Emma Rigby Quotes

United Kingdom, Actress
September 26, 1989

Emma Catherine Rigby (born 26 September 1989) is an English actress. She is best known for playing the role of Hannah Ashworth in long-running soap opera Hollyoaks, Gemma Roscoe in BBC One drama series Prisoners' Wives and as the Red Queen in American fantasy-drama Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. She played the lead role of Angie in Movies 24's A Cinderella Christmas (2016). She is due to appear in The Protector (2018) a passionflix adaptation of the Jodi Ellen Malpas book.

When you're in a soap, it's fantastic, and I'm really grateful for the fans who watch you and support you. For me, it was the best experience because I was able to act every day and work with so many different directors and get some great storylines and learn on-screen.

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I've been on 'Hollyoaks' since I was 15, and I've grown up on the show. I'm so very fortunate to be given the opportunity to learn my craft in such a fantastic environment.

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I've always been a performer. I love doing impressions of people and being the clown.

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- People
I love gritty drama. I'm passionate about films and drama that make you think - hard-hitting, gravelly characters.

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- Drama
My mum took me to the ballet at three, and that was the only time I sat still, with jaw open, mesmerised. She brought me home, and I wouldn't stop dancing.

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I did really well at school, and I would have loved to have gone to Oxford or Cambridge. I would have read English, and I'm really interested in politics.

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- School
- English