Loui Batley

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Early life

Louie Anne Batley was born in Chorley on 9 June 1987. She attended Rivington Primary School[3] and Westholme Upper School in 1998 to 1999, but left due to dance commitments.

Career

Batley had minor roles prior to her role in Hollyoaks, including a part as Angus Deayton's young girlfriend Natalie in the second series of Julia Davis' award-winning black comedy Nighty Night.

Batley played the role of Sarah Barnes on Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks from 2005[4] until 2009.

Batley was due to appear in the second series of the BBC show Just the Two of Us, but was dropped after her professional singing partner Russell Watson quit the show due to health problems. She also performed the opening song on 2007's BBC Children in Need, along with co-stars Kevin Sacre, Gerard McCarthy and Summer Strallen.[5]

Batley was once a singer in the band Verity.[6]

Television

Year Show Role
1995 Jake's Progress Portia
2005 Nighty Night Natalie
2005–2009 Hollyoaks Sarah Barnes
2008–2009 Hollyoaks Later

Movies

Year Title Role
2010 Following Footsteps Maria White
2012 Tower Block Amy

Other

Year Title Notes
2012 Clover Advert

Theatre

Year Show Role
? Broadway Theatre Project Soloist
? Submerged
? The Waltz Medley
? Six Feet Under
? The Nutcracker Sugar Plum Fairy

Modelling

Year Type Designers
2007 Catwalk Nolita
? Pimlico
? Oska
? Woom Xoom
? Shirin Guild

Awards

  • Won
    • British Freestyle Champion
    • Lyrical Section
    • European Theatrical Stage Dance
      1st Place
    • Carlton TV – Britain's Best Dancer
      2003
  • Nominated
    • IDTA Tap & Ballet Awards
    • Le Classique de Danse Awards
  • Representative
    • NATD in the Grand Finals

Personal life

Batley and Simon Lawson, who played Simon Crosby in Hollyoaks, have set up an acting workshop for up and coming talent.[7] In 2009 they took on the lease of a public house, the Princess Victoria, in London's Earls Court Road.[8] It was announced via Verity and Violet's Twitter account that Batley and Lawson had got married in July 2013.[9] She gave birth to the couple's first child in January 2019. On 4 October 2020, Batley announced that she was pregnant with her second child.

Her brother, Tobias Batley, is a professional ballet dancer.[10]

References

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  1. Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1984-2004 list name at birth as 'Louie Ann Batley' there is also another listed with the same details and name but the middle name spelt as Ann(e).
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