Lisa Faulkner

Lisa Tamsin Faulkner (born 19 February 1972)[1] is an English actor, presenter and celebrity chef.

Lisa Faulkner
Born
Lisa Tamsin Faulkner

(1972-02-19) 19 February 1972
Merton, London, England
OccupationActress, celebrity chef, presenter
Years active1992–present
Spouse(s)
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(
m. 2005; div. 2011)
(
m. 2019)
Children1
WebsiteOfficial website

Early life

Faulkner was born in Merton, London. She was educated at Tiffin Girls' School in Kingston upon Thames.[2] When she was sixteen, her mother, Julie, died from throat cancer. Faulkner has since discussed her bereavement in a number of newspaper and magazine interviews.[3]

Career

At the age of 16, Faulkner was approached by a modelling scout while she was waiting on the platform of a London tube station.[4] In 1992 she made her first acting appearance in The Lover, starring Jane March. At age 23, Faulkner played the part of Alison Dangerfield in the British TV drama Dangerfield. She also starred in the 1995 British film A Feast at Midnight. In 1996, she appeared in And The Beat Goes On. Two years later, she played Louise Hope in the Channel 4 soap Brookside. Between 1999 and 2001, she played Dr Victoria Merrick in Holby City, before her character was stabbed to death in her own home by the father of a patient whose life she could not save.

In the TV show Spooks, her character Helen Flynn was killed off in only the second episode of the first series, having her hand and face burnt in a deep fat fryer before being shot in the head at point-blank range.[5] In 2004, she starred on ITV as D.S. Emma Scribbins ("Scribbs") in Murder in Suburbia, in which she played a CID policewoman in company with Caroline Catz, who played her boss, D.I. Ashurst. The show returned for a second series in 2005, with Scribbs adopting the then popular fashion style of "boho-chic". In 2006, she starred in the TV series New Street Law. Since June 2008, Faulkner has narrated the BBC1 show Heir Hunters, replacing Nadia Sawalha.[6]

She regularly teaches at Amanda Redman's Artists Theatre School.[7] Faulkner was voted one of FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World" six times between 1999 and 2004.[8] She regularly contributed to Big Brother's Little Brother, a magazine programme about the reality UK TV show Big Brother on Channel 4. She is a regular contributor to the Sky1 magazine show Angela and Friends.,[9] and the Channel 5 chat show The Wright Stuff.

In 2010, she won Celebrity Masterchef, beating Christine Hamilton and Dick Strawbridge in the final.[10] She appeared in the third-season premiere of the Canadian show Murdoch Mysteries when the series filmed an episode in and around Bristol, England, that was broadcast in 2010, and she returned for her second guest appearance in the fourth season in 2011. She also appeared twice in the fifth season.[11] She co-hosted Real Food Family Cook Off on Channel 5 with Matt Dawson. The series was broadcast in 2011. In 2013, she co-hosted the daytime Channel 4 series What's Cooking? with Ben Shephard and, in 2015, was reunited with Shephard to co-host an episode of This Morning Summer. In March 2017, it was announced that she would be joining EastEnders as Fi Browning, a "stylish and sophisticated" businesswoman.[12] Fi was later revealed to be Sophie Wilmott-Brown, the daughter of Kathy Beale's rapist James Willmott-Brown.

In March 2019, Faulkner and John Torode were given a weekend cooking show. They host John And Lisa's Weekend Kitchen on Sunday mornings on ITV.[13]

In July 2019, Faulkner appeared on Celebrity Gogglebox alongside her friend Nicola Stephenson. [14]

Books

Faulkner's first cookery book, Recipes from my Mother for my Daughter, was published in 2012.[15] Her second book, The Way I Cook, was published in September 2013. On 26 February 2015, she published another book, Tea & Cake'

Personal life

In 2005, Faulkner married Chris Coghill, her co-star from the TV series Burn It, in Richmond Park, London.[16] The couple adopted a fifteen-month-old girl who was born in 2006.[17] However, the couple separated and divorced in 2011,[18] and she is now married to the Australian chef John Torode.[19]

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1992 The Lover Helene Lagonelle
1994 A Feast at Midnight Miss Charlotte
1994 Le péril jeune Barbara
1995 Dangerfield Alison Dangerfield
1996 And the Beat Goes On Christine Spencer
1997–98 Brookside Louise Hope
1999–2001 Holby City Dr Victoria Merrick
2002 Spooks Helen Flynn 2 episodes
2003 Burn It Emma
2004-05 Murder in Suburbia Det. Sgt. Emma "Scribbs" Scribbins 2 series
2006–07 New Street Law Laura Scammell
2008–2011 Heir Hunters Narrator
2010 Celebrity MasterChef Contestant Won the series
2010–2012 Murdoch Mysteries Anna Fulford Canadian television show; 4 episodes
2011 Death in Paradise Alex Owen 1 episode
2011 Real Food Family Cook Off Co-presenter 1 series; with Matt Dawson
2013 What's Cooking? Co-presenter 1 series; with Ben Shephard
2015 This Morning Guest presenter 1 episode; with Ben Shephard
2017 EastEnders Fi Browning Regular role
2019- John And Lisa's Weekend Kitchen Co-presenter With John Torode
2019 Celebrity Gogglebox Herself With Nicola Stephenson

References
  1. Cineplex: Filmzitate – Kalender 2012, Aachen, Germany, Sept. 2011, p. 125.
  2. "Lisa Faulkner Plays Victoria Merrick", Holby.tv
  3. "Channel 4: Mummy Diaries- Celebs". Channel4.com. Archived from the original on 23 October 2009. Retrieved 14 November 2009.
  4. "Drama Faces - Lisa Faulkner". BBC Drama. Archived from the original on 21 July 2012. Retrieved 12 December 2008.
  5. "Spooks: The show that is James Bond on a BBC budget", The Telegraph, 4 December 2008
  6. productions/2008 Archived 27 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine Flame TV productions
  7. "Lisa Faulkner – Angela & Friends". Archived from the original on 8 November 2009.
  8. "FHM All-time Sexiest Women hall of fame". Listal. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
  9. "Biography at Angela and Friends website". Archived from the original on 8 November 2009.
  10. "Actress Lisa Faulkner takes MasterChef title". BBC News. 20 August 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
  11. "'Murdoch' mysteries revealed". TV Guide. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 28 July 2010.
  12. Harp, Justin (2 March 2017). "Celebrity MasterChef champ Lisa Faulkner joins the cast of EastEnders". Digital Spy. Hearst Magazines UK. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  13. "John Torode and Lisa Faulkner land weekend cooking show". BBC. 14 March 2019. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
  14. "Who are Lisa and Nicola from Celebrity Gogglebox? Meet the TV duo!". Reality Titbit. 5 July 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  15. Recipes from my Mother for my Daughter, Simon & Schuster 2012.
  16. "Wedding bash with Bangers and Mash". Manchester Evening News. 16 February 2007. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  17. Loose Women, 2 March 2012
  18. "Lisa Faulkner and Chris Coghill separated in 2011, Now she is happily married to John Torode". Global News 101.
  19. "John Torode roasted by BBC for saying he and fellow MasterChef host Gregg Wallace aren't friends". The Telegraph. 7 May 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
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