on the BBC. She started on the show in 2004.
According to
Wikipedia , she was born on December 24, 1992 in London, England. She plays the guitar and piano among many other instruments. Although she does not take lessons or perform, she enjoys singing too, as was shown in the
EastEnders Beatles medley for Children in Need 2007 and in the 2008 appeal, in which she performed a song from the stage version of
Mary Poppins, alongside
Laurie Brett, who plays her on-screen stepmother, Jane Beale. She has since reprised a singing role in the
EastEnders Children in Need medley for 2009. She has taken ballet lessons since the age of two, and still dances under the Royal Academy of Dance syllabus at the intermediate grade. Suffield has three sisters and is in a long-term relationship with her boyfriend.