Name	Cerrie Burnell
Height
Naionality	English
Date of Birth	30-August-1979
Place of Birth	Petts Wood, Kent
Famous for	Acting

Cerrie Burnell is an English actress, singer, playwright, and television presenter for the BBC children's channel CBeebies. Burnell was born with a right arm which ended below the elbow. Her initial appearance on CBeebies sparked a controversy about children's television presenters with physical disabilities and the apparent prejudice of complainants.

Burnell graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University, where she studied acting. She has performed in theatre in the UK, where she received favourable reviews, and in Brazil with the CTORio Political Theatre Company. She has appeared in UK television parts in Holby City, EastEnders, Grange Hill, The Bill, and Comedy Lab. She is the author of Winged - A Fairytale, a play about Violet, a one-winged fairy in a London inner city fairy community, which she also starred in when it was staged at the Tristan Bates Theatre, London in 2007. Besides acting, she has worked as a teaching assistant in a special needs school.

Burnell joined CBeebies presentation department on 26 January 2009, as a continuity presenter for Discover and Do and The Bedtime Hour, alongside Alex Winters. Within a month of her beginning co-presenting, she attracted controversy from parents complaining that the one-armed presenter was scaring children, and prompting difficult conversations to explain her disability. She and the BBC have been defended by multiple disability groups stating that the problem was with the prejudices of the parents projected on to the children.