Nicole Faraday

She has twice appeared as a guest star in best friend Dianne Pilkington's cabarets at Lauderdale House in 2005 and 20 February 2011, singing 'Who Will Love Me As I Am' and 'It's Never That Easy/I've Been Here Before' respectively. She sings this duet on Dianne's debut album Little Stories. She can also be heard on the West End cast album of Bad Girls: The Musical. In 2017, she will also feature in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Pantomime at the Palace Theatre.

Nicole appeared as the Wicked Queen in the pantomime Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at Eastbourne's Devonshire Park Theatre, from 12 December 2008 to 11 January 2009, alongside Stefan Booth and Niamh Perry from BBC's I'd Do Anything. She repeated this role at The Place theatre, Oakengates in Telford, in the pantomime Snow White, from 8 December 2015 to 3 January 2016, alongside Jeremy Edwards and Amy Reader. She sang solo with Frank Renton's Concert Brass on 10 December 2009 and again in December 2012 at the Royal Albert Hall at a charity Concert with the Stars for TV Times in aid of Leukaemia Research. She regularly performs her own cabaret at venues, such as Pizza on the Park, now known as The Pheasantry.

In October 2006, Faraday won a prestigious TMA Award for Best Supporting Performance in a Musical for her portrayal of Shell in the musical's original run at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. She was subsequently nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical at the West End Whatsonstage.com Awards 2007/8. Other notable theatre credits include An Audience with the Mafia at the Apollo Theatre, and the role of Eva Cassidy in three UK national tours of Over the Rainbow.

In 2001, she played a prostitute in the last episode of 'Orrible, alongside Johnny Vaughan and Ricky Grover. From 2002–2003 Faraday was a principal cast member of both ITV's Bad Girls and the BBC's Casualty. Faraday's television credits include recurring character Veronica in Emmerdale, The Bill, ITV's Kingdom and Doctors for the BBC. She also stars opposite Vinnie Jones, as his wife, Kim Brookes, in the 2016 vigilante thriller Kill Kane.Most recently she filmed the leading role Ms Bushnell in black comedy Ask The Cheat opposite Martin Trenaman and Nick Moran due for release in cinemas in 2019.

Nicole Faraday (born 28 July 1976), is a TMA Award-winning actress, best known for her leading roles on British television series Bad Girls, Casualty and Emmerdale.

Faraday was born in Germany on Wednesday, 28 July 1976, to British parents. Her father, a consultant doctor, was a medical officer in the Royal Air Force working on a British base in Germany at the time of her birth. The family later moved back to her mother's home town of Swanage in Dorset. Nicole attended Talbot Heath School in Bournemouth, Clayesmore School in Blandford Forum, Dorset, and went on to train in musical theatre at the Guildford School of Acting.