Lacey Amelia Turner is an English actress. She is best known for her work on Bedlam, Switch, and portraying the role of Stacey Slater on the BBC soap opera EastEnders, a role for which she has won 33 awards. She has won more British Soap Awards than any other actor in any so...
The British Soap Award for Sexiest Female, The British Soap Award for Best Young Performance, The British Soap Award for Best Exit, National Television Award for Most Popular Newcomer, The British Soap Award for Soap Bitch of the Year
Movies
Our Girl
TV Shows
EastEnders, Bedlam, Love Life
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I'd love Anne Hathaway's career. I think most people in my position would!
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Now I mostly watch TV at night, in bed after a cup of hot chocolate, and at the moment I'm really, really into The Following (2013) with Kevin Bacon.
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I'm rubbish at being me. I panic and say embarrassing things. Live interviews are the worst bit of the job.
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[on "Our Girl"] The Afghanistan scenes were actually filmed in a quarry in Leighton Buzzard with a couple of goats. It was freezing but I relished the challenge of, say, trying to get over a 12ft wall when you're only 5ft nothing. Most of the people in the film are real soldiers.
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Announced her engagement to hairdresser Matt Kaye, having been in an on-off relationship with him since June 2006 (19 September 2016).
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Ranked #19 in The 100 Greatest EastEnders (1985) Characters of All Time for her performance as Stacey Branning (2015).
Ranked #19 in the 100 Greatest EastEnders (1985) Characters of All Time for her performance as Stacey Branning (2010).
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Is one of 4 EastEnders (1985) actresses to have won a Best Dramatic Performance Award at the British Soap Awards; the others are Lindsey Coulson, Jo Joyner and Kellie Bright. Turner is the only one to have won the award three times..
Her EastEnders (1985) character Stacey Slater's wedding to Bradley Branning (Charlie Clements), dated on 1 November 2007, is ranked #6 in "The 50 Greatest EastEnders (1985) Weddings of All Time" (2010).
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Her EastEnders (1985) character Stacey Branning became the 21st woman on the soap opera to give birth. Stacey had a daughter Lily (played by Aine Garvey), born on 23 June 2010, and a son Arthur (played by an unknown baby), born on 24 December 2015.
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Has a tattoo of the word "Love" on her left thigh.
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Was in attendance at the wedding of her EastEnders (1985) co-star Scott Maslen to Estelle Rubio (6 September 2008).
Was in attendance at the funeral of her former EastEnders (1985) co-star Wendy Richard (9 March 2009).
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Has lived in Radlett, Hertfordshire since 2008.
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Attended The Sylvia Young Theatre School at the age of 10, but left after a year because of bullying.
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Her parents are Leslie and Bev (née Harvey) Turner.
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Had breast implants in March 2007 for her 19th birthday, changing her bust from a 32B to a 32D, which cost £3685.
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Is the second cousin of Philip Dowling, who also starred in EastEnders (1985), albeit briefly, as the boyfriend of Demi, the character played by Shana Swash and ironically, the one Lacey originally auditioned for.
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Did television commercials when she was younger, including one advertising Haribo sweets.