Name	Louisa Lytton
Height	5'1
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	07-Feb-1989
Place of Birth	America
Famous for

Louisa Claire Lytton (born 7 February 1989) [1] is an English actress born in Camden, living in Clerkenwell and Islington. She rose to fame in 2005 when joining BBC One soap opera EastEnders as Ruby Allen. After leaving EastEnders in late 2006, Lytton joined The Bill as PC Beth Green, who she played from May 2007 to October 2008 She also appeared on Strictly Come Dancing in late 2006. Lytton also represented the UK at the Eurovision Dance Contest 2008 in Glasgow.

Biography Louisa attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School in Marylebone, London. Louisa is close friends with her former EastEnders co-stars Kara Tointon, (Dawn Swann), Lacey Turner (Stacey Slater), and Matt Di Angelo (Deano Wicks). She is also friends with singer and Strictly Come Dancing rival Emma Bunton.[2] She is of Italian descent on her mother's side. She is in a relationship with a man named Daniel.


EastEnders

[edit] March 2005 - November 2006 Lytton made her first appearance in EastEnders on 18 March 2005, playing gangster's daughter Ruby Allen. Weeks after winning the "Sexiest Female" award at the British Soap Awards in May 2006 it was reported that Lytton would be leaving EastEnders in November 2006. On the exit of her character, Lytton had commented:[3][4] "I've really enjoyed my time at EastEnders. It has been a great experience which I will never forget but I am now looking forward to trying new things."

Lytton's final scenes were broadcast in November 2006. On 1 December 2006 Lytton appeared on the ITV1 show Loose Women and confirmed that leaving EastEnders was not her decision. In August 2008 she stated she would like to return to EastEnders once she has left 'The Bill' in October 2008.


Strictly Come Dancing

Autumn/Winter 2006

Lytton took part in the fourth series of the BBC One reality television programme Strictly Come Dancing, and at just 17 was the youngest contestant ever to have appeared on the show in the fifth series to date. Her professional dance partner was Vincent Simone. After several impressive performances she was eliminated in the quarter-finals, finishing in fourth place out of fourteen, losing out to Emma Bunton in a "dance-off" for a place in the last three. Despite this, Lytton appeared in the Christmas Special on Christmas Day with fellow contestants Mark Ramprakash, Matt Dawson and Emma Bunton, along with 2005's finalists Zoë Ball and Colin Jackson. This show was won by Jackson. Below is a scoring recap from start to finish.

Louisa began touring with Strictly on 18 January with Ex-EastEnders co-stars, Letitia Dean and Matt Di Angelo she ended the tour with 8 wins.

Strictly On Tour 2008 She was one of the former Strictly Come Dancing participants to be asked to return for Strictly On Tour which took place in early 2008 and toured the country, She was asked to return due to her personality and popularity with the audience on Strictly Come Dancing. “I absolutely loved taking part in Strictly Come Dancing and jumped at the chance to take part in the live show, and thanks to my bosses at The Bill I’ve got the chance to get back out there and this time, fingers crossed, win it for the girls!”. She won numerous times. She appeared on BBC Breakfast for a second time in mid January 2008 and a third time in September 2008.


The Bill 2007 to 2008

On 16 May 2007 Lytton first appeared in The Bill. She plays PC Beth Green on the ITV1 police drama The Bill. However this was not her first appearance on the police drama. She had previously appeared as a different minor character in one episode in 1997, coincidentally starring alongside familiar actor, Billy Murray who would later play her father in EastEnders. She is due to leave the show when her contract runs out in October 2008.


Other work/appearances

Lytton was Emma Watson's double in the film Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets[5][6][7].

Between leaving EastEnders and joining The Bill she made an appearance on the CBBC show Hider in the House as herself. She has appeared on The Paul O'Grady Show to promote her role in The Bill. She also appeared on Big Brother's Little Brother with Dermot O'leary. On 26 June 2007 she made a second appearance on lunchtime show Loose Women, this time promoting her recent addition to the cast of The Bill. Louisa also briefly appeared in Emma Bunton's video for her single Downtown for Children in Need.

On 27 August 2007, Louisa appeared on BBC's Test The Nation and was the top celebrity.

She attends numerous charity events and Movie Premiers throughout the year such as "Children's Champions" in 2007 and "Legends Ball" in 2008.

She was a member of the audience on "Happy Birthday Brucie" which celebrated TV presenter Bruce Forsyth's 80th birthday in 2008, she was invited as Bruce Forsyth is one of the presenters on Strictly Come Dancing.

Louisa Lytton was chosen as one half of the United Kingdom's entry for the Eurovision Dance Contest 2008, finishing 9th of 14 countries, Euro Dance is famous like Euro Vision for countries voting for neighbours especially on the Baltic states who bore up well, political issues also have a large effect on the contest.

Theatre work

In 2001 Lytton was on a musical production of Les Miserables and played the leading role in the musical of Annie.

She will be performing in the Peter Pan Pantomime in 2008 - 2009 at Milton Keynes Theatre.

She will perform as a sidekick to the comedian Andy Ford at the 2008 Royal Variety Performance.