Storme Toolis

Storme Toolis (born 26 November 1992) is an actress. Her family come from Achill Island in County Mayo, Ireland. Her mother is Dea Birkett, a television and print journalist; she has a younger brother and a younger sister.[1]

Storme Toolis
OccupationActor 

She first appeared on film in Channel 4's The Inbetweeners as an extra, and then as a minor character in The Inbetweeners Movie, based on the earlier television series, subsequently joining the cast of New Tricks as Holly Griffin in August 2013 in Series 10 Episode 5, Cry Me a River, of show.

Toolis has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair.[2][3] She is an advocate of the rights of disabled actors to play disabled roles.[4]

For her role in New Tricks Toolis was described as "one of the few disabled actors in Britain, and across the world, to play a minor role in a mainstream drama where the disability of her character is not a feature of the plot, and her role has been compared to Walt Jr in the US Breaking Bad series."[5]

References
  1. Emma Broomfield (14 August 2011). "Storme on the horizon". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 3 September 2013.
  2. "Kennington actress Storme Toolis breaks TV taboos". Kennington Runoff. 28 August 2013. Retrieved 3 September 2013.
  3. Dea Birkett (5 August 2011). "My daughter stars in The Inbetweeners Movie – so does her wheelchair". The Telegraph. Retrieved 3 September 2013.
  4. Jo Usmar (28 August 2013). "New Tricks' Storme Toolis: What you need to know about actress with cerebral palsy set to feature in 'TV's first disabled character sex scene'". Mirror Online. Retrieved 3 September 2013.
  5. Jo Usmar (28 August 2013). "Should only disabled actors be allowed to play disabled roles on TV?". Mirror Online. Retrieved 3 September 2013.


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